📣 Have you booked your place for the HELOA National Conference 2027? This is your opportunity to: ✔️Connect with colleagues across the sector ✔️Share best practice, innovations and insights ✔️Be inspired by keynote speakers, including Penny Eccles, Nicola Rawlins & Paul Gratrick ✔️Take part in workshops, networking, and the Business Expo ✔️Celebrate achievements through the HELOA Awards Join us in Newcastle-upon-Tyne for three days of collaboration, insight, and inspiration: 📅 Wednesday 13 - Friday 15 January 2027 👉 Learn more and book your place by clicking the link in our bio #HELOAConference #HELOA2027

🖥️ Join us this November for the HELOA Professional Development Conference, Recruiting the Next Generation: Personal Statement and the Age of AI. With insights from UCAS, UPFRONT, and universities across the sector, this online event will help colleagues in recruitment, outreach, and marketing better understand how students are engaging with AI and what it means for future application support. ⏰ Bookings close on 4 November at 4pm. If the conference reaches capacity before this time the conference will close before this deadline. Please book early to avoid disappointment - link in our bio 🔗

It’s nearly the end of September, which means you are now well into the new academic year! New year = new you. Make sure to set your own goals, take a look at your DPR’s, and prepare yourselves for the upcoming academic year. What better way to prioritise yourself than to book on to our Networking and Practitioner Wellbeing Conference; held online on the 27th October, it’s full of useful information on how to find your balance and wellness at work. Click the link in our bio to take a look at our fantastic programme and book on now 🙌🏻

⭐Speaker highlight for HELOA Professional Development Conference!⭐ 📅Wednesday 11 November 2026 🕘10:00 - 15:30 💻Online 🔈One of our speakers is Lauren Currie, Founder and CEO of Upfront. She is running a session on 'Preparing Students for a World that Doesn't Exist Yet and here is a little but about her: Lauren Currie is the Founder and CEO of UPFRONT; an organisation dedicated to changing confidence, visibility, and power for 10 million women. UPFRONT work with organisations across the private, public and third sector to convert talent into high performance. Their flagship product, The Bond, unlocks confidence at scale to drive predictable growth. Lauren is also the bestselling author of Be UPFRONT 24 Rules for Life Changing Confidence and children's book Taylor Meets The Trick that teaches young children and the grown ups around them about the patriarchy. Lauren's work has been featured in The Guardian, Design Week, and Creative Review. She was awarded an OBE for her services to design and diversity and has been named one of the “woman changing the world under 30” by ELLE magazine, “one of the UK’s top businesswomen under 35” by Management Today, and "one of the UK's top 50 Creative Leaders" by Creative Review. 💬Plus, opportunities to network with colleagues from across the sector, share ideas and expand your professional network. View the programme and book your place at the conference 👇 🔗https://www.heloa.ac.uk/training/professional-development-conference-cpd/