A CHARITY leader from Clacks will fly the flag for the county at two international conferences next month.

Resonate Together's Angela Beardsley will be at the Euclid Network Impact Summit in The Hague at the end of March.

Just two days after that event is finished, she is due to chair a panel at the Horasis Global Meeting in Portugal, networking with people such as the president of the Institute for Development Impact in the USA.

The former opportunity came about as a result of her involvement with international knowledge-exchange programme PeerEx, which last year saw her welcome a delegation from Russia at Resonate in Alloa (pictured), followed by an event in London and a visit to her exchange peers in the near-future.

The upcoming conference in Portugal follows Resonate's recent partnership announcement with Horasis, a global collaboration project aiming to create positive economic action for communities.

Speaking about the summit in The Hague, which is attracting more than 150 participants from around 20 countries, Angela said: "Our aim is to build relationships so that we can see if there is any way of partnering organisations, ideas and purposes that come into line with people from different countries.

"I'm dead excited to go, you feel totally honoured and it's an incredible opportunity for our work to be considered as part of an international event."

Angela has a decade of experience in working at a grassroots level and she knows well the complexities and challenges present in localised communities, whether that be poverty, isolation or addiction.

She added: "It's really important to develop our communication powers so that we can connect these stories to the policies of each government so we can build meaningful partnerships that enable each of our communities in whatever way we need locally."

Resonate can offer its experience on the international scene on shared leadership and community building, particularly, how an organisation that is purely led by volunteers can get around to doing a high volume of work.

Angela said: "Nobody is paid to do anything here.

"It's all done by kindness and connected through [our belief] in the wellbeing economy."

At the Portugal event, Angela will be chairing the social enterprise panel discussion.

She explained the key idea: "For a community to flourish individuals need to be valued and paid for their skills and we have a lack of that in Clackmannanshire."

Angela added: "For nearly 10 years I've been listening to local people of all ages, of diversity, from people who were born here to refugees.

"And the amazing, wonderful qualities, skills and experience people possess are being knocked away by the intense hopelessness that people feel because there isn't a driven local economy.

"If we can stimulate that situation to enable people to be excited about job opportunities in Clackmannanshire it will help keep the families and communities together and it will help to lift us out of poverty."