It’s a challenging time to be a Fundraising Director; of course there’s the usual pressure to deliver income for today and tomorrow, but in addition there is also increasing media and consumer scepticism towards how charities fundraise and spend their money. This means that charities need to work hard to regain the “right to ask”. Read more about leading change[…]

I’ve probably worked with somewhere close to 100 different organisations, from very small charities such as Game Conservancy Trust to big Corporates such as Microsoft – and everything in between! One of my consistent observations is that processes, procedures, authority and empowerment of individuals is directly related to how confident the leaders of the organisation Read more about Organisational Confidence[…]

Tony Benn died nearly 10 years ago, you may or may not agree with his politics but this quote is great. Although it wasn’t intended as such (it was a comment celebrating an individual, Samuel Plimsoll and what he campaigned for) it is a great piece of insight into people and how we behave with Read more about New Ideas[…]

A great article (essay!), if you’ve ever doubted the potential of “nudge” marketing, the power of big data and the influence and the control that ownership of this data gives then read this by Robert Epstein. https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-internet-flips-elections-and-alters-our-thoughts

There’s a stream of data that clearly and unsurprisingly shows us that trust in charities has decreased and is at a low point (although the relatively recent NFP research suggests it has gone up a little recently). However paradoxically there is also data from some individual charities which shows that their supporters have very high Read more about Trust and charities – what we really need to understand[…]