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August 19, 2022
How Fresh to the Sector has helped me settle into and succeed as a Fundraising Officer
Written by Emma Rolinson My name is Emma and I’ve worked as an Area Fundraising Officer for Acorns Children’s Hospice for the past six months. A parent never imagines their child will be diagnosed with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition. But when the unimaginable…
July 1, 2022
How To Reduce Your Charity’s Reliance On Third-Party Platforms
Written by Nikki Bell The start to 2022 has been a constant blow to social media fundraisers. With privacy updates, cookies on the way out, ad favouritism (and so many to compete with), the rising cost of living coupled with dwindling free time, the…
June 16, 2022
Why I’m leaving my job in international development
I Co-Founded a small international development charity when I was fresh out of university, age 21. I had visited Kenya as a volunteer a few times as a teenager and I returned home filled with rage and sorrow at the injustice of what I had seen. I didn’t feel it or know it at the time, but looking back 14 years later, I was peak White Saviour.
June 6, 2022
Small Charities Are The Future
Life is tough at the moment, and it’s getting tougher for many. I set up my own business against the backdrop of COVID. In fact, weirdly it was fuelled by COVID. As charities really started to think about doing things differently, rather than just talking about it. The world is
changing.
May 26, 2022
Fundraising Strategy – the nuts, the bolts and what works!
For May’s exclusive Members Clinic we were joined by the always amazing Richard Sved. He gave us a whistle stop tour of the book he has co-authored with Dr Claire Routley – Fundraising Strategy
May 19, 2022
Beat Burnout – 5 signs of stress
Back in January, I wrote an article about my experience of burn
April 26, 2022
How to succeed in fundraising innovation – 7 key pillars
Guest bloggers, Anne Race & Henry Rowling of Flying Cars Innovation, share their gems of knowledge to help you innovate, and most importantly, succeed.
March 11, 2022
How to become a better fundraiser with Members March
Written by Mandi Hine Why Members March? What is Members March, and why should you get involved?After all, you’re already super slammed, pulled in multiple directions and wondering why (or how) you should try and make time for one more thing. I hope my…
March 4, 2022
What equality, diversity & inclusion in charity conferences looks like: 7 things to remember
Written by Nikki Bell Conferences, both online and in-person, are set to make a comeback in 2022. Already we’re seeing a rise in content available and excitement for the opportunity to learn and network to plan for a, hopefully, uninterrupted year of fundraising….
February 11, 2022
Trust magic…What Corporate Partnerships Managers can learn from Trust Fundraisers
Guest blogger Caroline Danks of LarkOwl lifts the lid on cross-disciplinary learnings that can take corporate fundraising to the next level. There are so many traits shared by fundraising across the board. On the whole (barring a few notable exception who shall not be…
February 1, 2022
A letter to recruiting managers, yours sincerely – a job seeker
Dear recruiting managers,
I write this to you as something needs to change with the traditional way of recruiting.
This sector is great, but whilst we champion wellbeing, diversity and fairness externally in our charitable work, we are failing those who seek to support these efforts as potential employees.
February 1, 2022
Redundancy & furlough – the effect on events
I couldn’t sleep on Thursday night. I started replaying (in my mind) a conversation from the Events Fundraising Virtual Summit session I ran that afternoon. It was a 40 minute round table session of sharing what impact redundancy and furlough has had on events and events fundraisers. Many stories and experiences were bravely shared and it really struck me that for many there hasn’t been a proper opportunity to reflect on the experience of redundancy and furlough and to share and hear from others in similar boats. And a lot of this is still very raw.