A Job Lot Part 2
Nuggets of wisdom for the world of management. Introduction I started my first proper job at Oxfam in the Eighties. Many years later my...
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The strategic choices of grant-makers
Introduction Grant-makers, as I define them, are organisations who give money to other organisations, or individuals, to carry out good...
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The CharityCommission website:the good, not so good and downright terrible search function
Introduction I am a very frequent user of the Charity Commission (for England & Wales) website. I typically look up a charity 5 or 6...
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How to build awareness for a charity
I have spent the last 20 years trying to help charities measure their brands, their awareness, and the impact of the work that they do....
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Multiple reasons to recruit a new trustee
For many charities, it might be said that there is one main reason to appoint a trustee – for their skills and expertise. This is a poor...
Joe Saxton
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A Blueprint for Restoring the Sector’s Reputation
Introduction The charity sector has had 12 months unlike any other it has ever seen. We have been under the spotlight in the eyes of the...
Joe Saxton
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A strong charity brand comes from strong beliefs and values
Introduction Charities have amongst the strongest brands of any organisation, commercial, public or voluntary. The image projected by...
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A Trusted Role:
The challenges of creating an effective trustee board Introduction This document is an attempt to pull together some of my experiences of...
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Awkward development:
Why overseas charities face a difficult decade Having secured the 0.7% of aid target for the world’s poor, overseas aid charities have...
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Challenging cuts
Investigating the response of charities to frontline service cuts Introduction Local authorities run many services that charities care...
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Who cares about admin?
Ten nuggets on how the public think their ideal charity should spend its money Introduction Last year we asked the public what concerns...
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Child’s Play:
What has happened to children’s charities over the last decade? Introduction Over the last 5-10 ten years, children’s charities have...
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In Good Company
Taking corporate partnerships into new dimensions Introduction The charity world has a conflicted attitude towards companies. There are...
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Inside the mind of a grant-maker - Executive Executive Summary
This is our second look at the world of grants fundraising. We first spoke to fundraisers to understand charities’ perspectives, then for...
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Inside the mind of a grant-maker:
Useful stuff on how grant-making works For this report, we interviewed 21 grant-makers. These range in size from grant- makers awarding...
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Just the Ticket
Public attitudes towards the regulation of charity lotteries This is the report on new research, commissioned and carried out by...
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Highlights from our 2017 survey on raising funds from grant-making trusts
Charities valued unrestricted funds twice as much as restricted funds for a £100k grant. We asked respondents to imagine they had just...
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