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I listened to a charity trustee the other day, saying how we shouldn’t talk about charities being competitors. They should be in...

A few weeks after the UK general election, now is a good time to reflect on what the charity sector can learn from the campaign. This...

What is a balanced scorecard? Balanced Scorecard is a 30 year-old performance measuring concept developed by two US academics – Robert...

Making things better: creating a framework that improves expertise and standards. The idea behind this piece is to set out a framework...

This strategy blog, no 10, looks at some of the practical challenges that come out of making a strategy, and some of the shortcuts, or...

After strategy blog 6 lots of readers contacted me with other examples of aspects of charity strategy they don’t like. So here are some...

Strategy is about choices. Almost no charity can do everything in its mission. Charities simply aren’t large enough to reach every person...

Here are the Heyheyjoe charity strategy awards. I have read a whole bunch of charity strategies (over 100) and this is a collection of my...

There are a lot of strategies with pictures of their CEOs or Chairs in various poses introducing the strategy, or talking about how...

At the heart of any strategy is the setting of goals and how they will be delivered. Too many strategies have a few lofty aspirations...

Strategies don’t happen in isolation. They happen in the context of the wider world in which an organisation is working. The external or...

Strategy documents are full of values. In my view they are often one of the most useless sections. There are only so many ways that an...

The health and disability charities are particularly good at making clear how beneficiaries are in involved in the development of their...

Strategies can get to be really long documents, so all credit to those organisations who try and sum things up on a page. Two very...

One of the challenges of any strategy is how to present it to staff, volunteers, and stakeholders. Blood Cancer UK has tackled this by...

Facial Palsy UK is a tiny charity with an income of under £100k a year. But its strategy is clearly set out in a word document: no...

The Cherie Blair Foundation is a £2million charity that focus on women entrepreneurs. It is probably the best single strategy I read....

The lifeboats is my favourite large charity strategy (RNLI has over £200 million of income), although it is a little on the long side at...

I have read over 120 charity strategies now and here are some of the most common flaws I have found in them (these are my personal views...