Thinking of starting your own charity?
Starting a charity in the UK can be a challenging, if not rewarding, process. Charities are organisations that exist to benefit the...
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- Mar 15
- 3 min
Small charities are exhausted
That’s not to say that larger charities aren’t feeling the strain at the moment, I’m just hoping to paint a picture of how the third sector.
- Mar 8
- 3 min
Opening a charity bank account
Whilst you can open an account online in minutes for personal use, it gets much harder when you’re opening one for a registered charity
- Mar 1
- 4 min
Are entrepreneurs harming charity shops?
The premise of a charity shop is thus: the general public donates their unwanted items and the shop sells them at a low/affordable price.
- Feb 22
- 4 min
Corporate Volunteering Brings A Lot Of Benefits
Corporate volunteering is one way in which employers and employees can give back (and get something back!).
- Feb 15
- 3 min
Will the third sector miss Amazon Smile?
The global brand recently announced that it was withdrawing its Amazon Smile service. An underrated and often overlooked fundraising tool.
- Feb 8
- 4 min
Social isolation in rural areas
Diminishing social care services have left elderly people in particular isolated from networks of support.
- Jan 25
- 3 min
Weird, or wonderful?!
From pizza slices to sex toys, charities constantly receive donations of wild oddities that probably shouldn't ever go through their doors.
- Jan 18
- 3 min
Too many or too few cooks…
trustee on every board has been unique. Given that the very nature of a human being is to be individual.
- Jan 11
- 3 min
LadBaby’s backlash
When LadBaby (real name Mark Hoyle) and his wife, Roxanne, launched their first charity single five years ago, they received plenty of...
- Dec 28, 2022
- 3 min
Needs versus funds
In February, Alan Williams became a champion of his community in Dorset. The local bus company, FirstGroup, ran a Sunday service; however..
- Dec 21, 2022
- 3 min
Faith charities
Their religion is often at the forefront of their fundraising applications—but is this more of a hindrance than a help?
- Dec 14, 2022
- 4 min
Charity shops of the future?
The revenue charity shops saw during the pandemic was up from that of previous years, and this trend has continued.
- Nov 30, 2022
- 3 min
What does being a charity trustee entail?
Many charities also desire trustees that have certain skillsets on their board, to help plug any skills gaps between volunteers...
- Nov 9, 2022
- 3 min
Volunteer boundaries
In this economy, with a number of retirees returning to work, just so that they can pay their bills, volunteers are becoming a rarity.
- Nov 2, 2022
- 4 min
Unnecessary layers…
I’m suggesting that there are too many layers of management in the third sector. There's very little left for the people at the bottom.
- Oct 26, 2022
- 4 min
Direct Debit donations
With how fast tech is developing us into a cashless society, it's no surprise notes and coins are becoming the way of the dodo with payments
- Oct 18, 2022
- 3 min
What the country needs is stability
One of the many fallouts from the country’s precarious political position is that we’re experiencing one of the worst cost-of-living crises
- Oct 11, 2022
- 3 min
Things are getting desperate
I recently hypothesised about what life would be like without charities, given that they plug the gaps in many frontline public services.
- Oct 4, 2022
- 3 min
What does it mean to be a business’s Charity of The Year?
The charity benefits from a higher profile and more credibility via the business’s network. It typically received a financial boost
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