Supervising charity staff and volunteers: You could be using a “Happiness Score”!
If you run a small or emerging charity, there’s a good chance supervision looks something like this: an occasional catch-up, squeezed in between everything else, that only really happens when something has gone wrong.
Finding Your Conference or Event Sponsors: A New Free Guide for Small Charities.
If you’ve ever thought “I’d love to run a conference, but where would we get the money?” — this post is for you.
Your Story (or Theory) of Change: A Simple Guide for Small Charities
You know that feeling when someone at a networking event starts talking about your “Theory of Change?” and your brain freezes?
Finding the Joy in Impact: Why the New SORP Requirements Could Be Your Best News Yet.
From January 1, 2026, something important shifts in the charity world. The updated Charities Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) now mandates impact reporting as a “must” for all charities. For some, this news lands like yet another compliance burden. But what if we told you this could be where the real joy of charity work lives?
Your Friend Asked You to Be a Charity Trustee: Here’s Five Questions you should Ask
Trustees (sometimes known as Board Members or Directors) are the lifeblood of UK charities both large and small. However, especially for small charities, we hear too often that becoming a Trustee happened because of ‘who you know’ rather than ‘what you know’. What do you really need to ask?
Some thoughts about artificial intelligence
I may be late to the party (fashionably so I hope). I’ve begun thinking about what policies and guidance are going to be needed and might work best for community-led charities using AI. So I asked ChatGPT!
Jargon: Use it or Lose it?
Sometimes we feel surrounded by people speaking in jargon, acronyms and terms which everyone else seems to understand, and working from very different assumptions to our own. It can feel like you woke up on a different planet! I know how easy it is to get overwhelmed by all the encoded terminology. You can start to feel, well, a bit small.
Writing Reports Iceberg Style
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
― Ernest Hemingway
