A trusted role: The challenges of creating an effective trustee board Introduction This document is an attempt to pull together some of...

Making a difference: Five things any trustee can do to be more effective. Introduction Its not easy being a humble trustee, when you...

A charity board will usually monitor finances. But just measuring finances is a bit like just measuring the pulse and heart rate of an...

It is now over 15 years since I first became chair of a charity, and nearly 30 years since I first became a trustee of a charity. Over...

Nuggets of wisdom for the world of work. Introduction I started my first proper job at Oxfam in the Eighties. Many years later my own...

Nuggets of wisdom for the world of management. Introduction I started my first proper job at Oxfam in the Eighties. Many years later my...

Introduction Grant-makers, as I define them, are organisations who give money to other organisations, or individuals, to carry out good...

Introduction I am a very frequent user of the Charity Commission (for England & Wales) website. I typically look up a charity 5 or 6...

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....

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...

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...

Introduction Charities have amongst the strongest brands of any organisation, commercial, public or voluntary. The image projected by...

The challenges of creating an effective trustee board Introduction This document is an attempt to pull together some of my experiences of...

Why overseas charities face a difficult decade Having secured the 0.7% of aid target for the world’s poor, overseas aid charities have...

Investigating the response of charities to frontline service cuts Introduction Local authorities run many services that charities care...

Ten nuggets on how the public think their ideal charity should spend its money Introduction Last year we asked the public what concerns...

What has happened to children’s charities over the last decade? Introduction Over the last 5-10 ten years, children’s charities have...

Taking corporate partnerships into new dimensions Introduction The charity world has a conflicted attitude towards companies. There are...

This is our second look at the world of grants fundraising. We first spoke to fundraisers to understand charities’ perspectives, then for...

Useful stuff on how grant-making works For this report, we interviewed 21 grant-makers. These range in size from grant- makers awarding...