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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...
Joe Saxton
8 min read


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...
Joe Saxton
7 min read


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...
Joe Saxton
6 min read


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....
Joe Saxton
9 min read


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
5 min read


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
9 min read


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...
Joe Saxton
12 min read


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...
Joe Saxton
14 min read


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...
Joe Saxton
5 min read


Challenging cuts
Investigating the response of charities to frontline service cuts Introduction Local authorities run many services that charities care...
Joe Saxton
17 min read


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...
Joe Saxton
6 min read


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...
Joe Saxton
11 min read


In Good Company
Taking corporate partnerships into new dimensions Introduction The charity world has a conflicted attitude towards companies. There are...
Joe Saxton
7 min read


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...
Joe Saxton
7 min read


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...
Joe Saxton
1 min read


Just the Ticket
Public attitudes towards the regulation of charity lotteries This is the report on new research, commissioned and carried out by...
Joe Saxton
1 min read


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...
Joe Saxton
4 min read
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