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Take a break: five reasons why it makes no sense for charities to campaign during elections!
It’s general election season. The candidates are out on the stump, stuffing letter boxes and meeting voters. The election debates are on...
Joe Saxton
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Is a Balanced Scorecard a useful way for charities to track performance?
What is a balanced scorecard? Balanced Scorecard is a 30 year-old performance measuring concept developed by two US academics – Robert...
Joe Saxton
3 min read




Making things better: Creating a framework that improves charity expertise and standards
Making things better: creating a framework that improves expertise and standards. The idea behind this piece is to set out a framework...
Joe Saxton
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What can charities learn from dynamic pricing in the commercial sector?
(or how charities can boost the desire to give and the appeal of their cause) This is the first in a series of blogs looking at ideas...
Joe Saxton
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Where are we going?
A guide to creating strategy in charities and non-profits Introduction This report is a guide to developing strategies in non-profits and...
Joe Saxton
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A blog all about Charity podcasts by Samiksha Rai
The world is full of podcasts. Just about every self-respecting organization and journalist has a podcast now. Many are very popular....
Samiksha Rai
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Six interesting things to notice about our 2023 social media review
Here are six findings from our 2023 social media review – High Five 2023. You can read our full social media report here. Finding 1: For...
Joe Saxton
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Strategy blog 10. Five challenges and five shortcuts to creating a strategy for your charity
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...
Joe Saxton
4 min read


Strategy 9: More of the common flaws of charity strategies
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...
Joe Saxton
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Strategy blog 8:Campaigning is a logical strategic option to maximise your impact.
Strategy is about choices. Almost no charity can do everything in its mission. Charities simply aren’t large enough to reach every person...
Joe Saxton
4 min read


The Heyheyjoe charity strategy awards
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...
Joe Saxton
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The Heyheyjoe charity strategy awards
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...
Joe Saxton
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Best strategy head shots – Danny and Jamie
There are a lot of strategies with pictures of their CEOs or Chairs in various poses introducing the strategy, or talking about how...
Joe Saxton
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Best way of being held to account – Blood Cancer UK
There are lots of strategies where its hard to work how anybody, internally or externally, will know whether the goals have been met. It...
Joe Saxton
1 min read


Best for goal setting – Thames Valley Air Ambulance
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...
Joe Saxton
1 min read


Best for people – CHAS
Too many strategy documents forget about their staff. Strategies happen by magic – the elves make it all happen at night clearly. So its...
Joe Saxton
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Best context setting – Trussell Trust and SAMH
Strategies don’t happen in isolation. They happen in the context of the wider world in which an organisation is working. The external or...
Joe Saxton
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