31 Oct 2025 | Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Digital Governance, Digital Leadership, Digital Skills, Digital Strategy
Over the summer I had the privilege of facilitating the Charity AI Leadership Accelerator programme in collaboration with Microsoft, where we trained over 100 leaders from small and large charities. One of the most inspiring parts of the programme was hearing directly...21 Oct 2025 | Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Digital Fundraising
We chat to Chris Khalaf, CEO of Exquitech, a UK-based Microsoft Partner, in collaboration with Charity Excellence, about The Furry Fundraiser – a free AI-powered assistant built to support fundraising and capacity-building for UK charities. (Visit the Charity...16 Oct 2025 | Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Digital Governance, Digital Leadership, Digital Strategy
These speaking notes are based on Zoe Amar’s presentation at NCVO’s Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 15 October 2025. The text below has been edited for clarity and is not a word for word transcript. You can read more about the event on Third Sector and...8 Aug 2025 | Digital Leadership, Diversity and inclusion
It’s been a year since the UK riots, when we saw racist and Islamophobic violence on our streets. At the time, I took great comfort from the books I was reading, which we recommended to charity leaders. In this blog I’ll be talking about three books I’ve read...15 Jun 2025 | Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Digital Skills
We talk to Zoë Colosimo, COO at Neighbourly, an organisation connecting businesses and communities for social good. Zoë tells us about Neighbourly’s fantastic Ai123 campaign supporting small charities and communities to understand the basics of artificial intelligence...21 May 2025 | Charity comms and PR
We chat to Rob Dyson*, a PR and comms consultant with over two decades of experience, including everything from strategic media relations to risk and reputational management, copywriting to social media, and strategies to internal comms. Phew, and that’s just...17 Apr 2025 | Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Digital Governance, Digital Leadership, Digital Skills, Digital Strategy
Rethink Mental Illness and Mental Health UK have blazed a trail in adopting AI by launching a pioneering policy, organisation-wide training, and a cross-functional steering group – empowering staff to innovate. Their goal is to build an AI-native workforce, enhancing...9 Apr 2025 | Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Digital Governance, Digital Skills, Digital Strategy
By Nissa Ramsay, Think Social Tech The 2025 Charity Digital Skills Report survey is live and you can complete the survey here until 9am on Monday 28th April. With responses coming in daily, we hope we will reach 635 charities again this year. Our full report will...31 Mar 2025 | Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Digital Governance, Digital Skills, Digital Strategy
It’s been quite a busy few months in the charity digital and AI space, hasn’t it? I thought it might be helpful to share some developments that are shaping how our sector engages with technology. From research opportunities to collaborative initiatives and...16 Dec 2024 | Digital Leadership, Digital Skills, Digital Strategy
Is it game over for X? In the last few weeks we’ve seen a mass exodus from X to Bluesky. At the time of writing, the latter has grown to 25 million users, whilst X (formerly Twitter) has lost 2.7 million users in two months. For me, this feels like something...