28 Jul 2012 | Uncategorized
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I watched the opening ceremony last night. But I liked what I saw. From James Bond to the Queen, from punk to Dizzee Rascal, from the Industrial Revolution to the NHS, Danny Boyle took us on a whistle stop tour of highlights...
15 Jun 2012 | Uncategorized
I bet most of you hadn’t heard of Argyll and Bute council this morning. But by lunchtime they were all over the internet. And lunch is at the heart of this story. Martha Payne, a 9 year old from Argyll in Scotland, began blogging about her school dinners on her...
20 May 2012 | Uncategorized
Next week (on 30 May) I’m off to a Charity Comms workshop on charity communications strategies. It promises to be a very useful event and it’s got me thinking about what I’ve learned over the years from working on charity communication strategies. So I’d like to share...
24 Apr 2012 | Uncategorized
Stakeholder management has been very much on my mind this week in the run up to the Charity Leaders’ Exchange event which I am chairing this Thursday. As I blogged about last week, how you take people with you in difficult times- whether they are funders,...
18 Apr 2012 | Uncategorized
You can’t please all of the people all of the time. That’s a given. But particularly so at the moment. In an era of cuts, restructures and mergers charities are being faced with some hard choices. So when your charity has to make difficult decisions, how do you take...
15 Mar 2012 | Uncategorized
Unless you live on the moon, you probably know that a resignation letter from a banker at Goldman Sachs has become the latest internet sensation. Greg Smith, an executive director, announced his resignation in the New York Times. He attacked the culture at the bank,...
