Top five tips for #GivingTuesday in the UK

This is a guest blog by Holly Mitchell, the #GivingTuesday Campaign Manager at CAF.  I’ll be chairing their webinar on how charities can use Facebook for #GivingTuesday on 19 November. #GivingTuesday in the UK, now less than a month away, has been a long time in...

The top 30 charity #socialceos 2014 – revealed!

They are finally here! I am so excited to share this year’s top 30 charity CEOs on social media with you. We announced the winners at our awards event last night hosted by Girlguiding. A big thank you to them for hosting us, as well as Grant Thornton, who the awards...

Can we talk about transparency?

In the wake of Dispatches, #knitgate and Panorama I recently blogged about how the sector has entered a new era of transparency for Just Giving. So it was very timely to see ActionAid UK’s new crowdsourced report on transparency and to read what Judith Davey, their...

The 2014 Charity #SocialCEOs Awards are coming!

  Huge thanks to everyone who nominated CEOs earlier this summer. We’ve been spoilt for choice with 100 amazing entries. Here’s a quick update on next steps and sponsors. What happens next? This year’s top 30 will be announced at a special event on Thursday 6...

6 tips to beat the holiday email blues

This is a guest blog from Dr Monica Seeley, founder of Mesmo Consultancy and an international expert on best email practice.  Monica has written several books and many articles on email use. Her latest book is ‘Brilliant Email’. August time always sparks the age old...

How to break the rules in charities -and make things happen

This is a guest blog from Sarah Sinnott of Catch22.  Sarah builds partnerships to create social impact at Catch22 – a social business that has been thinking differently about delivering services to vulnerable people for over 200 years. Innovation is no longer a nice...