UK charities and ‘The Overhead Myth’

Sorry that this blog has been a bit quiet for the last few weeks. I’ve been busy moving house and starting my new job as a marketing and digital communications consultant. I’ve got some great projects in the pipeline and am working with some fabulous people. It is...

Are your online tools meeting your offline targets?

An increasing amount of CEOs and other nonprofit leaders have been asking for my advice recently about their use of social media, covering everything from Twitter to blogging. This topic is a passion of mine and I’ll be speaking about it at an event in July. Online...

On charity marketing and volunteering

Lots of you have been asking about the launch of the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s charity interest group, which launched on Tuesday with a special event at Cass Business School. I’m on the advisory board for the group, which brings together professionals with an...

We need to talk about leadership

Last week an article in Third Sector about leadership caught my eye. In it Geraldine Kilbride, a business psychologist and leadership behaviour specialist from London Business School, warned charities that their leadership is a decade behind the private sector....