
How to create a name for a fundraising product
Once upon a time we called every fundraising product ‘athon’. Spellathon. Danceathon. Aerobathon. Easy world then, but now naming a product of activity can make or break its success, especially […]
Once upon a time we called every fundraising product ‘athon’. Spellathon. Danceathon. Aerobathon. Easy world then, but now naming a product of activity can make or break its success, especially […]
I tell a story in my workshops about the 9 month fundraising year. It goes like this. You start the year shattered. Its been a drain. So, time for some […]
We fail community fundraisers. All the time, every day, for years and years. Its time we were honest and did something about it. I’m not saying community fundraisers are angels […]
Local story. Big lesson. The village charity committee wanted to hold a meeting to plan the summer event. In one of the pubs, the secretary asked the bar staff if […]
If ever there was a time for a national, co-ordinated, mentoring volunteering movement, the time is now. But a quick web search tells a very different story. Take a look […]
In 1941 a lone german bomber dropped a bomb on the jam factory in my village. Apparently mistaking it for a munitions factory, the bomb succeeded in showering the locals […]