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Howard Lake
@howardlake.bsky.social
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Exploring growing giving on a massive scale (founder Giving X Ltd). Digital fundraising entrepreneur: founded UK Fundraising (fundraising.co.uk | @ukfundraising.bsky.social) in 1994, sold it in 2022. Co-founder GoodJobs, Fundraising Camp, BarcampNonprofits
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Travelling on the Shinkansen from Osaka to Hiroshima with the family.
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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From Osaka to Nara with the family to see its famed herd of deer.
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Kura sushi restaurant in Osaka.
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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“Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Shanghai airport”.

Orient Express, The Concerts in China, Jean-Michel Jarre, 1982

Welcome to Shanghai airport, 2025. I’ve taken my time…
Shanghai airport terminal 1
November 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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A very old house!
A model dinosaur about 12 foot tall outside a half-timbered house against a blue sky. The T Rex type dinosaur is opening its mouth as if it were roaring.
October 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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The Central and Eastern European Fundraising Conference is as good as I’d heard. I enjoyed presenting a masterclass there last week on Great Fundraising with my @revolutionise.bsky.social colleague Nyasha Njela.
Great Fundraising Organizations book at the CEntral and Eastern European Fundraising Conference in Bratislava.
October 14, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Appropriate.

And you could call it a stock image…
Screenshot from Sainsburys of pink flowers. And sign below “currently out of stock”.
October 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Of course, M. Toulouse-Lautrec. We have a room for you.
Two toilets in one cubicle. Vienna airport
October 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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The @revolutionise.bsky.social team at last week’s Great Fundraising Masterclass in London.

A much-anticipated opportunity for me to present alongside Nyasha Njela, and for much of the global team to be present in the same room (country!) At the same time.
Eight people side by side, all team members at Revolutionise, in front of a screen saying ‘Great Fundraising Masterclass, London’
September 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Colour me delighted!

On an office floor in London.

No filter or editing at all.
A rainbow on the floor from the prism effect inside a London office.
September 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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This is your chance to join Scotland’s biggest fundraising event of the year. With less than one month to go, tickets for the Scottish Fundraising Conference and Awards Dinner are still available.

@ciofundraising.bsky.social Scotland

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Scottish Fundraising Conference 2025
September 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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One of the things I love about serving on the Fundraising.AI Advisory Council is being part of a community that’s shaping what responsible and beneficial AI really looks like for nonprofits.

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Fundraising AI Global Summit. 50+ sessions. The best conference to help nonprofits implement human-centred AI. Register now.
August 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Out in August, Someone’s Gotta Give, a debut novel set in the wild, wonderful, weird world of the UK philanthropic sector.

By Scotland-based Cuban-American Chair at IG Advisors Alisha Fernandez Miranda who has worked for 20 years in the UK NFP sector:

Pre-order:

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/some...
Pre-order now. August 5, 2025. Cover Someone's Gotta Give book by Alisha Fernandez Miranda. Background of London buildings including Westminster Cathedral, St Paul's Cathedral and the Elizabeth Tower with Big Ben at the top. A light yellow background colour behind all.
June 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Elevated Edinburgh.
May 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Looking forward to 'Re-Imagining Event Fundraising: Innovation and opportunities in donor-led giving' on Wed 4th June at midday, from Givewheel.
Free webinar. Hosted by Givewheel. Re-imaging Event Fundraising. Innovation and opportunities in donor-led giving. Three speakers - Phil Barden, Linda Minnis and Nick Rusling. 4 June 2025. 12.00 45 minutes. Zoom. Free.
May 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Thou shalt not drone.
Sign outside Ely Cathdral reading ‘No drones please’. “For the welfare of the public, the building and the wildlife, operating drones around the Cathedral precincts is strictly prohibited”.
May 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I think a colon after ‘slow’ might make sense. Otherwise that is a pretty sweeping generalisation.

Taken on the Essex Way.
A woman walking away from the camera on the Essex Way, a wide path with trees above and to the side. In the right foreground is a sign “slow walkers on track”.
May 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Off to the Middlewick Ranges in southern Colchester to listen to nightingales yesterday evening. One of Jane's Walk Colchester’s events. Joined by 70+ others.

#JanesWalks
A line of 30/40 people walking across a field from left to right. One in a wheelchair and another with a dog.
May 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Walking the Essex Way again, this time past Coggeshall towards Cressing and White Notley.
An oak leaf with dew drops on it lies in the foreground on the earth path route of the Essex Way. Shot from near ground level the photo shows the path receding into the distance, framed by grass and on one side a hedge.
May 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Funding for charities supporting young women’s mental health is now available.

Explore The Pilgrim Trust's programme to improve young women’s access to mental health services in North East England and Yorkshire and the Humber

www.thepilgrimtrust.org.uk/young-womens...
Pilgrim Trust's infographic with details of its Young Women in Mind programme of grants. Young Women in Mind Programme opens 12 May 2025 Read our funding guidelines Find out more about funding criteria and eligibility. Join a webinar Sign-up to one of our webinars in May. Apply Eligibility Quiz Stage one deadline: 7 July 2025 Stage two deadline: 22 August 2025 Award decision date: End November 2025
May 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Here is the cuckoo.
May 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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A bluebell-bedecked solo cycle ride in Birch, Abberton and Fingringhoe, with cuckoos.
A country path with signpost. Another country path through lush bushes and a finger post. Bluebells and in oak tree along a footpath. Honeysuckle in the grass beside a footpath and hedge.
May 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Nominations are now open for the Scottish Fundraising Awards 2025. The awards celebrate the inspiring individuals, teams and campaigns driving positive change across Scotland.

The deadline for nominations is 10.00 on 9 June 2025.

yve.eventsair.com/Presentation...

Headline sponsor: THINK
Scottish Fundraising Awards logo - text on an angled saltire, although rotated anti-clockwise a little, and with a yellow/black filter.
May 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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The @easyfundraising.bsky.social and Tesco £5,000 community pledge is back, benefiting five community organisations or charities across the UK.

Find out more on @ukfundraising's insight & more newsletter on LinkedIn:

www.linkedin.com/pulse/tescos...
easyfundraising and TESCO logos. The £5,000 pledge to provide a little help to your organisation. Five chances to win £1,000!
May 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Snail mail.
Two first class Royal Mail stamps with a photo of a garden snail on them. The description ‘Garden Snail’ appears in white text to the bottom left of the image. In the top right is the bust of King Charles III above the text 1st, again in white.
April 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM