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Lucinda Rouse
@lrouse.bsky.social
Journalist @thirdsector.co.uk‬
Podcast host: The Third Sector Podcast, When Charity Goes Wrong & The End of Charity https://podfollow.com/charity/view
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"There is discomfort. The political agenda for the sector is becoming more complex."

Laura Kerby tells @lrouse.bsky.social how @prostatecanceruk.bsky.social is navigating racist commentary to its message that one in four black men will get prostate cancer.

🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/498P7Gf
November 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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"It's about giving space to organisations that are on the front line delivering services and have been around a lot longer than we have"

Leicia Feare tells @lrouse.bsky.social about how @mission44.bsky.social convenes stakeholders to work on its campaigns.

🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/3JzgiQr
November 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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"When Lewis speaks, people listen. But with that recognition comes some challenges."

Leicia Feare tells @lrouse.bsky.social about @mission44.bsky.social's work to build its own profile when the primary media interest is invariably on its founder, Lewis Hamilton.

🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/3JzgiQr
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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“This place is uncommonly happy. And the unifying purpose that we all share motivates everyone to want the RNLI to be even better tomorrow than it is today.”

@lrouse.bsky.social speaks to Peter Sparkes, chief executive of the RNLI, about change, community and customer-centric approaches
Peter Sparkes: We can’t take the RNLI’s relevance for granted
Lucinda Rouse hears from the chief executive of the lifeboat charity about change, community and customer-centric approaches
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November 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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✍️ How can charities seize enterprise opportunities?

From running nurseries to building 8,000 bird boxes, @lrouse.bsky.social hears from four organisations that have taken money-making into their own hands
Analysis: How can charities seize enterprise opportunities?
From running nurseries to building 8,000 bird boxes, Lucinda Rouse hears from four organisations that have taken money-making into their own hands
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September 29, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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🎧 Podcast: Juggling innovation with the daily grind of service delivery

@lrouse.bsky.social and Dami Adewale hear how Young Lives vs Cancer is carving out time and space to work on long-term innovative solutions as a charity supporting the immediate and urgent needs of people in crisis
Third Sector: Juggling innovation with the daily grind of service delivery
Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Helen McShane, director of research, innovation and systems change at Young Lives vs Cancer.Helen explains how Young Lives vs Cancer came to launch an i...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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"Trustees need to know, if they don't already, the pressure that third sector leaders are facing around the country right now."

@markrusselluk.bsky.social on the important role for trustee boards in promoting the wellbeing of senior leadership teams.

🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/4mgVYk7
September 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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"It’s a question I spent a considerable amount of time pondering during the development of Third Sector’s latest podcast documentary, When Charity Goes Wrong" - @lrouse.bsky.social
Analysis: What do Kids Company, Mermaids and the Captain Tom Foundation have in common?
Lucinda Rouse considers some of the parallels between the three charities explored in Third Sector’s recent limited podcast series
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July 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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“How did it get in there in the first place?”

@lrouse.bsky.social asks Hannah Ingram-Moore how the Captain Tom Foundation came to be included in the planning application for an outbuilding on the family’s land, without the trustees' knowledge

🎧 When Charity Goes Wrong: bit.ly/4kFvlo5
July 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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🎧 New podcast episode!

@lrouse.bsky.social and Dami Adewale are joined by Gary Laybourne @coachcore.org.uk to find out how charities can take advantage of apprenticeship schemes

Listen here: bit.ly/4lyjk4s
July 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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🎧 OUT NOW: When Charity Goes Wrong, Ep. 3: Mermaids

In the final episode in our limited podcast series, @lrouse.bsky.social explores the impact of being under inquiry and the challenges that come with working in a polarising charitable cause area
The End of Charity: When Charity Goes Wrong, Ep. 3: Mermaids
This episode contains a reference to suicide in the first two minutes.In November 2022, the transgender youth support charity Mermaids was in crisis. Caught up in a media storm over its chest binde...
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June 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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🎧 OUT NOW: When Charity Goes Wrong, Ep.2 - The Captain Tom Foundation

@lrouse.bsky.social explores the blurred lines between Captain Sir Tom Moore’s family and the charity named after him, from the perspective of its two former chief executives
The End of Charity: When Charity Goes Wrong, Ep. 2: The Captain Tom Foundation
In April 2020, 99-year-old war veteran Captain Tom Moore became an unexpected national hero after raising £38.9m in less than four weeks by walking 100 laps of his garden. But his legacy quickly t...
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June 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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OUT NOW: The first episode of Third Sector's new podcast documentary, When Charity Goes Wrong

@lrouse.bsky.social explores what the rise and fall of Kids Company says about the very set-up of the UK voluntary sector

🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/4kpaeHm
The End of Charity: When Charity Goes Wrong, Ep. 1: Kids Company
In August 2015, one of the country’s most prominent children’s charities, Kids Company, was declared insolvent. Its collapse has been followed by almost a decade of legal wrangling as the chari...
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June 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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🔊 New podcast episode!

@lrouse.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social consider the stresses that accompany charity leadership roles and receive practical tips for managing poor mental health from @clairegoodwinfee.bsky.social @frontline19.bsky.social

🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/3GlCjjF
April 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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🔊 New podcast episode!

@lrouse.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social are joined by Louise Harris @crisis-uk.bsky.social to find out about navigating uncomfortable conversations about DEI, and how to avoid tokenism.

🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/3DUtyMH
April 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Aside from global crises and broad existential questions surrounding the future of aid, the new chief of Save the Children UK has a generous handful of internal challenges to resolve

@lrouse.bsky.social finds out more from Moazzam Malik
Moazzam Malik: ‘2025 should be a year of transition’ for Save the Children UK
Lucinda Rouse hears from Save UK’s new chief about the ‘very fundamental shift’ underway at the charity
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April 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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🔊 New podcast episode!

What's happening to major donor giving?

@lrouse.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social find out from @charlotteprothero.bsky.social @probonoecon.bsky.social and the Charities Aid Foundation's Mark Greer

🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/41CpSI8
February 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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🔊 New podcast episode!

@lrouse.bsky.social and Dami Adewale are joined by Taqwa Sadiq and Sohail Hanif to discuss Zakat and the potential for collaboration with non-Muslim charities

🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/3D5bi2w
February 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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🔊 New podcast episode!

@lrouse.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social are joined by Elliot Trevithick @thinknpc.bsky.social and Right to Succeed's Annie Hinton to learn about measuring impact when using a systems change approach

🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/3QDQYZv
February 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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🔊 New podcast episode!

@lrouse.bsky.social and @andyricketts.bsky.social are joined by @tobyhporter.bsky.social to discuss how @hospiceuk.bsky.social has built a national hospice movement

Plus Richard Litchfield on the sector's approach to ESG strategy

🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/4aTFnie
February 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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🔊 New podcast episode!

@lrouse.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social are joined by @dhnnjyn.bsky.social to discuss why charity leaders should pay more attention to economics.

Plus how to use AI in funding bids

🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/3EfwtPB

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February 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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🔊 New podcast episode!

@lrouse.bsky.social and Dami Adewale are joined by Tamsyn Hanrahan and @bethknight.bsky.social to learn how @savechildrenuk.bsky.social is benefiting from a new corporate advisory board.

🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/40t1tmD
January 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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🔊 New podcast episode!

What does 2025 have in store for charities?

@lrouse.bsky.social and @andyricketts.bsky.social ponder the question with @pollyneate.bsky.social and Wanda Wyporska

🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/3Pxlx2i
January 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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"It's difficult to lift your head up. It's difficult not to think about survival and prioritise yourself. But we have to keep asking ourselves: how is it working for us?"

@ndidi1st.bsky.social on laying down sacred cows to work more effectively.

🎧 Listen to the full interview: bit.ly/3Xslk47
January 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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"Having to select my top podcast episodes of the year feels akin to asking a parent to single out a favourite child. Speaking to such a broad church of voices from all corners of the charity world is one of the very best parts of my job" - @lrouse.bsky.social
Lucinda Rouse: My top Third Sector podcast episodes of 2024
Here are my highlights from the 57 episodes we have produced this year
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December 20, 2024 at 8:34 AM