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"Funders always ask about sustainability. And the elephant in the room is that sustainability is really difficult without further funding."
Spirit of 2012's Ruth Hollis on reducing funding cliff-edges when a project nears the end of its cycle.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/3LyjyvN
Spirit of 2012's Ruth Hollis on reducing funding cliff-edges when a project nears the end of its cycle.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/3LyjyvN
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"Funders always ask about sustainability. And the elephant in the room is that sustainability is really difficult without further funding."
Spirit of 2012's Ruth Hollis on reducing funding cliff-edges when a project nears the end of its cycle.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/3LyjyvN
Spirit of 2012's Ruth Hollis on reducing funding cliff-edges when a project nears the end of its cycle.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/3LyjyvN
"If it continues like this, the problem you're going to find is that you don't have any senior professional people left in the sector"
@barelycivilsociety.bsky.social on the pitfalls of hollowing out senior charity roles.
🎧 Full conversation on the Third Sector Podcast: bit.ly/4q5mP5w
@barelycivilsociety.bsky.social on the pitfalls of hollowing out senior charity roles.
🎧 Full conversation on the Third Sector Podcast: bit.ly/4q5mP5w
October 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"If it continues like this, the problem you're going to find is that you don't have any senior professional people left in the sector"
@barelycivilsociety.bsky.social on the pitfalls of hollowing out senior charity roles.
🎧 Full conversation on the Third Sector Podcast: bit.ly/4q5mP5w
@barelycivilsociety.bsky.social on the pitfalls of hollowing out senior charity roles.
🎧 Full conversation on the Third Sector Podcast: bit.ly/4q5mP5w
🎧 Join our editorial team meeting to hear the team's insights on recent sector news and discussions.
Dami Adewale reflects on how @younglivesvscancer.bsky.social is partnering with business ventures developing solutions for its service users.
Listen to the full conversation: bit.ly/3WiLfeb
Dami Adewale reflects on how @younglivesvscancer.bsky.social is partnering with business ventures developing solutions for its service users.
Listen to the full conversation: bit.ly/3WiLfeb
October 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🎧 Join our editorial team meeting to hear the team's insights on recent sector news and discussions.
Dami Adewale reflects on how @younglivesvscancer.bsky.social is partnering with business ventures developing solutions for its service users.
Listen to the full conversation: bit.ly/3WiLfeb
Dami Adewale reflects on how @younglivesvscancer.bsky.social is partnering with business ventures developing solutions for its service users.
Listen to the full conversation: bit.ly/3WiLfeb
"It's often about push factors as well as pull factors."
@barelycivilsociety.bsky.social debunks the myth that charity consultants spend much of their time playing golf and drinking mimosas.
Emily Burt lays out the realities of balancing work and childcare duties.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/4q5mP5w
@barelycivilsociety.bsky.social debunks the myth that charity consultants spend much of their time playing golf and drinking mimosas.
Emily Burt lays out the realities of balancing work and childcare duties.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/4q5mP5w
October 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
"It's often about push factors as well as pull factors."
@barelycivilsociety.bsky.social debunks the myth that charity consultants spend much of their time playing golf and drinking mimosas.
Emily Burt lays out the realities of balancing work and childcare duties.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/4q5mP5w
@barelycivilsociety.bsky.social debunks the myth that charity consultants spend much of their time playing golf and drinking mimosas.
Emily Burt lays out the realities of balancing work and childcare duties.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/4q5mP5w
"The point is choice. And if people don't have the option to work in a way that is secure and where they have full rights of an employee, that's quite unjust."
@barelycivilsociety.bsky.social on the pros and cons of freelancing and the need for flexible working options.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/4q5mP5w
@barelycivilsociety.bsky.social on the pros and cons of freelancing and the need for flexible working options.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/4q5mP5w
October 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"The point is choice. And if people don't have the option to work in a way that is secure and where they have full rights of an employee, that's quite unjust."
@barelycivilsociety.bsky.social on the pros and cons of freelancing and the need for flexible working options.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/4q5mP5w
@barelycivilsociety.bsky.social on the pros and cons of freelancing and the need for flexible working options.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/4q5mP5w
“What I’m interested to examine is to what extent it’s going to affect the breast cancer charity community.”
@andyricketts.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social consider the implications for smaller charities of Breast Cancer Now's £40m growth ambition.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/3WiLfeb
@andyricketts.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social consider the implications for smaller charities of Breast Cancer Now's £40m growth ambition.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/3WiLfeb
October 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“What I’m interested to examine is to what extent it’s going to affect the breast cancer charity community.”
@andyricketts.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social consider the implications for smaller charities of Breast Cancer Now's £40m growth ambition.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/3WiLfeb
@andyricketts.bsky.social and @emilyharle.bsky.social consider the implications for smaller charities of Breast Cancer Now's £40m growth ambition.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/3WiLfeb
"What we all want is evidenced, ethical, safe mental health innovations. And charities have a really unique part to play in that process."
@younglivesvscancer.bsky.social's Helen McShane on how charities can link their service users with developers of tech-enabled innovations.
🎧 bit.ly/4pQv3i4
@younglivesvscancer.bsky.social's Helen McShane on how charities can link their service users with developers of tech-enabled innovations.
🎧 bit.ly/4pQv3i4
October 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"What we all want is evidenced, ethical, safe mental health innovations. And charities have a really unique part to play in that process."
@younglivesvscancer.bsky.social's Helen McShane on how charities can link their service users with developers of tech-enabled innovations.
🎧 bit.ly/4pQv3i4
@younglivesvscancer.bsky.social's Helen McShane on how charities can link their service users with developers of tech-enabled innovations.
🎧 bit.ly/4pQv3i4
"I don't think it's always fair to say that charities are risk averse. We might just be more comfortable with taking risk in different ways"
Helen McShane on how Young Lives vs Cancer is approaching risk in its innovation work with early-stage business ventures.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/4pQv3i4
Helen McShane on how Young Lives vs Cancer is approaching risk in its innovation work with early-stage business ventures.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/4pQv3i4
October 1, 2025 at 8:20 AM
"I don't think it's always fair to say that charities are risk averse. We might just be more comfortable with taking risk in different ways"
Helen McShane on how Young Lives vs Cancer is approaching risk in its innovation work with early-stage business ventures.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/4pQv3i4
Helen McShane on how Young Lives vs Cancer is approaching risk in its innovation work with early-stage business ventures.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/4pQv3i4
The new Code of Fundraising Practice is shorter than previous versions and takes a principles-based approach.
Does this make it more open to interpretation by fundraisers?
@emilyharle.bsky.social asks the Fundraising Regulator's head of policy, Paul Winyard.
🎧 Full podcast: bit.ly/4nccmnh
Does this make it more open to interpretation by fundraisers?
@emilyharle.bsky.social asks the Fundraising Regulator's head of policy, Paul Winyard.
🎧 Full podcast: bit.ly/4nccmnh
September 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The new Code of Fundraising Practice is shorter than previous versions and takes a principles-based approach.
Does this make it more open to interpretation by fundraisers?
@emilyharle.bsky.social asks the Fundraising Regulator's head of policy, Paul Winyard.
🎧 Full podcast: bit.ly/4nccmnh
Does this make it more open to interpretation by fundraisers?
@emilyharle.bsky.social asks the Fundraising Regulator's head of policy, Paul Winyard.
🎧 Full podcast: bit.ly/4nccmnh
"We want to make sure that [unscrupulous CICs] don't have a negative impact on the charitable fundraising brand. Which I think they do, quite frankly."
Paul Winyard on the Fundraising Regulator's goal to help fundraising organisations thrive.
🎧 Podcast interview: bit.ly/4nccmnh
Paul Winyard on the Fundraising Regulator's goal to help fundraising organisations thrive.
🎧 Podcast interview: bit.ly/4nccmnh
September 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
"We want to make sure that [unscrupulous CICs] don't have a negative impact on the charitable fundraising brand. Which I think they do, quite frankly."
Paul Winyard on the Fundraising Regulator's goal to help fundraising organisations thrive.
🎧 Podcast interview: bit.ly/4nccmnh
Paul Winyard on the Fundraising Regulator's goal to help fundraising organisations thrive.
🎧 Podcast interview: bit.ly/4nccmnh
"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
@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
"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
@markrusselluk.bsky.social on the important role for trustee boards in promoting the wellbeing of senior leadership teams.
🎧 Podcast: bit.ly/4mgVYk7
"You don't apply to be a chief executive unless you've got a certain sense of ego. And I admit I've got one too."
@markrusselluk.bsky.social explains why his ego and the @childrenssociety.bsky.social brand both need to be set aside to enable social change.
🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/4mgVYk7
@markrusselluk.bsky.social explains why his ego and the @childrenssociety.bsky.social brand both need to be set aside to enable social change.
🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/4mgVYk7
September 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
"You don't apply to be a chief executive unless you've got a certain sense of ego. And I admit I've got one too."
@markrusselluk.bsky.social explains why his ego and the @childrenssociety.bsky.social brand both need to be set aside to enable social change.
🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/4mgVYk7
@markrusselluk.bsky.social explains why his ego and the @childrenssociety.bsky.social brand both need to be set aside to enable social change.
🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/4mgVYk7
"If councils can tender bin services for 20 years, why can't they tender children's services for five?"
@markrusselluk.bsky.social on how extending commissioning periods would transform charity finances overnight.
🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/4mgVYk7
@markrusselluk.bsky.social on how extending commissioning periods would transform charity finances overnight.
🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/4mgVYk7
September 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
"If councils can tender bin services for 20 years, why can't they tender children's services for five?"
@markrusselluk.bsky.social on how extending commissioning periods would transform charity finances overnight.
🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/4mgVYk7
@markrusselluk.bsky.social on how extending commissioning periods would transform charity finances overnight.
🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/4mgVYk7
"There's no model of food aid provision that is okay"
Emma Revie on why @trusselluk.bsky.social never accepts money from those who hold the solutions to ending the need for food banks
🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/3JXKRPe
Emma Revie on why @trusselluk.bsky.social never accepts money from those who hold the solutions to ending the need for food banks
🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/3JXKRPe
September 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
"There's no model of food aid provision that is okay"
Emma Revie on why @trusselluk.bsky.social never accepts money from those who hold the solutions to ending the need for food banks
🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/3JXKRPe
Emma Revie on why @trusselluk.bsky.social never accepts money from those who hold the solutions to ending the need for food banks
🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/3JXKRPe
"It may be easier in the short term to do something on your own. But is it actually achieving the change you want to achieve?"
Emma Revie on the need for organisations to work together in driving systems change.
🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/3JXKRPe
@trusselluk.bsky.social
Emma Revie on the need for organisations to work together in driving systems change.
🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/3JXKRPe
@trusselluk.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"It may be easier in the short term to do something on your own. But is it actually achieving the change you want to achieve?"
Emma Revie on the need for organisations to work together in driving systems change.
🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/3JXKRPe
@trusselluk.bsky.social
Emma Revie on the need for organisations to work together in driving systems change.
🎧 Full podcast interview: bit.ly/3JXKRPe
@trusselluk.bsky.social
"We hadn't expected that we would be using this as a pre-emptive safeguarding tool"
Ruth Marvel on on an unanticipated benefit of @dofe.org's new impact measurement framework
🎧 Find out more in our full podcast interview: bit.ly/45Hxeeo
Ruth Marvel on on an unanticipated benefit of @dofe.org's new impact measurement framework
🎧 Find out more in our full podcast interview: bit.ly/45Hxeeo
September 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
"We hadn't expected that we would be using this as a pre-emptive safeguarding tool"
Ruth Marvel on on an unanticipated benefit of @dofe.org's new impact measurement framework
🎧 Find out more in our full podcast interview: bit.ly/45Hxeeo
Ruth Marvel on on an unanticipated benefit of @dofe.org's new impact measurement framework
🎧 Find out more in our full podcast interview: bit.ly/45Hxeeo
"The whole point of doing a theory of change is that it's a theory"
Ruth Marvel tells @andyricketts.bsky.social how @dofe.org responds when its impact data returns unexpected findings.
🎧 Listen to the full podcast interview: bit.ly/45Hxeeo
Ruth Marvel tells @andyricketts.bsky.social how @dofe.org responds when its impact data returns unexpected findings.
🎧 Listen to the full podcast interview: bit.ly/45Hxeeo
August 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"The whole point of doing a theory of change is that it's a theory"
Ruth Marvel tells @andyricketts.bsky.social how @dofe.org responds when its impact data returns unexpected findings.
🎧 Listen to the full podcast interview: bit.ly/45Hxeeo
Ruth Marvel tells @andyricketts.bsky.social how @dofe.org responds when its impact data returns unexpected findings.
🎧 Listen to the full podcast interview: bit.ly/45Hxeeo
“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
@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
“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
@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
"I think the majority of charities wouldn't have survived an inquiry like ours in the circumstances we had"
Lauren Stoner on the impact of the Charity Commission's 23-month inquiry into Mermaids
🎧 When Charity Goes Wrong, Ep.3: Mermaids
Listen here: bit.ly/4kQTmIX
Lauren Stoner on the impact of the Charity Commission's 23-month inquiry into Mermaids
🎧 When Charity Goes Wrong, Ep.3: Mermaids
Listen here: bit.ly/4kQTmIX
July 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"I think the majority of charities wouldn't have survived an inquiry like ours in the circumstances we had"
Lauren Stoner on the impact of the Charity Commission's 23-month inquiry into Mermaids
🎧 When Charity Goes Wrong, Ep.3: Mermaids
Listen here: bit.ly/4kQTmIX
Lauren Stoner on the impact of the Charity Commission's 23-month inquiry into Mermaids
🎧 When Charity Goes Wrong, Ep.3: Mermaids
Listen here: bit.ly/4kQTmIX
“It’s hard to say that we agree it’s a conflict. We agree that you can see how it’s confusing”
Hannah Ingram-Moore on the blurred lines between the Captain Tom Foundation and the money from her father's book deal
🎧 When Charity Goes Wrong, Ep.2: The Captain Tom Foundation
Out now: bit.ly/4kFvlo5
Hannah Ingram-Moore on the blurred lines between the Captain Tom Foundation and the money from her father's book deal
🎧 When Charity Goes Wrong, Ep.2: The Captain Tom Foundation
Out now: bit.ly/4kFvlo5
July 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
“It’s hard to say that we agree it’s a conflict. We agree that you can see how it’s confusing”
Hannah Ingram-Moore on the blurred lines between the Captain Tom Foundation and the money from her father's book deal
🎧 When Charity Goes Wrong, Ep.2: The Captain Tom Foundation
Out now: bit.ly/4kFvlo5
Hannah Ingram-Moore on the blurred lines between the Captain Tom Foundation and the money from her father's book deal
🎧 When Charity Goes Wrong, Ep.2: The Captain Tom Foundation
Out now: bit.ly/4kFvlo5