Category: Charity
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Volunteer communications
Communicating with volunteers can be tricky With so many communication tools available these days, communicating with a charity’s volunteers should be easy. With email, WhatsApp, Facebook and so on, and not forgetting texting on the phone, surely no volunteer should be left out of the picture. But, strangely, problems remain. Trustees won’t be involved in…
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Comms III
this is the last of three posts on the subject of communications In the previous posts, I suggested that the first task was to decide on with whom you wanted to communicate. Books on marketing talk about segmenting the audience which is sound advice for commercial firms. It is relevant to small charities and when…
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Fundraising
some of the problems with this vexed subject, part 1 If there is one topic that comes at the top of the list of small charity’s concerns it’s fundraising. When I wrote my book, I stayed away from the subject as I thought there was plenty of advice around already: I now think that was…
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Letter published in the Guardian
My letter on the subject of charity funding and the lack of support the sector receives was published in the Guardian today, 31 December 2022. All three letters on this subject can be read in the link below. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/30/the-tories-are-expecting-charities-to-pick-up-the-pieces-of-the-cost-of-living-crisis Peter Curbishley Author of How to be a Successful Trustee
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Guardian leader
The guardian devoted a leader to current situation with charities. The Guardian devoted a full length leader (on 27 December 2022) to the current situation with charities in the UK: Like the communities it serves, the voluntary sector is in need of repair. Although it is welcome to see the affairs of the sector get…
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Something quietly forgotten
Trustees sometimes need to be alert to changes being quietly slipped through by their staff When I was a manager of group of people, we would have the formal annual review and toward the end of that process, the question of staff development and training would be raised. It was something I was quite keen…
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Beware Greeks bearing gifts
charities have to be a little careful when dealing with members of parliament My Twitter pages and emails lit up a few days ago when our local MP said what a pleasure it was to meet some representatives of the local foodbank. It drew responses along the lines that he should be ashamed not delighted.…
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The agenda
the agenda for meetings is all important When I used to work in a civil service environment, I remember being surprised at how much time and effort was expended on planning for meetings. What was on the agenda – and what was to be left off – the order of the items and anxiety at…
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Trustees needed …
Are boards asking for the right sort of person when recruiting a new trustee? I get a regular flow of trustee positions via LinkedIn and in my inbox and I was struck looking through them, by the sorts of trustee being looked for. A common feature in these adverts is for specialist skills. These are…
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Spoilt for choice
large number of charities doing the same thing My email box has become full of friends complaining (sort of) about the large number of messages they get from a wide range of charities many of which are campaigning for broadly the same thing. So in addition to compassion fatigue there is what we might call…
The Successful trustee 