Cracking Charity Chat

A chat with Paul Streets, CEO of Lloyds Bank Foundation, recorded July 2020. Paul shares his leadership journey, including the influence of working in the family's greengrocers in his teens, and as a social worker early in his career. Paul talks about some inspirational people who have influenced his work; Lloyds Bank Foundation's response to the crisis and its new Covid Recovery F

A chat with Wayne Murray, Director of Strategy at the agency Audience. We cover organisational and funding strategy post Covid-19. We talk about the impact of Covid-19, the fundraising model being broken, who's nailed their FR and comms during the crisis, and the good bits that have come out of the crisis that we should keep.

Chat with Nathan Sparling, CEO of HIV Scotland. We discuss a lot! Being a small charity CEO, being under 30, punching above your weight as an organisation, imposter syndrome, turning around an organisation on the brink of closure, and the value of being a drag artist on charity leadership skills.

A chat with Ross McCulloch from Third Sector Lab - the guy that knows what we need to know about digital. We chat digital transformation (what even is it?), digital culture, Digital Trustees and Digital Leaders (the latter through SCVO), the role of infrastructure organisations in supporting charities to get better at and scale up digital transformation. Ross gets ranty about on-li

A chat with Matthew Sherrington, charity strategy and communications expert. We chat about his journey from starting as a volunteer with Oxfam in 1989 and going on to support and lead various Oxfam teams across the world in the nineties. We also cover his experience of turning around Greenpeace USA in the noughties, aliging strategy, comms, fundraising and campaigning, mobilising p

In this chat with Sarah Hill, CEO of the Yorkshire charity IDAS - Independent Domestic Abuse Service - we cover: the commissioning environment and how IDAS has responded by changing its model of working (how and where), collaboration with others, the growth of the charity from a few hundred thousand turnover and a handful of staff to a £4m turnover and 120 staff today, and Sarah's

A fun chat with Simon Scriver, fundraising consultant, trainer and speaker. We cover some top tips for small (in fact all) charity fundraising; fundraising being about relationships - not just asking - and how to develop relationship fundraising across your organisation; corporate partnerships; why mimicking the big charities isn't the way to go; and somewhat controversially, confe

A chat with the lovely Kathryn Holloway, Head of Individual Giving and Supporter Care at Friends of the Earth. We chat all things direct marketing: recruitment, the welcome journey, digital, talking to supporters, internal comms and basic communication being at the heart of it all! Should you get Instagram? What was the heating section in BHS like? Why is GDPR actually a good thing

A chat with Louise Firth, Director of Fundraising at Refuge and a Member of the Institute of Fundraising's Expert Panel on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. We chat about the Refuge, fundraising for 'difficult' causes and their new fundraising strategy, and the IoF's Change Collective strategy - drivers, initial activities in the strategy, affinity networks, being a role model and

Demystifying social investment with Nick Temple, CEO of Social Investment Business (SIB). We chat about how social investment has changed, the support that SIB provides (financial and non-financial), impact measurement, the power dynamic between investor and investee, diversity in the sector and his inspirational person - Nicholas Albury (social action legend). Enjoy!