Third Sector Podcast

Mar 07 2025 237 ep. 31 mins 145

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A weekly podcast from Third Sector, the UK’s leading publication for everyone who needs to know what’s going on in the voluntary and not-for-profit sector.
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How ditching fundraising targets has led to income growth for one charity

Mar 07 2025 32 mins

Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Keith Wilson, director of income and engagement at the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance.Keith explains how depressed fundraising revenues during the Covid-19 pandemic prompted a major restructure that saw corporate, community and individual fundraising roles merged into supporter engagement officers.He describes how removing inc

What’s happening to major donor giving?

Feb 28 2025 28 mins

Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Mark Greer, managing director at the Charities Aid Foundation, and Charlotte Prothero, external affairs manager at Pro Bono Economics.Mark outlines the growing importance of major donor revenue to the voluntary sector and sets out the cause areas favoured by high-net-worth individuals.He stresses the need for charities to develop long-ter

A beginner’s guide to Zakat

Feb 21 2025 33 mins

Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Sohail Hanif, chief executive of the National Zakat Foundation, and Taqwa Sadiq, presenter and producer of the BBC audio series Sacred Money.Taqwa explains how an individual’s choice of destination for their annual zakat donation can be influenced by the emotions surrounding their sense of belonging and home.Sohail describes the role o

Impact measurement and the systems change approach

Feb 14 2025 31 mins

Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Elliot Trevithick, principal consultant for charities evaluation and learning at the think tank NPC, and Annie Hinton, senior programme design manager at the youth support charity Right to Succeed.Elliot explains how being one step removed from a charity’s service users can present difficulties when it comes to evaluating programmes tha

How Hospice UK has built a national hospice movement

Feb 07 2025 29 mins

Lucinda Rouse and Andy Ricketts are joined by Toby Porter, chief executive of Hospice UK, to discuss the charity’s function as a membership platform for a particularly financially strained section of the voluntary sector.Toby explains how a reset in member relationships has led to hospices alerting Hospice UK to financial and staffing challenges at an earlier stage than previousl

Why charity leaders should pay more attention to economics

Jan 31 2025 38 mins

Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Danny Sriskandarajah, chief executive of the New Economics Foundation, to discuss his views on the need for charities to understand the economic context of the issues they work to address.Danny explains why a failure to engage with economic issues has contributed to charities often being treated as an afterthought in government-led discus

The merits of a corporate advisory board

Jan 24 2025 27 mins

Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Tamsyn Hanrahan, director of partnerships and philanthropy at Save the Children UK, and Beth Knight, social sustainability director at Lloyds Banking Group and chair of Save the Children UK’s corporate advisory board.Tamsyn explains why Save the Children UK decided a corporate advisory board would be of benefit to the charity, and how

How being more controversial has paid off for the Alzheimer’s Society

Jan 17 2025 33 mins

Andy Ricketts and Dami Adewale are joined by Kate Lee, chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Society.Kate provides insight into the brand work recently undertaken by the charity, with a focus on raising awareness of dementia as well as the charity’s own profile.She explains how taking a more controversial approach to public messaging, including the charity’s recent ‘Long

What does 2025 have in store for charities?

Jan 10 2025 34 mins

Lucinda Rouse and Andy Ricketts are joined by Polly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, and Wanda Wyporska, chief executive of Safe Passage International, to discuss some of the issues facing the voluntary sector in 2025.These include ways of engaging with local and national government, addressing the chief executive churn, and effectively balancing learned and lived experience to d

How did the sector fare in 2024?

Dec 18 2024 27 mins

Lucinda Rouse, Andy Ricketts and Emily Harle dissect the leading stories from the voluntary sector in 2024.Lucinda delivers a speedy round-up of the year’s charity news before the three discuss their selected top stories. These include the closure of the British Youth Council and the National Citizen Service, the finding that charities are subsidising government service cont