More than risk and red tape
Andrew Hind, former Charity Commission chief executive spoke about his own experience of being a trustee. This was not a lesson in the red tape of trusteeship, it was the story of how one person was captivated by charities and was willing to work at the tough bits of trusteeship as well as the rewards. It was a great personal story and sobering. But most of all it was oddly encouraging – even those who know can get in over their heads!
Are you aware of disability?
AGMs – why have them?
AGMs have a reputation, a dull and boring reputation. As I sat at the YMCA England AGM I wondered why we do them and could we get more from them. Is good coffee enough? Since we have to have them and we ask people to give up their time, I felt compelled to remind myself why I was there in the first place.
Getting my head round The Big Society
Trustees’ Week – Where next?
How Reach supported Trustees’ Week
Sarah King’s Trustees Week diary
The Big Society – to act or to watch
Social media : mobilising the users of infrastructure organisations
Oxfam, Charity Water and Macmillan among others are doing some wonderful inspirational work with social media and I love looking at what they are creating.
Harnessing the enthusiasms of the new interactive generation and providing them with the means to galvanise each other in support of great causes is obviously hugely successful.
But what about charities such as ourselves who don’t have an emotional pull, or a single cause to mobilise people against? How do we engage our users to talk to us and respond?