Cracking Charity Chat Ep. 17. Sarah Hill, CEO, IDAS

“No. No thank you Prince Andrew.” This episode is with Sarah Hill, CEO of IDAS, the Independent Domestic Abuse Service, which operates across Yorkshire. Sarah is passionate about tackling violence against women and girls, and providing specialist support for victims and survivors of abuse. As well as being CEO of IDAS, Sarah is on the […]

Cracking Charity Chat. Ep 16. Simon Scriver

Episode 16 with Simon Scriver of Change Fundraising, chatting small charity fundraising and conference refreshments, plus some general wittering. Includes some new features – intro format and song! If you’re familiar with UK or Canadian fundraising , you’ll probably have seen Simon speak or had a chuckle at some of his stuff on the Twitter. The focus […]

Cracking Charity Chat Ep. 12. James Jopling, Director – Samaritans in Scotland

In this episode I’m chatting with James Jopling, Director of Samaritans Scotland, soon to be Director at ProjectScotland. James has worked for a lot of the big charities and causes, including Oxfam, Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now CRUK), Shelter, Maggies and Breakthrough Breast Cancer. I met James very briefly when I was shadowing Kath Abrahams […]

Cracking Charity Chat: Ep. 9 Jennifer McCanna, Leadership Coach

My most recent podcast is with Jennifer McCanna, a leadership coach working with charities including CAF and Action Aid, as well as various clients from the private sector. Jen and I are running a session at the Institute of Fundraising’s Yorkshire Conference on Friday 24 May around emotional intelligence, resilience and leadership and thought it’d be nice […]

Going it alone

I’ve gone freelance by accident. After having my delightful, gorgeous, exceptionally noisy baby boy, I had fully intended to go back to my role at Toynbee Hall. Then we moved out of London. So, I’ve decided to go it alone. Having worked as a consultant at NCVO and provided voluntary consultancy support through Small Charities […]

Charity Masters Degrees: a balancing act

My media career started at a very young age – at just four years old I was pictured in The Selby Times, dressed as a bell for my school nativity play. But I’m no Macauley Culkin and since then I have withdrawn from the heady heights of celebrity and got on with my life. However, […]