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Dusting ourselves down
The newsletter - back after a hiatus
The birds that never sang
Lost birds and the history of woke
The purpose of charities
Charities and social justice, ageism and some super blooms
Racist slurs are never banter
Here's to staying hopeful
Managing an online community - what we learned
(This article originally appeared on civilsociety.co.uk [https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/community-chat-what-we-learnt-from-managing-fundraising-chat-on-facebook.html] on 08 Nov 2021) My colleague, Lesley Pinder [https://twitter.com/Skipinder], and I recently stepped away from managing the popular Fundraising Chat Facebook group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/FundraisingChat] after 6.5
Guest Blog: Helping Staff To Feel They Belong
Guest blog about inclusivity at work from Kath Howard - Assistant Director of People & OD at Samaritans Organisations can be lonely places. It’s not unusual for organisations to talk about ‘employee engagement’ and inclusion but when the big stuff goes on in someone’s personal life, it’s
Where Power Lies: Putting Lived Experience at the Heart of Decision-Making
> 'There’s really no such thing as the “voiceless”. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.’ – Arundhati Roy Right from the outset of my quarter-century career in the voluntary sector, I’ve been troubled by the frequent disconnect between those at the leadership levels of
Passing the Baton and Sharing Power
As we enter the next phase of living with Covid-19, it’s been interesting to look back and reflect on what this time has revealed about the interplay between social change and power, particularly in London where I live and work, and where I am also a Lambeth councillor. In
Pride Month in a Plague Year
It’s a strange Pride Month this year. Instead of coming together in festivals, marches and celebrations during June and on into the summer, over 500 Prides around the world have been cancelled or postponed. Lesbians, gay men, bi, and transgender people the world over are reeling from the impacts
Charities Seem to be Failing at Change and Justice. So What’s the Point of Them?
I wrote this post with my colleague, Matthew Sherrington [https://twitter.com/m_sherrington]. It originally appeared in Third Sector [https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/lucy-caldicott-matthew-sherrington-charities-failing-change-justice/article/1689642] Let us know what you think! There are moments when scales fall from eyes, and you start seeing things afresh, perhaps as
