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A good death

Considering end of life and good death.

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Dusting ourselves down

The newsletter - back after a hiatus

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Godmother of Rock 'n' Roll

Saving Black history, racism in football

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The birds that never sang

Lost birds and the history of woke

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The purpose of charities

Charities and social justice, ageism and some super blooms

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Racist slurs are never banter

Here's to staying hopeful

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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

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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

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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

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Queen of the New Year

Looking for hope in dark times

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