Author: Sarah Gate


Key annual fundraising opportunities

We are at the start of another year of infinite fundraising opportunity. We know you’ll need to start planning your…


Celebrity charity endorsement: does it work and should we do it?

We are well and truly in the age of celebrity endorsement. Famous people are paid thousands of pounds to promote…


Key events for charities in 2019

Happy New Year! We can’t believe it’s 2019 already. No doubt this year will fly-by just as fast as last…


Professional New Year’s Resolutions

Christmas is almost upon us. For the purposes of planning ahead, we thought we’d start rambling on about New Year…


Amazing alternative gift ideas

If you feel anything like most people, you’ll feel like Christmas has become all about consumerism. The pressure to put…


14 things all charity campaigners are dreading at Christmas

1. When everyone thinks it’s too early to be talking about it, and you have to get them enthused.  …


7 things we learned from Social CEOs

Social CEOs celebrates amazing non-profit leaders using social media to propel their charity forward. This annual awards ceremony brings nominated…


All I Want For Christmas Is… Inspiring Christmas Campaigns

Christmas is around the corner. If you work in charity, you’ve most likely been preparing for months. It’s a hugely…


Anniversaries can remind your donors to give

Sunday is Remembrance Day, a day in which we come together to remember the end of World War I. In…


Amazing charity Instagram stories

When Facebook launched Instagram stories in 2017, it gave Instagram users an extra opportunity to upload their lives to social…


Inspiring legacy campaigns

Legacy giving topped £2.24 billion last year, despite only seven percent of people leaving money to charities in their wills….


Baking bread and cakes: how food brings people together

It’s the final of the Great British Bake Off next week, and that got us thinking about how important cakes…