Third Sector

Host Emily Burt is joined by Third Sector colleagues Andy Ricketts and Emily Harle to talk about three significant sector stories from the past month.
Two months after the new Prime Minister’s cabinet was announced, Andy explores the career of the newly appointed charities minister and the team discuss the possible outcomes of the finalised DCMS briefs.
Emily reflects on the funding intervention that saved Reach Volunteering from closure, weeks after the charity announced it would begin winding down.
And the team discuss the escalating far-right rhetoric that has seen RNLI staff and volunteers targeted by “those who would hide behind a balaclava or a keyboard”.

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Editor Emily Burt is joined by Asma Shah, chief executive of You Make It, a charity that exists to empower and advance the professional and personal development of young Black and brown women living in East London.
Asma discusses founding You Make It at a time when the importance of lived experience was not recognised by funders, and how operating in survival mode has shaped her approach to leadership.
She talks about the ways that funding ‘buzzwords’ can fail to recognise the impact small organisations deliver, and why charities should not shy away from taking an entrepreneurial approach to income generation.

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Third Sector editor Emily Burt and deputy editor Andy Ricketts hear from Adam Baker, director of communications and supporter engagement at Wiltshire and Bath Air Ambulance.
Adam talks about the charity’s recent “thankathons”, an annual event where staff and volunteers come together to spend the day saying thank you to people who have donated to the air ambulance.
He discusses the benefits of running such an event and highlights some of the lessons the charity has learned from the days so far.
He also digs into some of the practicalities of the day and gives his advice for other charities considering running their own thankathon.

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Emily Burt and Andy Ricketts hear from the fundraising specialist Caroline Richardson and Paul Courtney, director of fundraising at Children’s Hospice South West.
Caroline and Paul discuss how ROI is used in fundraising, and the importance of treating the measurement as one data point in a wider context.
And Caroline explains why a decrease in fundraising ROI is not necessarily a bad thing, after her research found a year-on-year decline.

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Senior reporter Emily Harle is joined by Katie Docherty, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising.

She talks about the significant developments in fundraising over the past five years, the evolution of CIoF’s flagship conference and the need for chief executives and sector leaders to recognise fundraising as a serious profession if they want to grow organisational income.

And four years on from her pledge to make the fundraising profession a safer place, Docherty reflects on the need for charities to empower fundraisers to raise the alarm if they feel unsafe, and develop codes of conduct that hold donors accountable for their behaviour.

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