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I'm not into football. And I'm not very tribal. But this did make me shed a tear.

The constant truths that define best practice have become blurred and even lost. Should fundraising practice be about shiny silver balls, or be rather boring?   And is the biggest difference we can make, be not trying to be different? youtube.com/watch?v=XfAYW0…

"I hope ⁦Gordon Brown is right & this is a pivot point for child poverty to begin to fall…"

Disarmingly lovely to watch.

There are many very, very, stupid people in the UK.

18 minutes of joy and hope.

Lovely.

“The conversations I've had with donors sometimes reduce me to tears when you give them the opportunity to talk about how fulfilling they find supporting the organisation." Paul amadi (he/him) youtu.be/kUT7YVX4dek?si…

“For any fundraiser, it is common sense to start by thinking about the donor, not the product.   But the thing is, to quote my much-loved and dearly departed mom, "The only thing about common sense is it's not that common." youtu.be/kUT7YVX4dek?si…

“I do it because I like it,” the 85-year-old financial economist Eugene Fama told one of my colleagues who asked him why he kept at it when they met in Fama’s University of Chicago office."

Here's a different perspective on charity branding from the most recent 2 Ps on a Pod podcast with Giles Pegram CBE - it's an interview with one of the world's most experienced brand specialists about why a charity should rebrand - and when it shouldn't. youtube.com/watch?v=WvV9v6…

When you as a fundraiser are going to work, who is the leader that gives you true inspiration? The Executive Director of Marketing and Communications? Or the Chief Supporter Officer? linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…)

Immigration is not the reason that you can’t get a hospital appointment, it’s the reason you can get one. Please repost for all the people who can’t seem to grasp that.

Unseemly behaviour.

Happy New Year.

Not nice.

The Big Beautiful Bill is designed to be the largest upward transfer of wealth in American History. Do you get it yet?

gilespegram.com/potted-thought…