Research / Statistics

We've just completed a significant research project and it served as a timely reminder of the pitfalls of reading too much into research findings. I write a guest blog for Ask Charity, the specialist PR and communications service for charities, and in doing some background research was surprised to see just how much research is shoe-horned into communications or used to create eye-catching 'headlines'.

Over the past couple of months I have been getting more and more enthused about the fundraising potential we are starting to see being unlocked via Twitter, Facebook and numerous other online activiti

I’ve just come to the end of the first piece of research that I’ve been working on as part of my involvement in the new ESRC Centre for Giving and Philanthropy (CGAP), and launched the final report, <

The recent study into donor motivations and behaviour featured earlier this month in the Chronicle of Philanthropy made for interesting – and potentially useful – reading.

Following on from my blog a couple of weeks ago, I’ve received lots of useful feedback and thoughts on smartphone apps and have some results to share from the quick survey.

Just exactly how useful are smartphone apps (applications) to people at work?  According to social media experts at Mashable, there are now over 100,000 apps on the iTunes store.  Whilst there are other platforms, iPhone is still the dominant player offering apps for seemingly everything our modern lives demand.

The concepts are fundamental, particularly when it comes to fundraising. But they are subtly different and the power to influence them comes from quite different sources.

There are 2 big issues the sector needs to get a grip on in the social care and ageing debate....

This week I found a great website for Childs i foundation that listed ways to give - money, time and rather brilliantly they included love..

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