#66 Check here to opt out of bad content □
Just as it is now, Christmas was approaching fast. The year was 1991 and the shops of Portsmouth had hung their decorations, put up their...
#65 I’m looking for a 40-year old brunette with a sense of humour
Before we start, for the sake of my marriage and ongoing happiness, I need to make it super-clear that I am not actually looking for a...
#64 Is donor profiling testing ethical boundaries?
This week, The Telegraph published its bi-annual anti-charity fundraising article, this time taking aim at the practice of charities...
#63 Proud but concerned
The hardest part of writing this article was finding a title. I eventually came up with ‘proud but concerned’ as it encapsulated how I...
#62 You look smart and I won’t take that away from you
Before I launch into this fortnight’s article I must report that I keep hearing this line from sales reps “You look smart and I won’t...
#61 This might lose me a few readers
What does a restaurant menu with a two-hundred dishes, and a company that offers both energy sales AND charity fundraising have in...
#60 Donors say the darndest things
Whether it’s hearing “I can’t give to you because if I give to you, I’ll have to give to everyone” or “OK, I’ll help, but only because my...
#59 Hello gorgeous, fancy a chat about poverty?
This week’s blog was inspired by a particularly poorly researched opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald authored by a ‘journalist’...
#58 The Perfect Donor
As a young fundraiser, I was raised to believe that the perfect donors are middle-class women in their forties and fifties whose children...
#57 Loose lips (and illegal practices) sink ships
Before I launch into this week’s post I need to tell you all to donate to UNICEF. On Friday morning I had the honour of meeting a former...
