Blogs
Vision
Its so easy to get pulled into everything that is ‘wrong’ with the world at the moment. Health, social care and education systems that are under-funded and close to collapse, wars around the world, black and white thinking which polarises and separates...
Valuing People
One of the joys of working in and with third sector organisations is the passion and commitment of the people in it – the staff, Directors/Trustees and the volunteers. The energy that people put into making the world a better place and supporting people with a wide...
Change
This month, has seen one of our founding Directors retire. She stepped down as a Director some time ago, but has continued to support organisations through Clarity and to create beautiful reports for us. This has me reflecting on change within small organisations....
What do you really want to know, and why?
I recently received a request from a service I’d used to complete a feedback form. The content of the email appeared to suggest that if I were thinking of scoring less than ‘10’ on their ‘would you recommend us’ question, I should email them instead. They are...
Learning from volunteers
Our last blog reflected on the age of volunteers in many organisations and the increasing challenges organisations are facing in recruiting volunteers. In this blog, we’re reflecting on the retention of volunteers and ensuring that their views and feedback are...
AI and bid writing
Charity Excellence Framework (an excellent resource if you haven’t already used them), are currently trialling using AI (artificial intelligence). Charity Excellence AI Services Tech Bunnies Their 1st GPT3 service is Funding Bid Writing. The aim is to provide free...
Lived experience
We work with a lot of organisations, where the founder(s) have set up their CIC (or charity) based on their own personal experience and gaps they found in the support available. We’ve recently completed an external evaluation for one such organisation, who were...
Cost of living
We know that the charities and social enterprises we work with are working hard to support clients through the current economic situation - opening up warm spaces, signposting to grants and benefits, running food banks etc. But we have been thinking about staff and...
Role of the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector
There seems to be an assumption now (across all political parties) that the VCSE will somehow ‘pick up’ the fallout from Government decisions and lack of investment in statutory provision. And they do. Or they try to. But is this really the role that the Sector...