The Hub

Michelle Emerson recalls Eureka!’s journey to winning the Charity Award for Arts, Culture and Heritage in 2016.

Entering the Charity Awards allowed Combat Stress to identify what it did well, says Karen Henderson.

British Heart Foundation’s DECHOX campaign is all about a fun chocolate fast. But the sophisticated, personalised email campaign behind it yielded some sweet results in 2016, as Elly Crump shares.

So, you’re acutely aware that your board composition is too white/male/old/long-serving/ineffectual (delete as applicable and feel free to add other adjectives), and you’re convinced that change is needed. What next? How do you go about getting a diverse board? Tania Mason offers some advice.

Leadership development is not the dark art that many perceive it to be, says Shaks Ghosh. It’s simply about learning key skills and behaviours and deploying them at the right time.

Interserve gets personal with its donors, attempting to personally visit all who give more than £200. Alastair McIver invites a cultural shift in the way we treat supporters.

Cancer charity Clic Sargent has just completed a business improvement programme, cutting £1m from its cost base. Lorraine Clifton outlines how it was done.

Ryan Campbell and Paul Farmer of Mind discuss the challenges of maintaining a diverse committee.

What does sustainability mean to your charity? Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka and Steve Zimmerman offer some insight.