A few weeks back I wrote about the fact that I didn’t think the general public trusted the Third Sector with their data.
Here’s a little less of an anecdotal story: about 6 weeks ago I was approached by a friendly Chugger on Islington High Street. Although I seldom sign up through these campaign as I […]

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The USA give 2.1% of GDP in charitable donations, the UK give just 0.9%. Why is UK Philanthropy dwarfed by the US?
Urban myth has it that it is the taxation system. This is complete rubbish. It is true that our tax regime for giving is more complex than in the USA, but it is also […]

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Its been a week since I reported the broken links. Obviously no donations are going through the CAF card facility otherwise we would have seen this repaired- surely?

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Thank you to all who responded to our informal gift-aid survey.
The results will be published on Wednesday afternoon this week so please return for these. We had a total of 488 respondents and we achieved a good mix of gender, age, tax brackets and occupations. Some answers yielded no suprise but others clearly expose the […]

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My colleague Lou Cook, is going to podcast about Charities and their apparent neglect of website accessibility. (keep your ears peeled)
When it comes to accessibility in the online world its inseparable from usability in my opinion. In the Third Sector this is an issue too. Although some would argue that the ill-fated playmonday.com has nothing […]

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I bank with First Direct who really gets things right most of the time and I was pleased to see a link to the Asian Earthquake appeal - clicking on it I was redirected to the Disasters Emergency Committee Website
I have heard a lot about the CAF’s new online offering to replace the somewhat […]

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