Results tagged “Third Sector Forums” from The Sunday Mail - Third Sector Lab

According to a recent Guardian article, in 2006 a quarter of Shelter's income came from street fundraisers and 75% of Greenpeace's new members were recruited this way between 2000 and 2003. Clearly chuggers are having a huge impact but charity watchdog Intelligent Giving has called for people to boycott the clipboard and golf umbrella brigade.

I have a feeling that many people will be turned off by charities using these methods, which may dilute the impact of their campaigns. This is especially worrying given Shelter's excellent, often quite radical, homelessness campaigns. Other charity professionals on Third Sector Forums seem to agree.

What does everyone else think?

Yes you read correctly. A recent Times article quoted the Torie MSP Alex Johnstone:

“School discipline is reaching crisis point and giving individual headteachers the power to decide whether or not to use capital punishment would be a good move."

Now one can only presume this is a typo, a good one at that. The misquote/quote is mildly amusing but it also raises two important questions (ok, number two isn't that important):

1. Should corporal punishment be brought back to schools?

2. What is the funniest typo/error you've seen in a newspaper?

Today is Social Enterprise Day! It's all about celebrating the inspiring entrepreneurs who are using their entreprising ideas for social or environmental change.

To coincide with Social Enterprise Day, I'm really pleased to announce the beta launch of a little project which I've been working on in my spare time...Third Sector Forums.

TSF is a friendly online community for UK charity professionals, volunteers and social entrepreneurs. The forums are a place for people to network, learn, debate and discuss third sector issues. Categories include funding, fundraising, governance, legal issues, internet, marketing, campaigns, social enterprise and beyond.

While the forums are third sector focused, private and public professionals are welcome too. We're especially keen to get ethical businesses onboard. The forums are 100% free to use and run by volunteers.

The forums would not exist without private sector support. The purchase of the forum software was sponsored by Sure Languages. The wonderful Third Sector Forums and Third Sector Lab logos and various graphical elements across the website were created by Nothing Does graphic design and branding consultancy. Last, but by no means least, Clear Blue Designs provided the professional forum set-up and design as well as ongoing technical support and hosting.

That's my shameless plug over, hopefully see some of you on the forums soon.