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Third Sector Podcast

A weekly podcast from Third Sector, the UK’s leading publication for everyone who needs to know what’s going on in the voluntary and not-for-profit sector. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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All Episodes

43:49

Election, inflection and the Chelsea Flower Show

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/05/24

Lucinda and Andy discuss the road ahead for charities following Wednesday’s general election announcement.Later in the episode, Lucinda and Emily are joined by the strategy specialist Sharath Jeevan and Hannah Stevens, chief executive of Elect Her. They discuss the importance of inflection moments in planning an organisation’s strategic direction.Then Lucinda travels to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show to look around three of the charity gardens sponsored by Project Giving Back.She speaks to Richard

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31:56

Paul Streets on small charity cockroaches

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/05/17

Lucinda and Emily are joined by Paul Streets, chief executive of the Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales, to reflect on more than a decade of working with small charities as he prepares to step down.Paul celebrates the resilience of small charities, likening them to cockroaches for their ability to endure challenging environments, and suggests ways in which funders can step up to better support them. He calls on charities to join forces in advocating for change that transcends cause

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23:58

World Vision UK’s chief on African philanthropy and...

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/05/10

Lucinda and Emily are joined by Fola Komolafe, chief executive of World Vision UK, to discuss the charity’s role in a wider drive to integrate African philanthropists into the established global charitable landscape.Fola also provides her views on the merits of child sponsorship and the growing recognition of the importance of faith-based charities in delivering programmes in the UK and abroad.Charity Changed My Life features the story of a couple whose lives were turned around after the Kent,

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34:04

Funding for small charities

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/05/03

Lucinda and Emily are joined by Mary Rose Gunn, founder and chief executive of the small charity funder The Fore, to discuss the challenging funding environment facing small charities.They start by listening to an account by Jane Evans, chief executive of West Norfolk Carers, about the growing difficulty of securing enough funding to keep the charity afloat.Mary Rose explains why trusts and foundations have historically erred towards supporting specific projects rather than offering unrestricted

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26:38

How to manage your volunteers

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/04/26

Lucinda and Emily are joined by Holly Penalver, founder of Indigo Volunteers and volunteer development manager at ShelterBox, and Karolina Praskova, a volunteer at the education charity Climate Ed.Holly provides pointers for effectively managing the volunteer recruitment stage and stresses the importance of an induction to motivate new volunteers and make them feel appreciated. She also outlines the value of conducting an exit interview when volunteers leave an organisation.Karolina describes her

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31:47

The End of Charity episode 6: What is a world without...

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/04/23

In November 2023, the finance officer of West Norfolk Carers came to a devastating realisation: after more than a year of rejected funding applications, the charity wouldn’t be able to stay afloat for longer than four months.Several months earlier, the Lankelly Chase Foundation, a grantmaker tackling severe social disadvantage and extreme marginalisation, had reached a similarly terminal conclusion.After finding that its very existence perpetuated past harms and injustices, the foundation’s leaders

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26:57

Placing people at the forefront of tech innovations

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/04/19

Lucinda and Andy are joined by Matt Corbishley, deputy chief executive of Ashgate Hospice, to discuss the charity’s use of new tech solutions in its operations and service delivery.Matt explains why Ashgate Hospice encourages staff to experiment with new forms of IT and artificial intelligence, and outlines the benefits of a digital apprenticeship programme to train existing team members.He provides pointers for other charity leaders considering their approach to new technology and recommends

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27:50

The End of Charity episode 5: Power in the wrong hands

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/04/16

When The Times newspaper’s chief reporter Sean O’Neill broke the story that senior Oxfam aid workers had committed sexual abuse while working in the disaster zone of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, it sent shockwaves around the charity sector and wider society.O’Neill reflects on his memories of uncovering the scandal, while experts including Chilande Kuloba-Warria and Martha Awojobi discuss how the very foundations of charity can create imbalances of power – and environments in which abuse can

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29:41

The traumatic side of charity work

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/04/12

Lucinda and Emily are joined by the author and mental health consultant Dimple Dhabalia.Dimple warns of the dangers facing organisations that focus on their charitable mission at the expense of staff wellbeing. She notes the sense of guilt often felt by humanitarian workers suffering the effects of workplace trauma.She provides pointers for how organisations can make staff wellbeing a cornerstone of internal policies and processes, including prioritising social connections, supporting rest and

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29:22

The End of Charity episode 4: The political chokehold

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/04/09

In May 2018, three climate activists called time on lukewarm campaigning over the climate crisis. They wanted a different and radical approach.The plan: mass civil disobedience. The name: Extinction Rebellion.And the first major act of the movement? Stage an occupation – of the Greenpeace offices in London.Why is it that charities are so often perceived to be “the opposite of disruptive?” Experts including The Wildlife Trusts’ chief executive, Craig Bennett, and the domestic violence campaigner

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28:19

What’s happening to individual giving?

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/04/05

Lucinda and Andyare joined by Philippa Cornish, head of client experience at the Charities Aid Foundation.They discuss the implications of CAF’s report into individual giving, which found a smaller pool of donors giving more led to a total uplift in 2023 in spite of the median monthly figure remaining stagnant at £20 since 2017.Philippa provides suggestions for how charities can encourage donors to adjust their monthly donations in line with inflation, including by enhancing trust, and to contribute

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32:00

The End of Charity episode 3: Who are charities missing?

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/04/02

Why donate to a charity if you can just help out a fellow human yourself – or buy a piece of premium fashion that promises to generate a similar result?In episode three of The End of Charity, Lucinda Rouse explores two very different alternatives to the charity model: mutual aid theory, and the rise of buzzy “for good” business.The activist and founder of Mutual Aid UK, Eshe Kiama Zuri, discusses mutual aid as an alternative to the “oppressive dynamics” of traditional charitable

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34:33

In conversation with Dhivya O’Connor

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/03/28

Lucinda and Emily Burt are joined by Dhivya O’Connor, chief executive of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women.Dhivya provides insight into her previous experiences as an interim chief executive, describing the pros and cons of holding a short-term leadership role, and stresses the importance of cultivating a healthy organisational culture from the outset.She talks about the foundation’s recent research into the use of artificial intelligence by female entrepreneurs and the need for charity leaders

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29:01

The End of Charity episode 2: Can MrBeast save humanity?

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/03/26

Meet Jimmy Donaldson, perhaps better known as MrBeast –the 25-year-old YouTuber who some say is on the verge of sparking a revolution in online philanthropy.With more than 236 million YouTube subscribers and an estimated net worth of $500m, MrBeast has turned his focus from filling houses with Lego bricks to curing blind people and building wells.Lucinda asks Darren Margolias, the executive director of Jimmy’s charitable venture Beast Philanthropy, why MrBeast’s storytelling may have the edge over

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31:58

The hidden history of fundraising

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/03/22

Lucinda and Andy are joined by the fundraising historian Marina Jones to track the development of the fundraising profession and perceptions of charity fundraisers through the ages.Marina, who is leading a history project for the think tank Rogare, traces the roots of fundraising back to the time of Moses. She draws parallels between contemporary fundraising methods and instances of their use centuries before, as well as past mistakes that could be avoided by better knowledge of fundraising

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20:55

The End of Charity episode 1: The food bank era

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/03/19

Last year the UK food bank network the Trussell Trust distributed almost 3 million emergency food parcels, 1 million of which were for children, up from 50,000 a decade ago.How has the UK landed in such a severe hunger crisis – and can food banks ever be the solution?In episode one of The End of Charity, journalist Lucinda Rouse hears from the Trussell Trust’s chief executive, Emma Revie, about the need to reimagine our social contract at a time when demand for charities is greater than ever.And the

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33:52

Charities’ use of artificial intelligence

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/03/15

Lucinda and Emily are joined by the digital specialist Zoe Amar and Karen Marter, head of technology strategy at the British Heart Foundation.Zoe outlines key developments in the AI space over the past year and how charities are reacting to them, including the use of virtual assistants in working life. She stresses the need for a sector-level response to the increasing normalisation of AI usage.Karen describes the function of the BHF’s AI working group, which focuses on education, governance and

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2:34

Coming soon: The End of Charity

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/03/13

In a world where need is spiralling out of control and new, radical forces are shaping the landscape for doing good, can charity be the answer to the world’s social and environmental problems?Lucinda Rouse presents The End of Charity, a new podcast series from the makers of Third Sector.Guided by some of the leading voices of the philanthropy world, as well as radicals who believe the current model is on the brink of implosion, Lucinda asks: what are the flaws and contradictions baked into the ways

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30:46

In conversation with the British Heart Foundation’s...

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/03/08

Lucinda and Emily are joined by Charmaine Griffiths, chief executive of the British Heart Foundation, to reflect on the voluntary sector’s female-dominated workforce and the challenges facing women on their path to senior leadership positions.Charmaine stresses her conviction that charities need to be representative of the communities they exist to support. She describes heart disease as a disease of inequality, reflected in the fact that only one in eight cardiologists are women.She acknowledges

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34:31

The world of legacy fundraising

Third Sector Podcast ·

2024/03/01

Lucinda and Emily are joined by Anaish Yilma-Parmar, head of legacies at the British Red Cross, and Lucinda Frostick, director at Remember a Charity.Lucinda (Frostick) provides an overview of the legacy market, worth more than £4bn annually, and expectations for further growth in spite of current economic challenges and a probate backlog.Anaish describes how the British Red Cross takes a collaborative approach across the charity’s fundraising and marketing teams to engage supporters through clear

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