This is a special episode where we present the recent ThinkNPC discussion on AI, presented by Tris Lumley, with guests Tania Duarte and Rhodri Davies. They speak about the opportunities, risks, benefits and challenges that AI poses for the charity sector, and how charities and their leadership might navigate these.

E254 - ThinkNPC Discussion On AI

https://thecommunists.org/2023/06/22/news/st-mungos-homeless-charity-workers-strike-decent-wages-inflation/

Homeless charity workers on strike for decent wages

In this episode we speak with Bernadette Murphy, Fundraising Manager at Blind Low Vision NZ. We speak about her experience of moving to a four-day working week, what other charities should think about before trialling it, and the pros and cons of doing so.

E257 - The Four - Day Working Week With Bernadette Murphy

In this episode we speak with Bernard McCabe, Founder and Director of Dreamscape Solutions about the benefit and need of charities using KPIs, and specifically in relation to developing and improving donor recognition and long-term relationship building with donors.

E258 - Measuring Charity Key Performance Indicators With Bernard McCabe

In this episode we speak with Duro Oyé, CEO and founder of the multi award winning, social enterprise, 20/20 Levels. We speak to Duro about building effective corporate partnerships that deliver real impact for charities, the challenges that these can pose and how to navigate them.

E259 - Corporate Partnerships With Duro Oyé

We spoke with Joe Nicholson (he/him), Head of Copy at Consider Creative, about the recent report he co-authored entitled ‘Illusion or disillusion – how do LGBT+ people in the UK really feel about giving to charities?’. The research carried out by Consider reveals there’s a lot more that charities could, and should, be doing to represent and engage with the diverse LGBT+ community.  Handily it also provides a huge amount of insight and practical guidance on how to go about doing that in a genuine and meaningful way, that will inspire LGBT+ people to give.

E260 - How LGBT+ People Really Feel About Giving To Charities With Joe Nicholson

In this episode we speak with Jeremy Hay, Chief Executive Officer, and Simon Steed, Your Voice Engagement Manager at Talkback UK, about the challenges that their charity is facing as they seek to support autistic people and people with learning disabilities. We talk about how working with councils and other charities is helping them to deliver their work and how they are working with businesses to meet their member’s needs.

E261 - Driving Change For Autistic And Learning Disabled People With Jeremy Hay And Simon Steed

In this episode we speak with Manjeet Pabla, fundraiser, coach, consultant and mentor at Lumos Consulting. We speak about mentoring and how it can help senior leaders but also managers and teams of staff throughout charities. We also touch on how mentoring could have helped us in hindsight to have dealt with challenges in the past.

E263 - Mentoring In Charity With Manjeet Pabla

In this episode we speak with Helen Gray, Trust Director at Benefact Trust about the role that churches play in the charity sector. We talk about the part they play in developing a sense of community and what charities can do to both support and benefit from working with them to further their work.

E264 - Churches And The Charity Sector With Helen Gray

In this episode we speak with Charlotte Lamb, Principal for Involvement and Decision Making at NPC, about lived experience. We talk about why charities should consider bringing lived experience into their organisational culture and why this is important and could help them to thrive.

E267 - Lived Experience With Charlotte Lamb

In this episode, we speak with Emma Bracegirdle, friend of the show and founder of The Saltways, who we spoke with back in episode 262 or the podcast about ethical content creation and the importance of it in telling authentic and sensitive stories. In this episode we speak with Emma about her experience of running thank-a-thons, and what charities should consider before doing this, and how it can help improve supporter retention and increase a sense of loyalty and desire to give.

E269 - Thank-a-thons With Emma Bracegirdle

In this episode, producers Samuel Davies and Rachael Conroy look back over the past year of podcasts and reflect on what has been said.

E270 - Recap Of 2023

In this episode we speak with friend of the show, Giles Pegram CBE, about fundraising, how it may or may not be changing, and some fundraising first principles that we can all benefit from keeping in mind. Giles is a seasoned fundraiser with heaps of expertise and it was great to catchup up with him again.

E271 - Fundraising First Principles With Giles Pegram CBE

In this episode we speak with Linda Hien and Meghan Roach from New Horizon Youth Centre.

We talk about their work with young people, and the recent collaboration with the LSE on a new report that focusses on the barriers to support for young people facing homelessness.

E273 - Tackling Youth Homelessness With Meghan Roach and Linda Hien

In this episode we speak with Laura Croudace about storytelling. We speak about why good storytelling is so crucial for all charities and what those with limited resource can do to tell their stories to raise their profile and speak to people in a deep and meaningful way.

E274 - Storytelling With Laura Croudace

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Provocations and rent-a-crowds as imperialists try Maidan 2.0 in Georgia

https://thecommunists.org/2025/01/31/news/collapsing-empire-ned-overt-operations-hidden/

RIP CIA front’s ‘overt operations’

https://thecommunists.org/2025/02/05/news/usa-unstoppable-superweapon-regime-change-ned/

Washington's unstoppable superweapon

https://thecommunists.org/2025/06/05/news/care-workers-strike-against-poverty-scotland/

Enable care workers strike against poverty pay in Scotland

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