Nikkileah 🎮🚄🏳️⚧️🇬🇧Just want to promote https://www.northwalesaccessibleholidaysforblindandvisuallyimpaired.org/
As a fine & worthy charity (just assisting a member of their lovely team) .
Please give them a look and donate if possible!
Will Ranjan-ChurchillAnd if you're in the UK Charity sector and haven't filled out the survey yet, you still have time.
Super interesting interim findings from the 2026 Charity Digital Skills Report. Including:
- A third (33%) of charities are now using AI to support governance and compliance (e.g. drafting policies, board reporting, etc)
Any yet,
- Nearly half (49%) of charities are concerned about moving forward with AI due to fears around data privacy, GDPR, and security
Have a read here: https://zoeamar.com/2026/03/26/early-insights-from-the-2026-charity-digital-skills-report-survey-ai/
#ai #tech #charities #charitydigireport #charitydigital #ukcharity
Jo RhodesJust heard about this excellent micro fundraising idea #CharityNinjas which was started by the comedian Jason Manford.. there is a FB page too but they promote small UK charities struggling to reach crowdfunding targets on #JustGiving and encourage people to swoop in and donate £2 and they reach the target in hours. Nominations and more info on this page https://thecharityninjas.co.uk/ #charity #donate #UKCharity #GoodNews
Don't mean this to be a rant.. but I don't think people realise how bad the funding crisis is in the UK for #UKCharity #CommunityBusiness and similar organisations doing great work. Increased costs of wages, National Insurance, energy bills, equipment, food at a time of increasing need and massive reduction in donations and grants available are all creating a real shit storm. Some funders are significantly changing priorities which means, in our case, we can no longer apply to some who have always supported us in the past. I know of several previously very successful organisations currently close to bankruptcy. We are OK ish for the next 6 months and have a good chunk of regular income from long term room hire which helps pay rent, bills and wages for our office manager.. but getting money for staffing is increasingly hard. The timescales involved in applying to some of the larger funders are a big factor too. The UK Lottery Community Fund take 16 weeks to make a decision and you can't apply until current funding is nearly finished. We are losing a key staff member soon - he's got a job elsewhere as his funding runs out end of this month and we don't yet know if we have Lottery money to pay his wages after that.
Moving away from #mailchimp for the community project I run and want something Europe based.. looking at #Brevo #Mailjet which both look fine and free versions will be more than enough for our needs..but just spotted #Systeme too which has email marketing but many other features which may be useful in the future. Any thoughts or comments from people using any of these. Only need it for general sporadic emails to our business and community supporters about events and news for now .. but may want to sell things like seeds, plants, recipe books, upcycled fabric things at some time in the future. #UkCharity #nonprofit #communitybusiness
Leigh GarlandHere's a question for every large #UKcharity and principled organisation that I might care about...
https://lrg.io/technology-and-our-future/why-are-you-still-on-x/
Charlotte JoanneIn the UK, £40 million is spent each year on fundraising by the guide dogs charity 🐕🦺💷. This is £10,000 per dog 🐾. There are around 4,000 working guide dogs 👀🐶.
#GuideDogs #Accessibility #Disability #Blind #UKCharity #AssistanceDogs #IndependenceThroughSupport
Newsmast Foundation"It took a long while to persuade the UK Charity Commission that micro-blogging could be educational, rather than shit-posting, dunking, engagement-hacking, disinformation or whatever else it people use it for. But we did it."
Our co-founder @michael has just published an exciting update on The Newsmast Foundation and where we're going next.
Check it out 👉 https://www.blog-pat.ch/a-different-web/
#Fediverse #Mastodon #FediDev #UKCharity #SocialMedia #SocialWeb
"We can have a different web, if we want it"
The run up to FediForum was hard, as we worked to pull a ton of things together. After taking a month off to recharge, this blog is back in action. It’s almost our birthday We’re coming up on the one year anniversary of the launch of Newsmast -
A.StringerThe 2025 #CommunityGarden Grants scheme is open for applications from Monday 9th September until noon on 28th October 2024.
#CommunityGardenGrants - #NationalGardenScheme
https://ngs.org.uk/who-we-are/community-garden-grants/
#gardening
#gardeningprojects
#communitygardenfunding
#UKcommunitygardens
#UKcharity
