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  • Finding Your Conference or Event Sponsors: A New Free Guide for Small Charities

    If you’ve ever thought “I’d love to run a conference, but where would we get the money?” — this post is for you. We’ve just released a new free guidance document called “Antworks Community Sponsorship Guidance”, and we’re genuinely excited about it because it tackles something that many small charities find mysterious and intimidating: sponsorship.…

  • Your Story (or Theory) of Change: A Simple Guide for Small Charities

    Argh, what are you on about?! You know that feeling when someone at a networking event starts talking about your “Theory of Change?” and your brain freezes? You might think it’s some complicated consultant-speak that you need a degree to understand, or you might just be heartily sick of consultant-speak that makes simple things sound…

  • Finding the Joy in Impact: Why the New SORP Requirements Could Be Your Best News Yet..

    From January 1, 2026, something important shifts in the charity world. The updated Charities Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) now mandates impact reporting as a “must” for all charities. For some, this news lands like yet another compliance burden. But what if we told you this could be where the real joy of charity work…

  • Your Friend Asked You to Be a Charity Trustee: Here’s Five Questions you should Ask

    Trustees (sometimes known as Board Members or Directors) are the lifeblood of UK charities both large and small. However, especially for small charities, we hear too often that becoming a Trustee happened because of ‘who you know’ rather than ‘what you know’. What do you really need to ask? Your friend has asked you to…

  • Writing Reports Iceberg Style

    “My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”― Ernest Hemingway In my work with social purpose projects, I often come across images of icebergs as a metaphor for what is unseen, alongside advice and guidance advising that we should ‘lower the waterline’.…

  • Some thoughts about AI (artificial intelligence)

    I may be late to the party (fashionably so I hope). I’ve begun thinking about what policies and guidance are going to be needed and might work best for community-led charities using AI. So I asked ChatGPT! Using slightly different language or perspectives each time, such as service clients, project participants, staff and board members,…

  • Jargon – lose it or use it?

    My LinkedIn friend is doing astounding ‘heart and shield’-led work, in a way that few of us could.  Drawing on her (horrifying) childhood experiences, she is energising the changes she wants to see. I say heart-led because she is open and warm; and shield-led because her mission is all about people being safe and protected.…