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Guest blog: Carry On Campaigning
Rumours are swirling that charities have been silenced by the...
Government should be clearer on charities and campaigning
With three recent reports saying that campaigning is a central...
Don’t design campaigns to fit evaluation models
Measurement and evaluation is often a fraught business, particularly...
Lessons from east Africa
The chief executive of the Sheila McKechnie Foundation reports from...
We need strong leaders. Why not campaigners?
It has become a platitude to say that we live in increasingly...
Our survey suggests we might be self-censoring
It is imperative that charities do campaign, and with real courage...
SMK Campaigner Survey: 90% think campaigning is under threat
The results from the first annual SMK Campaigner Survey have been...
A government that stops listening
At the Sheila McKechnie Foundation, we don’t take a view on the...
The three broad types of charity campaigners
A question that campaigners regularly ponder is: what is it that...
Distinguish between the three campaign models
Summer can be a good time to step back and find space and time to...
Could charities have swung the vote behind the European Union?
Charities still retain huge levels of trust, but were constrained...
The government might learn from EU debate
Encouraging charities to campaign is crucial as the whole concept of...
Where are the females in the campaigning canon?!
For someone who has spent most of her career in the women’s...
It’s our campaigning that sustains the third sector!
Our columnist was taken aback when someone suggested the most...
A climate of fear that is damaging campaigning
The chief executive of a large grant-giving trust recently told me...
Changing attitudes is as vital as probing policy
A narrow interpretation of campaigning does no good for anyone in...
Campaigning should be regarded as a profession
This is my first column as the new chief executive of the Sheila...
New CEO for Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK)
The Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK) has appointed a new Chief...
Is the CS Strategy just papering over the cracks of a rocky relationship?
The relationship between Government and civil society has not been...
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