Third Sector Podcast
Episodes
World Vision UK’s chief on African philanthropy and child sponsorship
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Afric...
Funding for small charities
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
How to manage your volunteers
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by Holly Penalver, founder of Indigo Volunteers and volunteer development manager at ShelterBox, and Karolina Praskova, a...
The End of Charity episode 6: What is a world without charity?
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In November 2023, the finance officer of West Norfolk Carers came to a devastating realisation: after more than a year of rejected funding application...
Placing people at the forefront of tech innovations
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The End of Charity episode 5: Power in the wrong hands
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
The traumatic side of charity work
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by the author and mental health consultant Dimple Dhabalia. Dimple warns of the dangers facing organisations that fo...
The End of Charity episode 4: The political chokehold
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2018, three climate activists called time on lukewarm campaigning over the climate crisis. They wanted a different and radical approach.The pla...
What’s happening to individual giving?
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy are joined by Philippa Cornish, head of client experience at the Charities Aid Foundation. They discuss the implications of...
The End of Charity episode 3: Who are charities missing?
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 res...
In conversation with Dhivya O’Connor
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily Burt are joined by Dhivya O’Connor, chief executive of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women.Dhivya provides insight into her prev...
The End of Charity episode 2: Can MrBeast save humanity?
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 onlin...
The hidden history of fundraising
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy are joined by the fundraising historian Marina Jones to track the development of the fundraising profession and perceptions of charit...
The End of Charity episode 1: The food bank era
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 fr...
Charities’ use of artificial intelligence
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by the digital specialist Zoe Amar and Karen Marter, head of technology strategy at the British Heart Foundation.Zoe outl...
Coming soon: The End of Charity
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
In conversation with the British Heart Foundation’s first female boss
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by Charmaine Griffiths, chief executive of the British Heart Foundation, to reflect on the voluntary sector’s female-do...
The world of legacy fundraising
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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.L...
Behind the scenes of a £300m fundraising appeal & Amnesty International UK CEO interview
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy are joined by Liz Tait, fundraising director at Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, to discuss progress with the chari...
Maximising your online fundraising potential
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by Suzy Edington, fundraising consultant at JustGiving, and Ellie Putt, senior participant experience manager at the Alzh...
Combatting toxic workplace culture and understanding new charity merger trends
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy are joined by the organisational psychologist and author Dr Susan Hetrick to discuss the drivers of and barriers to workplace toxicit...
The power of language
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by Hatty Evans, head of brand and marketing at Magic Breakfast, and Georgie Howlett, managing director of Stand Agency, t...
Labour’s charm offensive, social media burnout and stimulating philanthropy
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy dissect a recent speech delivered by the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to charity bosses, in which he pledged to reset the relations...
Building your charity’s resilience
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by Ashling Cashmore, head of impact and advisory at the Charities Aid Foundation, and Mandy Rollins, chief executive of D...
What’s driving the cost-of-living crisis?
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by Tom MacInnes, chief analyst at Citizens Advice, to discuss how the charity is using its unique position to improve und...
What does 2024 have in store for charities?
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by Jane Ide, chief executive of Acevo, and Sue Tibballs, chief executive of the Sheila McKechnie Foundation, to discuss s...
The 2023 festive retrospective
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda, Andy and Emily discuss the leading stories and trends from the voluntary sector in 2023.Lucinda delivers an against-the-clock round-up of the...
How to formulate a winning trustee board
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by Ian Joseph, managing director of Trustees Unlimited, to talk about what charities need to think about when creating an...
The pros and cons of a four-day week
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy are joined by Miriam Turner, co-executive director of Friends of the Earth, and Victoria Benson, chief executive of the single-parent...
Julie Bentley on staff and volunteer wellbeing at Samaritans
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by Julie Bentley, chief executive of Samaritans, to find out how the charity has rebuilt its volunteer base after it shra...
Engaging university students in charity work
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Rory are joined by Wajid Akhter, founder of Charity Week, a student and volunteer-led campaign of Islamic Relief, and Harry Twohig, commun...
Preventing knife crime: how art can break a cycle of offending
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the team at Third Sector comes The Diff – a new podcast that spotlights the work of small charities and not-for-profits.In the f...
Preventing knife crime: turning young people into lifesavers
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the team at Third Sector comes The Diff – a new podcast that spotlights the work of small charities and not-for-profits.In the second epis...
What's behind the knife crime epidemic?
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the team at Third Sector comes The Diff – a new podcast that spotlights the work of small charities and not-for-profits. In the first epis...
Demystifying social investment
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy are joined by Katy Saunders, director at Social Finance, and Mark Jarman-Howe, chief executive of St Helena Hospice, to discuss how c...
Knowing where to focus in the face of never-ending need
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by Rebecca Gray, chief executive of Maudsley Charity, a grant-maker for mental health projects.Rebecca describes how the ...
A day in the life of a charity policy adviser
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda takes a look behind the scenes at Barnardo’s as she shadows a day in the life of Becky Rice, the charity’s senior policy adviser for menta...
Attracting and retaining younger volunteers
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Rory are joined by Sophie Tebbetts, head of programmes at the food poverty charity FoodCycle, to learn about the different techniques used...
Conversations from a new charity podcast
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily introduce The Diff: a new podcast from Third Sector, currently in its pilot stage, which champions the work of small charities, gras...
Staying out of trouble with celebrity talent
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Rory are joined by the talent director Paul Cullen to discuss how charities can form fruitful partnerships with celebrities. Pau...
Increasing your charity’s influence
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy are joined by Duncan Shrubsole, director of policy, communications and research at the Lloyds Bank Foundation, and Elizabeth Jiménez...
Neurodiversity in the charity workforce
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by James Cusack, chief executive of Autistica, to debunk some common misconceptions about neurodivergence and neurodivers...
Multi-layered corporate partnerships
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by the fundraising consultant Lynda Harwood-Compton to discuss successful partnerships between charities and corporate en...
In conversation with a charity leadership coach
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Rory are joined by the charity coach Steve Allman to discuss how voluntary sector leaders can be better supported in their increasingly de...
The function of faith-based charities
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Rory are joined by Judith Moran, director of Quaker Social Action, and Jehangir Malik, policy and engagement director at Mercy Mission UK,...
Measuring the impact of your efforts to be greener
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by Carol Botten, chief executive of the north east voluntary sector network Vonne, and Jack Chellman, chief project offic...
A day in the life of a charity procurement expert
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda travels to London Zoo to meet the Zoological Society of London’s head of procurement, Sara Muller.Sara gives the low-down on the ins an...
The problem of pay in the voluntary sector
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by Leann Cross, director of the childcare support charity Home-Start Greenwich, to explore how inflationary pressures are...
How funders can respond to the climate emergency
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by Natasha Ratter, environmental sector lead at the Environmental Funders Network, and Rachel Heydecker, senior policy an...
Corporate partnerships for small charities
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Emily are joined by Graeme Marsh, head of the McCarthy Stone Foundation, to explore the evolving relationship between voluntary organisati...
Bringing the environment into your mission
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy are joined by Janet Thorne, chief executive of Reach Volunteering, to hear how the charity has stepped up its efforts to fight climat...
Who’s most affected by the climate crisis?
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy are joined by Jabeer Butt, chief executive of the Race Equality Foundation, to learn about how the climate crisis is disproportionate...
The secret to a stand-out charity brand
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy are joined by Nick Daniel, marketing director at Dogs Trust, and Denholm Scotford, sector head for technology, media, telecoms a...
How to land a high-net-worth donor
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy are joined by Cathy Pharoah, visiting professor of charity funding at Bayes Business School. Cathy provides tips on the right wa...
Peter Wanless on leading the NSPCC
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy hear from the head of the children’s charity on leadership, government engagement and sticking to a purpose.They discuss the differ...
Support for small charities
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Alina are joined by Sarah Vibert, chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, and Vic Hancock Fell, organiser of ...
Third Sector Podcast Live from the Fundraising Summit
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Acting editor Andy Ricketts is joined by reporters Lucinda Rouse, Russ Hargrave and Alina Martin and, for the first time, a live audience for a specia...
Why all charities should be focusing on food
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Alina are joined by Courtney Scott, head of policy and research at the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, and James Goodman, direct...
Why charities need to be on Newsnight
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy are joined by Craig Bennett, chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts, to talk about the need for voluntary sector leaders to contribut...
Getting the most out of Gift Aid
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Russ are joined by Neil Heslop, chief executive of the Charities Aid Foundation, to discuss how voluntary organisations can maximise their...
Telling the whole story in your promo campaigns
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Alina are joined by the diversity, equity and inclusion specialist Natalia-Nana Lester-Bush and Rick Dodds, creative partner at the advert...
Should charities be clamouring for royal patrons?
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda, Alina and Russ mark the Coronation by examining the royal patronage system and possible changes during the reign of King Charles III, with hi...
How can grant-givers make funding fairer?
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Russ are joined by Sarah Denselow, principal for effective philanthropy at the think tank New Philanthropy Capital, and Yvonne Field, chie...
A day in the life of a grant-maker
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda takes a look behind the scenes of Comic Relief’s grant-making team with Poonam D’Cruze, head of the charity’s poverty and injustice prog...
Charities and ChatGPT
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Russ are joined by Jonathan Chevallier, chief executive of Charity Digital, and Angus Gregory, chief executive of Biomni, to talk about ho...
Sarah Hughes on Mind, mental health and the role of charities
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Russ are joined by Sarah Hughes, chief executive of Mind, to discuss her plans for the charity, her views on the need to reform the volunt...
Are we on the brink of a volunteering boom?
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy are joined by Catherine Johnstone, chief executive of the Royal Voluntary Service, and Matt Hyde, chief executive of The Scouts, to t...
Navigating the social media moral maze
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Alina are joined by Kirsty Marrins, the digital communications specialist and a trustee of CharityComms, to talk about the minefield that ...
Priya Singh on NCVO’s culture reform
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Russ are joined by Priya Singh, chair of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, who led the NCVO's internal reform after a revi...
Is gaming a charity goldmine?
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Alina are joined by Georgia Paton, gaming and streaming manager at the British Red Cross, and Tom Downie, UK charity manager at the fundra...
How I tripled my charity’s income in four years
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Alina are joined by Kat Dixon, outgoing director of partnerships at Catch22, whose team tripled the charity’s voluntary income in the sp...
Demystifying Omaze
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy are joined by James Oakes, chief international officer at Omaze, and Paul McKenzie, director of engagement at the Teenage Cancer Trus...
To merge or not to merge?
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Russ are joined by Keith Valentine, chief executive of Fight for Sight, to look behind the scenes of the sight loss research charity’s o...
Building fruitful cross-charity collaborations
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Russ are joined by Campbell Chalmers, strategic engagement lead for the third sector at the RNIB and Joseph Howes, chief executive of the ...
International development and Hilary McGrady
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Russ are joined by Stephanie Draper, chief executive of Bond, to talk about issues affecting the international development sector.Stephani...
Lord O’Donnell on the future of civil society
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Alina are joined by Lord Gus O’Donnell, former Cabinet secretary and chair of Pro Bono Economics, to discuss the findings and recommenda...
Accept, refuse or repay? How to deal with funding from dubious sources
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Alina are joined by Ian MacQuillin, director of the fundraising think tank Rogare, to consider the ethics around accepting monetary gifts ...
Raid or replenish? How to manage your reserves
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Russ are joined by the Charity Finance Group’s chief executive, Caron Bradshaw, and special adviser, Pesh Framjee, to talk about how cha...
What does 2023 have in store for charities?
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy are joined by Debra Allcock Tyler, chief executive of the Directory of Social Change, to discuss the year ahead in the voluntary sect...
The 2022 festive retrospective
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Third Sector team looks back at the top stories of the year in a special festive episode.Acting editor Andy Ricketts is joined by reporters Lucind...
Planning in times of crisis
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Russ are joined by Emily Wilson, chief executive of Irise International, and Martyn Drake, founder of Binley Drake Consulting, t...
Charity Christmas campaigns
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Alina are joined by Nana Crawford, social media manager at the British Red Cross, and Hannah Akitt, strategist at the marketing agency Raw...
Jumping on the charity shop boom
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Alina visit London’s Portobello Road to peruse the rails and speak to the managers of some of the capital’s boutique charity shops abo...
Maintaining healthy workforce relations
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy are joined by Antonia Bance, head of campaigns, communications and digital at the Trades Union Congress, and Idris Arshad, people and...
Innovation at Islamic Relief
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Russ are joined by Zia Salik, head of fundraising at Islamic Relief, to discuss some of the innovations behind the charity’s record grow...
How can charities use TikTok?
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Alina seek to demystify TikTok with the help of Rebs Curtis-Moss, interim social media manager at Shelter, who previously worked at the RN...
Making trustee boards more youthful
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russ and Lucinda celebrate Trustees Week by speaking to Liv Clarke and Ria Shah, trustees at the youth leadership charity Reclaim and the conservation...
Podcasting for charities
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Russ speak to Vic Turnbull, founder of the podcast production and training company MIC Media, about the various ways charities can use pod...
Charity campaigning in times of political uncertainty
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lucinda and Andy speak to Sue Tibballs, chief executive of the Sheila McKechnie Foundation, about attitudes towards campaigning by charities in t...
Fundraising for 'difficult' causes
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Senior news reporter Russell Hargrave and reporter Alina Martin speak to Anne Fox, chief executive of Clinks, and Riana Taylor, chief executive of Cir...
Should charity bosses get bonuses?
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Senior multimedia reporter Lucinda Rouse and acting editor Andy Ricketts speak to David Fielding, managing partner of the recruitment firm Attenti, ab...
Mutually beneficial corporate partnerships
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Acting editor Andy Ricketts and senior multimedia reporter Lucinda Rouse discuss the findings of a new report looking into corporate partnerships. The...
Young people and volunteering
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, senior news reporter Russell Hargrave and acting editor Andy Ricketts examine the factors affecting volunteering among young people. T...
The Queen's charitable legacy
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, senior news reporter Russell Hargrave and acting editor Andy Ricketts reflect on the death of Queen Elizabeth II and discuss the charitable...
The Fundraising Regulator's new strategy
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, senior news reporter Russell Hargrave and news editor Andy Ricketts talk to Gerald Oppenheim, chief executive of the Fundraising Regulator,...
The charity wage gap
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Senior news reporter Russell Hargrave and editor Emily Burt sit down with Nicole Sykes, director of policy and communications at the think tank Pro Bo...
The controversies around Prince Charles' charities
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
News editor Andy Ricketts and senior news reporter Russell Hargrave are joined by Charles Keidan, editor of Alliance magazine, to talk about the contr...
The Conservative leadership race
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Senior news reporter Russell Hargrave and editor Emily Burt discuss the two candidates hoping to be the next Prime Minister. Do Rishi Sunak and L...
Creating clear anti-bullying policies
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
News editor Andy Ricketts and senior news reporter Russell Hargrave meet Holly Riley, head of strategic policy at the Charity Commission, and Julie De...
The fuel and energy crisis
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
News editor Andy Ricketts and senior news reporter Russell Hargrave talk to Ed Wallis, head of policy at the community organisation support charity Lo...