Good Charity Bad Charity

The GCBC team consider the challenging world of fundraising and find out about how charities can use digital technology to link up with businesses which want to support them.  Keith, Camilla and David meet Veronica Bamford-Deane, Managing Director of the Work For Good platform.  She tells them about how the organisation is helping charities to raise funds from small businesses, why she believes that many new businesses want to do good from the start and the appeal to customers of businesses which embed charitable giving.

Good Charity, Bad Charity is presented by Keith Davis, Camilla McGibbon and David Prest. This episode was produced by Dan Hardoon and Louise Adamson at Whistledown and it’s supported by the Centre for Charity Effectiveness.  The Work For Good website is https://workforgood.co.uk

There’s a sporty theme to this latest podcast as the GCBC team are joined by Paul Evans, the CEO of Leadership Through Sport & Business.  Paul explains how the charity uses sport to develop leadership skills and help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds into careers with major firms.    

Good Charity, Bad Charity is presented by Keith Davis, Camilla McGibbon and David Prest.  It is produced by Dan Hardoon at Whistledown and supported by the Centre for Charity Effectiveness.  The Leadership Through Sport & Business website is  https://ltsb.charity 

Founded 20 years ago, Magic Breakfast provides healthy school breakfasts to children at risk of hunger in disadvantaged areas of the UK, working with nearly 1,000 schools in England and Scotland. The GCBC team are joined by the charity’s Head of Policy and Campaigns, Alysa Remtulla, to discuss how the pandemic has changed its delivery model, the plan to train up 10 campaigners with lived experience of food insecurity, and why Magic Breakfast won’t be entering a bid for the new government tender to supply school breakfasts.

Good Charity, Bad Charity is presented by Keith Davis, Camilla McGibbon and David Prest. It is produced by Dan Hardoon at Whistledown and supported by the Centre for Charity Effectiveness.

The GCBC team are joined by Steph Harland, CEO of Age UK. Steph explains the steps taken by the national charity and local Age UK branches to support older people during Covid, the reasons for the decision to permanently close about a third of Age UK's charity shops; and shares her frustration at the government's lack of action on a long-term solution for social care.

Good Charity, Bad Charity is presented by Keith Davis, Camilla McGibbon and David Prest. It is produced by Dan Hardoon at Whistledown and supported by the Centre for Charity Effectiveness and City Bridge Trust.

The GCBC team are joined by Mike Adamson, CEO of the British Red Cross. Mike discusses the charity's role in responding to Covid, how he's planning to manage a significant deficit in BRC's income over the coming years, and what the pandemic has revealed about volunteering.

Good Charity, Bad Charity is presented by Keith Davis, Camilla McGibbon and David Prest. It is produced by Dan Hardoon at Whistledown and supported by the Centre for Charity Effectiveness and City Bridge Trust.

The GCBC team are joined by Matt Leach, CEO of Local Trust, which delivers Big Local: a 15-year programme which distributes £1.15m of funding to 150 neighbourhoods across England "with no strings attached to use as they see fit". Matt discusses the ethos of Big Local and the insights into place-based funding that are emerging from the initiative.

They’re also joined by Sandi Phillips, Chair of the Elthorne Pride Big Local in Islington, North London. Sandi describes how Big Local funding has transformed her community, and the projects launched in response to the pandemic. You can watch Drawn Out, a short film made in collaboration with Elthorne Pride, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OEuq5szR7I&t=628s

Good Charity, Bad Charity is presented by Keith Davis, Camilla McGibbon and David Prest. It is produced by Dan Hardoon at Whistledown and supported by the Centre for Charity Effectiveness. 

The GCBC team are joined by Fozia Irfan OBE, who started her new job as  Director of Children and Young People at BBC Children in Need in October 2020. Fozia explains why working for the organisation is her “dream job”, what she hopes to achieve in her new post, and why grantmakers need to be wary of imposing a model which charities must conform to.

Good Charity, Bad Charity is presented by Keith Davis, Camilla McGibbon and David Prest. It is produced by Dan Hardoon at Whistledown and supported by the Centre for Charity Effectiveness and City Bridge Trust.

The GCBC team are joined by Catherine Roche, Chief Executive of Place2Be, the UK's leading school-based mental health charity. 

Catherine discusses the impact of the pandemic on children's mental health; the benefits of having HRH The Duchess of Cambridge as the charity's patron; and the charity's plan, in partnership with Young Voices, to smash the Guinness World Record for "largest simultaneous sing" by leading thousands of children in a rendition of Bill Withers's "Lovely Day" for Children's Mental Health Week in February 2021.

Good Charity, Bad Charity is presented by Keith Davis, Camilla McGibbon and David Prest. It is produced by Dan Hardoon at Whistledown and supported by the Centre for Charity Effectiveness. 

The GCBC team are joined by Dr Wanda Wyporska, Executive Director of The Equality Trust, which works to improve quality of life in the UK by reducing all kinds of inequality. Wanda discusses The Equality Trust's current campaigns and how the events of this summer have focused people's attention on structural inequality.

Good Charity, Bad Charity is presented by Keith Davis, Camilla McGibbon and David Prest. It is produced by Dan Hardoon at Whistledown and supported by the Centre for Charity Effectiveness. 

The GCBC team are joined by Fadi Itani, Chief Executive of the Muslim Charites Forum. Fadi discusses the response of Muslim communities to the pandemic; the importance of charity within Islam and the role of faith charities in the UK today.

Good Charity, Bad Charity is presented by Keith Davis, Camilla McGibbon and David Prest. It is produced by Dan Hardoon at Whistledown and supported by the Centre for Charity Effectiveness.