CharityComms is the membership network for communications professionals working in UK charities. Every so often I write a blog for their Knowledge Hub on wordy type topics. Here's a selection. Keeping wellbeing in mind as the world of work continues to change [...]
Want to improve your charity’s storytelling? I have an idea… Well, I have a few ideas, so I popped them into this little book: Storytelling for Impact Aiming to demystify storytelling, this ‘Speed Read’, published by the Directory of Social [...]
“In 2011, I stepped on a landmine, my legs were blown off, a helicopter came and picked me up. I only just survived." This is photographer Giles Duley during an interview with Rach Allen. He’s demonstrating an important distinction in [...]
You’ve had a great idea for a new event, campaign or communication. It’s going well until too many people get involved. Before you know it, your expert content has been watered down or, worse still, overloaded with inconsistent messages. Here are [...]
Good copywriters spend a lot of time talking. Sharing thoughts and ideas, making bad grammar jokes and, most importantly, asking their clients lots of challenging questions. So if you brief a writer and are met with silence, beware. It’s their [...]
How does a blind person play football? At what time of day will walking burn off the most calories? How common is female circumcision in the UK? These are just some of the questions I can answer as a result [...]
