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4 days ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Kellie E. Smith |Mary Wessel
Showing kindness in the workplace is important. And even more so when colleagues and peers are facing challenges. The charity sector is experiencing funding difficulties and there’s been an increase in organisational restructures, redundancies, and closures.
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4 days ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Kellie E. Smith |Mary Wessel
We explore the four key steps to volunteer recruitment and retention to help your impact go furtherVolunteers are indispensable to many charities, whether they are helping to deliver services, assisting with fundraising, or working behind the scenes to keep the charity’s wheels turning. Volunteers contribute their enthusiasm, care, and unique abilities, collectively contributing the equivalent of £18 billion per year to a wide range of charitable causes by donating their time.
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5 days ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Mary Wessel |Laura Stanley
The need for more time in the charity sector is a constant cause for concern, particularly for charity finance teams. As a result of high-pressure funding environments and charities’ determination to do the best possible work for their service users, lack of time has undoubtedly been a key challenge for charity financial teams, especially given the gravity of their work.
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5 days ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Mary Wessel |Laura Stanley
Digital exclusion is a significant issue, and one that 82% of charities are concerned about. There are many reasons that someone could be digitally excluded. That might be having limited access to internet and devices, a lack of digital skills, or a website not being fully accessible for disabled people. According to the , more than 19 million people across the UK face some form of digital exclusion.
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1 week ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Mary Wessel |Kellie E. Smith
The communities that many charities serve are richly diverse, and their volunteers should be no different. That’s the approach of organisations like Bradford 2025 and London Youth Games, who have committed to volunteer diversity and inclusion in 2025 to enrich their cultural events, foster more engaged volunteer communities, and create meaningful opportunities for personal and professional growth among their diverse volunteers.
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1 week ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Mary Wessel |Kellie E. Smith
Download the Small and Large Charity versions of the Code of Practice 2025 Digital has accelerated faster than ever in the years since the pandemic. We’ve seen a shift towards the cloud, an embrace of blockchain and cryptocurrency, the rise and fall of NFTs, new challenges in cyber security, and much more. Social media platforms have grown hostile and misinformation runs wild. And the rapid growth of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has changed just about everything.
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1 week ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Mary Wessel |Kellie E. Smith |Joe Lepper |Laura Stanley
Charities are keen to innovate, finding new ways to achieve their missions using the available resources. Introducing new methods, ideas, and technologies, it’s possible to deliver more effective services, to do more with less, and achieve so much more than was previously considered possible. Digital innovation can be important for charities to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today’s world. But it also has a downside: it can risk leaving people behind.
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1 week ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Joe Lepper |Mary Wessel |Kellie E. Smith |Laura Stanley
The UK’s network of local councils is being transformed beyond recognition through reform being driven through by central government. Ministers in the Labour administration, which was elected in 2024, wants local government to move away from its familiar two-tier council set up. This traditionally sees county councils oversee county wide services such as social care, meanwhile district councils run more localised provision, such as refuse collection and leisure facilities.
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2 weeks ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Laura Stanley |Mary Wessel |Kellie E. Smith |Ioan Marc Jones
We explore how data can help charities create more effective marketing and fundraising strategies that reach more people and drive more impactThere are non-negotiables in charity marketing that cannot be ignored: personalisation builds greater loyalty from supporters; digital channels reach wider audiences; good storytelling drives engagement. What underpins the success of these elements is data.
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2 weeks ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Ioan Marc Jones |Laura Stanley |Mary Wessel
Video: How funding and fundraising has changed19 May 2025by Ioan Marc JonesIn this video, we explain the recent history of funding and fundraising
