I was turned down for funding by a trust the other day….. As a regular trust fundraiser this is nothing very remarkable, it happens all too often, with even the best written applications. However, why this one sticks in my mind is because of the nature of the ‘no’. Rather…
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Does your church, charity or group have one of those ‘impossible’ dreams? Would you love to have a new building, develop a new service, ministry or service, or employ a member a new of staff? So many of these dreams never seem come to fruition; but why? Sometimes it is…
If you are involved in a small charity, it can be all too easy to feel no-one is listening or interested. After all, big charities seem to get all the attention (and cash!) and it can be a struggle to get your message, or even your existence noticed. However, the…
We all like stories. We read them to our children, watch them on TV soaps and are endlessly fascinated by other people’s, whether we read them in magazines or heard them discussed down our street. We all have our own story and so do the organisations we work for. These are…
I hope you have big dreams? Vision, targets, aims, hopes – call them what you will, I suspect we all have a dream or two inside us. The trouble is, most stay as dreams because we cannot imagine how we could ever go about turning the into reality. Well if the longest journey…