When your country’s fare is in the ‘world food’ aisle. Woolworth’s, Bondi beach, Sydney, Australia

Pelicans in a line. Erowal lake, near Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia.

Nonprofit Growth returns to The Inch Hotel, Scotland, from 16-19 November 2026. It is a masterclass for charity/nonprofit leaders who seek the clarity about their charity's purpose that brings certainty in direction and confidence in growth. www.revolutionise.com/seminars-cal...

OH MY GOD HOLD ON IT'S A SNEAK PEAK

a frightful hobgoblin stalking throughout Europe@supermathskid.bsky.social · 3w ago

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Recruitment services come to Great Fundraising. @revolutionise.bsky.social to acquire charity recruitment firm Bruce Tait Associates fundraising.co.uk/2026/09/21/r...

Revolutionise International to acquire charity recruitment firm Bruce Tait Associates

Charity recruitment firm Bruce Tait Associates joins Revolutionise International on 1 April 2027 when founder Bruce Tait retires.

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Three fundraising controversies that changed the sector’s approach to compliance. 🔥 * The Presidents Club - After the FT published an undercover investigation in 2018 alleging sexual harassment, inappropriate touching and degrading treatment of female hostesses at their annual event,

I'm looking forward to again co-presenting the Great Fundraising Masterclass in London this week. Curious? Determined to move your charity forward? Join me and other charity leaders for an intense, practical and supportive seminar.

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The Great Fundraising Masterclass returns to London this week. If you are ambitious to lead your charity to substantial growth, join us for the two-day seminar to learn the qualities of a Great Fundraising Organisation. www.revolutionise.com/seminars-cal...

Word of the day: hydronym. "A word that is the proper name of an area of water such as a river, lake, or sea" dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e... A hydronym is a geographical topynym or place name. Context? Trump's attempt to ignore hydronymy in wishing to change 'Lake Ontario'.

Alt: Wooden chair on a wooden jetty at sunset facing mountains, forest and a calm lake.

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Source of some of the scariest stories I’ve ever read! The two Celtic stone heads. I read it alone aged 10 or 11 in an empty house. Fifty years later it makes me shiver and avoid looking at our stairs and the bannisters. The illustrations - Dozemary Pool, the Drummer Boy of Potter Heigham…

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Do you have a copy of the Reader's Digest Folklore, Myths and Legends? I've written about it for the @theobserveruk.bsky.social this weekend. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

According to www.worldometers.info/world-popula... the population of the UK passed 70 million today.

The plot thickens… A day’s pickings from our allotment in our first year. Thoroughly satisfying.

The final stretch from Stoke by Nayland into Nayland, beating some of the Sunday morning heat. The return from Lavenham and Brent Eleigh.

Fruit of the gods! Blackberries are an annual joy, a pleasure on a run, walk or ride, and a delight to be growing them on our allotment.

Three men ride into Suffolk from Colchester on a Sunday morning. Through Manningtree, East Bergholt and a coffee in the gardens of the Munnings Museum in Dedham.

A scribe’s effort to correct an omission - The words that were accidentally left out are pulled along by one man who passes them to another who waits between the fourth and fifth lines to receive them - c. 1300, Walters Ms. W.102, f. 39v

A new addition to the history of fundraising, and one that I can imagine will appeal to a lot of my fundraising colleagues who went to some of these events, or even organised some of them! Find out more from UK Fundraising at fundraising.co.uk/2026/07/14/b...

We are delighted to announce the appointment of a new trustee to the JRCT board, Lucy Caldicott. Lucy is a charity leader who has spent her career helping organisations navigate strategy, change and inclusion. Click the link in our bio to find out more: www.jrct.org.uk/three-new-tr...

Cycling along the Montgomery canal on the Wales/England border, following the Severn to our right. Two days if riding the Shropshire and Hereford hills with friends.

Mersea Island’s oyster beds at dusk at midsummer. #EssexCoast

Cornflowers are flowering in our first year of stewarding an allotment.

Great Fundraising comes to Hope Street in Glasgow tomorrow. I’m co-presenting the masterclass to charity and fundraising leaders to share how and why some charities have managed to grow income and income at scale and pace. And how they can lead this in their charity.

Big thanks to @howardlake.bsky.social and the @ukfundraising.bsky.social team for putting a spotlight on the latest #GridCommunityFund from National Grid this time focused on green spaces, read more here - fundraising.co.uk/2026/06/12/f...

Funding opportunities and developments for charities in June 2026

This month we feature funding from the Lounge Foundation, Access – the Foundation for Social Investment, B&Q Foundation, The Bentley […]

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St Peter-on-the-Wall, Bradwell, Essex. Built c. AD 654 by St Cedd, this is one of England’s oldest churches. Raised within the Roman fort of Othona using reused Roman stone, it later became a barn before restoration in 1920. Still active today. #Essex #History #Aerial

Today marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of John Constable, one of Britain's most celebrated landscape painters. Constable spent much of his time at Flatford and across the Dedham Vale landscape. These much-loved surroundings inspired many of his most famous works.

A Manchester brewery has created the Trailblazer Fund to support small charities in the North West of England. fundraising.co.uk/2026/06/01/m...

Dining outside and under cover at Yalm in the Royal Arcade in Norwich, on a warm late May evening. With filter.

Ambition! A Taste for Change: How to Build a Food Bank Free Future by Heather Buckingham www.waterstones.com/book/a-taste...

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Buy A Taste for Change by Heather Buckingham from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Hottest day of the year so far, so we went on our longest ride of the year, so far, in Suffolk.