Over Christmas we spent 3 days at Halls Gap in the Geriward mountains (Grampians) in Western Victoria, about 3 hours drive from Melbourne. This is an ancient mountain range where the Aboriginal peoples have lived for about 1,600 generations, yes 40-50,000 years! (more…)
sales culture
Some sales skills are transportable…
On Friday night we had the honour and pleasure of being hosted by Air Vice-Marshal Ross Paterson, Air Officer Scotland, at 603 Royal Auxiliary Air Force Squadron Headquarters in Edinburgh, then at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, and again afterwards at 603 Squadron. I was invited in my capacity of Non-Executive Director of Heroes Drinks Company and I was accompanied by my partner Susan Mallinder.
Principles of effective fundraising
First things first. Your charity or non-profit organisation (‘charities’) is a not for profit business, but unless you run it like a business you won’t survive. This means having effective processes and systems, bookkeeping and HR functions, amongst others. But the focus of this paper is on effective fundraising (more…)