Showing posts with label charities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charities. Show all posts
Friday, 6 January 2017

How Chuck Gave It All Away

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We spoke yesterday about Ken Townsley, businessman and philanthropist who has dropped a fair chunk of his fortune on deserving causes in his...
Thursday, 5 January 2017

How Ken Gave Back To His Home Town

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We're all nervously looking up the line, worrying about the news that 2017 will deliver. Here at The Pier, we choose to view things posi...
Tuesday, 29 November 2016

Time To Give Back On #GivingTuesday

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We've finally got through Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Both of these 'holidays' are unadulterated celebrations of greed, as we...
Wednesday, 2 November 2016

The Big Knitathon

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With Halloween behind us, I think we can really feel the weather deepening into autumn. There's a properly frosty chill in the air. All ...
Friday, 28 October 2016

This Halloween, Do More With Your Pumpkins!

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I'm going a little off-piste today, but there's an environmental message to deliver, so I hope you can bear with me just this once. ...
Thursday, 27 October 2016

Charity Begins At Home.

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We Brits like to believe that we're charitable souls. Look at the sponsored events we give to so generously, or the way we're happy ...
Thursday, 20 October 2016

The Post-Charity Landscape

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After a, let's say challenging, year for the Third Sector, there are some radical rethinks going on about the whole nature of charities...
Tuesday, 11 October 2016

The Future Of Charities in Brexitland

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We looked earlier in the year about the likely impact of Brexit on some of The View's key areas of interest . The general mood was bleak...
Thursday, 22 September 2016

How Will You Spend Your #firstfiver?

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Over the last couple of weeks, a strange new item has been appearing in the wallets and purses of the nation. The first major innovation to ...
Friday, 16 September 2016

Give As You Live!

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We talk a lot about 'conscious consumerism'–the idea that we can be better citizens to the planet simply by shopping in a more thoug...
Tuesday, 9 August 2016

A Toxic Legacy Of The 2012 Olympics For Charities.

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An often-used term in relation to the Olympics is 'legacy'. That is, after the huge investment in new buildings, stadia and parks t...
Tuesday, 19 July 2016

Bike-Back

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Here at The Pier we're big fans of Bite-Back , the marine conservation charity that's serious about sharks. They've been instru...
Tuesday, 12 July 2016

Charities Need To Go Mobile

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Charities are seeing massive drops in their donated revenue over the past few years. There are all sorts of factors in play that could expla...
Monday, 11 July 2016

Forget The Euros: Here's The Homeless World Cup!

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For the next five days, Princes Square in Glasgow is home to a remarkable and inspiring event. This week, the Homeless World Cup has come t...
Friday, 8 July 2016

Spread The Light With Harry Potter

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There's been a lot of grim news around lately, so it's time to spread a little light. If you're a Harry Potter fan (I hear ther...
Wednesday, 6 July 2016

Broken Rainbow

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It looks like 2016 has its Kid's Company moment. LGBT domestic abuse charity Broken Rainbow went into administration on June 3rd. Runni...
Wednesday, 29 June 2016

Brexit And Charities

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In the second of this week's post-Brexit pieces, we look at how UK charities are faced with an even more uncertain future. The last cou...
Wednesday, 15 June 2016

It's National Bike Week!

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As the producer of a cycling documentary, and one of the millions who choose to use pedal power for their local journeys, I'm very happy...
Thursday, 9 June 2016

Volunteer's Week

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You hear a lot in the press and from that Facebook mate of yours (you know the one) about the way charities are stuffed full of overpaid, u...
Wednesday, 1 June 2016

Tap-To-Donate: How Technology Could Revolutionise Charity Fundraising.

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Moving on from yesterday's post a little , let's consider the way that we are moving slowly but steadily towards a cashless society...