Celebrating the springboard donation to Changing Faces

Twenty-five years ago this week, on Friday 25th October 1991, I received the very first donation to Changing Faces – and it was a full nine months before the charity was officially ‘launched’ and was therefore of even more significance. So I was delighted last week to be invited to have coffee with Greville and LisaContinue reading “Celebrating the springboard donation to Changing Faces”

Fundraising challenges: what they should be (painfully)

I fear the next target of the media’s current interest in charity fundraising may be ‘challenge events’ – you know what I mean: ‘get sponsored to join XYZ charity to run / cycle / walk / drive / negotiate the really tricky route from A to B’. Cynics can easily find fault: ‘nothing more thanContinue reading “Fundraising challenges: what they should be (painfully)”