Happy New Year everyone!  Hope you had a wonderful festive season, and are easing into this very shiny new year that’s appeared.   Thank you also to all those who entered our Christmas Cracker Draw!  Pictures of us drawing the winners will be up on Facebook very soon… We’ve noticed that at this time of year we receive a flurry of signups for events like the Edinburgh Marathon / Half Marathon… read more »

Being the happy little Christmas elves that we are, we’ve saved up all our annual leave and are now away until the beginning of January. In the meantime, how about entering our Christmas Cracker Draw? For every multiple of £2 that you donate, we’ll give you one entry into the draw.  [We wanted to do a pay-what-you-want model, like that which a few bands are using…. but unfortunately the legalities… read more »

Well, today I was supposed to be telling you about the Christmas Curry & Race Night we had last week. However. Picture from http://www.dusa.co.uk   Yeah… Due to The Big Freeze of 2010 (End of Year edition) we had to postpone.  Which wasn’t at all what we wanted to do, but when it became evident that the temperature wasn’t going to get above, oh, -10C, and that even if people… read more »

Last week I said that I’d tell you about the piece of film that we had made for the Cornflower Ball, and as I’ve said before I do try to be a woman of my word…. so here we go. For those of you that weren’t at the Cornflower Ball here’s the background – before dinner we have a welcome, and after dinner we usually have a short speech which… read more »

What with the Cornflower Ball and all its attendant busyness, I didn’t get a chance to talk about the Institute of Fundraising Scotland conference, or Be Good Be Social. Next week (probably) I’m going to talk about the film that we used at the Ball, about how it came to be and how we’re going to use it in the future. This week though, I want to take a little… read more »

It’s the first challenge of our fundraising “ask” that before we can say anything about money, we have to explain exactly (or vaguely) what Motor Neurone Disease is.  Professor Stephen Hawking has, of course, raised the public profile of MND – but as you’re probably aware, he is a somewhat exceptional case.  Anyone fundraising for a rare condition or difficult cause will tell you a similar tale – that you… read more »

Ethics in fundraising…

…and update on monday’s post…

In which we discuss the importance of emotional connections…

In which we discuss why it’s important to say thank you…