So, over the past year and a bit we’ve signed up for twitter completely revamped how we use facebook, and started this blog. In terms of keeping in contact with you about what we do and why we do it we think that we’re doing okay, but we’re always trying to improve.  Not everyone uses twitter, or facebook, and not everyone reads the blog.  Google+ hasn’t really released organisational pages… read more »

Well hello, good afternoon, happy Valentine’s day! As you’ll remember, we ended up on the shortlist for Most Creative Charity at the JustGiving Awards 2011. So, a very early Thursday morning start last week saw us on a flight to London.  For a small Scottish charity, heading down to London isn’t something we can do too often, it’s just too expensive.  (Please take note, fundraising training providers of the UK! … read more »

So, on Monday we told you about how we’d been shortlisted for JustGiving’s “Most Creative Charity” Award 2011… …well… …we’ve been chosen as finalists! *dances around office in over-caffeinated fashion* Yeay! So thank you to everyone who kept their fingers crossed for us…(and please do keep them crossed if at all possible) and thank you to the judges for their decision!  Well done to all the other shortlisted charities and… read more »

If you follow us on twitter (@mndscotland) or like us on facebook you may have already seen this but we’re so damn proud that we thought it was worth repeating here… We’ve been shortlisted for a JustGiving award!   Huzzah! Image from http://www.justgivingawards.com/index.php   The JustGiving awards are a way for JustGiving to “celebrate the amazing achievements of the JustGiving community over the past year. They’re our way of recognising the… 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 »

In which we talk about the C word.

Ethics in fundraising…

…and update on monday’s post…

In which we discuss the importance of emotional connections…