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The fundraiser’s guide to the Christmas Party
In the corporate world, people get to sit in their fancy offices enjoying the spirit of Christmas giving through pay rises and hefty bonuses.
This is in stark contrast to fundraising where, in many charities, Christmas is one of the busiest times of the year.
Read on to find out why the fundraising party trumps all.
Bamboo retrospective: Riding Blind for Guide Dogs
Bamboo Director, Graham and his friend Keith embarked on a world record-breaking trip from Land’s End to John O’Groats 18 short months ago to raise money for The Guide Dogs Association.
Find out how they got on in our latest blog post.
Bamboo Riddler #1
We’ll be posing a series of fundraising Bamboo Riddlers in the lead-up to Christmas. Whoever solves the riddle first will receive a £30 Amazon voucher.
Bamboo retrospective: Tim on Channel 4’s Battlefront
With youth unemployment the same hot topic it was in 2012, we trawled through the archives to find Tim’s appearance on the Emmy Award-winning show ‘Battlefront’.
Tenuously Fundraising
Read on for the most tenuously fundraising-related blog ever written.
Seven minutes of fame: Graham on the Victoria Derbyshire Show
See Bamboo Director Graham Drew’s admirable performance under pressure on the Victoria Derbyshire show, talking about prejudice against blind people.
#1 Stats: Salary vs Job Title
We’ve often wondered if there’s an underlying logic behind job titles for fundraisers in the charity sector.
In this post we look at the most common job titles, the average salaries, and the ‘ranking’ of job titles by salary.
Idealism of the Charity Fat Cats
A regular feature from our columnist Peter O’Pinion, taking his hand to dissecting charity bashing articles, both old and new, from the Daily Mail Online.
#4 Correlation: Fundraising vs hair-raising
With the year’s most pointless holiday upon us once again, we’re dredging up some more tenuous associations from Google Trends that look at meaningless correlations in the fundraising sector.
Read on for the fourth installment of Correlation Corner.
#3 Correlation: weight loss & the charity sector
Once again, we’ve delved into Google’s archives to take a look at meaningless correlations between the charity sector and others.
This time we’ve searched for the term ‘charity’ vs ‘weight loss’.
6 Ways to create killer charity clickbait - you won't believe number 5
In a world full of viral content and "dank memes", it can be hard to make your content stand out from the white noise.
In this post, we explore six ways in which you can create killer clickbait, all the time, every time.
#2 Correlation: I hate my job
In the second of our series of Calculus Corner, we’re taking a look at how the search term for ‘I hate my job’ changes over the course of a given year and across different countries.
#1 Correlation: GDPR and Ed Sheeran
Whilst idly wondering to what degree people’s interest in GDPR had declined according to Google Trends since May 25th, I found myself contemplating how interest in this correlated to other things, like Ed Sheeran.
Read on to hear my thoughts
Six ways to relax at work
We asked the Bamboo crew for their top work relaxation tips.
Here are six of the best.
Guide Dogs for the Blind – Charity of the Moment
Here at Bamboo, we work with the charity sector because it’s the only sector we are genuinely passionate about.
With that comes a certain philanthropic joie de vivre, so every so often we choose a new charity and throw our fundraising might behind it.
How to pitch fundraising ideas at an interview
Pitching fundraising ideas at an interview can be a daunting task.
Graham Drew presents invaluable tips and advice to help you secure that dream job.