You’ve seen the news. The cost of living is soaring, and money is tight for everyone, including charities.

The current cost of living crisis has everybody feeling the pinch and tightening the purse strings. It’s affecting charities in two ways.

It’s no secret that charities are struggling to recruit and retain fundraisers.

How diverse is your charity’s board?

World Sight Day (WSD) is an International Day of Awareness held every October, to focus attention on the issue of eye health.

This year it falls on October 13th.

In recognition, we’re sharing our Co-Founder, Graham’s personal experience of living with Retinitis pigmentosa (RP).

Can you believe that Christmas is just three short months away? Granted it’s not quite time to get out the fairy lights and crack open the Quality Street, but for those of you in the third sector, it’s time to get your Christmas fundraising campaigns in order.

Mid-value giving is a largely underdeveloped area of fundraising. This is because charities tend to focus on acquiring donors and locking in major donors.As a result, mid-level donors get left on the back burner, which is a shame, as they’re a vital part of the fundraising mix.In this blog post we're going to look at why mid-level donors are important and what you can do to make them feel loved.

If you work in the third sector, you’ve probably heard of the Fundraising Regulator. But what is it? How does it work? And should your charity register with them?

Read on to find out.

Thinking of investing in a database?

This post is for you.

We dive into the reasons why databases are important for small charities and look at the pros and cons of some of the top CRM systems on the market.

Are you getting a poor response to your job ads, or worse, no response at all?

A little blue-sky thinking might be just what you need to boost engagement.

Here are five creative recruitment campaigns to inspire you.

UK inflation hit a 40-year high in July. To combat this, the Bank of England has raised interest rates to a level not seen in 27 years and warned that the UK faces a recession that will last until the end of 2023.

Fundraising, like most things, has undergone a huge transformation in the past 50 years, thanks to advances in technology and the ever-expanding digital world.

In tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II, we’re reflecting on the incredible work she did for charitable causes during her 70 years on the throne.

It’s always heart-warming to see a community come together to support a good cause. And that’s exactly what happened in this week’s feel-good Friday post.

Here at Bamboo HQ, we believe that fundraisers are worth their weight in Francium (the most valuable element- see ya’ later gold) and should be remunerated as richly as reasonably possible.

If you’ve been looking at getting a job in the third sector, chances are you’ll have come across the term “social enterprise.” But what is it? And what makes a social enterprise different from a charity?

Read on to find out.

Children have the ability to bring about positive change in the world and should be inspired, encouraged, and supported in the early stages of life to help them develop into the strong, intelligent, successful individuals they have the potential to be.

What’s in a job title really? It’s just words, isn’t it? Words that describe what you do for a living. It doesn’t really matter what the title is, right?

If that’s the case, why do so many people put so much stock in them?

In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Two years on, life is returning to some semblance of normal, but the way we work has changed forever.

In a previous blog, we talked about how unconscious bias can negatively affect the recruitment process. Well, Swedish recruitment agency TNG may have come up with a solution.

Meet Tengai, the AI robot.