In Kevin Curley’s recent Third Sector commentary about what the Big Lottery Fund might be up to he referred to my work shadowing leaders of small charities, something he kindly kicked off for me back in 2008.
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Twitter can give you a hotline to almost anyone
Last year, when a national newspaper observed critically that I’d managed “over 3,500 tweets” and run up around £9,000 in travel expenses, it was my Twitter followers who immediately sprang to my
defence. “Thank goodness a CEO of a fund takes the trouble to engage with us directly and will bother to come and see what we are up to for himself,” was their response, made even before I’d had the chance to consider my own.
Come on, you lot – vote for your fave lottery project
My staff are a pretty positive bunch, really. But, if there’s one thing that makes their blood boil, it’s the lack of national media coverage for remarkable work that organisations do with the cash we give them.
The power of broadcast partnerships
The Big Lottery Fund is gearing up for our BBC One debut Village SOS, a prime-time series that follows the journey of six BIG-funded rural community enterprises.
Through
Village SOS we gave people in rural areas, with great ideas for
community-reviving businesses, the financial backing they needed to make
their dreams a reality. The winners of a very competitive process
didn’t just get cash but a TV crew to film the ups and downs of what
happened next.
Charities need to realise that the future doesn’t look like the past
Lots
of people tell me that when times are tough, the Big Lottery Fund should focus on the tried and
tested. They say that with other
funds drying up, the lottery needs to protect the best of what is out there.
