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My Blog ‘One Swallow Makes A Summer’ Has Moved! Please Follow At New Site http://www.alexswallow.com/blog/

    I just wanted to let all my readers know that this blog has now moved to a new home here.

This site will be up for a few more months at least, but I don’t intend to add new content on it, so if you would like to read my posts and find out what I’m up to, please sign up on the new site.

Thanks so much to everyone who has read this blog  and helped inspire me to try to take it to the next…

Amazing Interest In Young Trustees- Articles from #Trusteesweek 2014

            It’s been an incredible Trustees’ Week so far. One of the things I have been struck by is the interest that there has been in young people becoming Trustees.

I have seen so many tweets about young people as Trustees being discussed at conferences, seminars and meetings across the country.

There have been more articles written about young people as Trustees than I have ever seen…

Top five tips for #GivingTuesday in the UK

alexswallow:

I don’t feel I know enough about #GivingTuesday so it was good to read this on Zoe’s blog!

Originally posted on Zoe Amar:

This is a guest blog by Holly Mitchell, the #GivingTuesday Campaign Manager at CAF.  I’ll be chairing their webinar on how charities can use Facebook for #GivingTuesday on 19 November.

#GivingTuesday in the UK, now less than a month away, has been a long time in…

‘Growing and Maintaining a Personal Brand as a Charity Leader’- Charity Leaders’ Exchange Report

  #personalbrand

Do you want to learn more about how you can have a good personal brand as a charity leader?

If  so, go here to download our report (you will need to sign up as a member with the Charity Leaders’ Exchange).

This is a subject that is becoming increasingly important in our professional lives, but is seemingly little discussed in the charity sector. The report includes insights…

#socialceos- Growing Year On Year!

This week the new list of the 30 Top Social CEOs was revealed and I just wanted to make sure that my blog’s readers heard about it. I was very proud to be on the list last year, the first year of the competition.

If you read Zoe Amar’s blog (the organiser, along with Matt Collins) you can find a link to both her Guardian Voluntary post and the briefing produced to go along with the Awards.

It was…

Can You Help The Small Charities Coalition @sccoalition Find A New Home?

  The Small Charities Coalition is looking for a new home!

I know I am hugely biased as I worked there and loved it, but the work of the charity is so, so important- helping small charities across the country do an even better job. Small charities don’t always get lots of attention, donations or support, but the amazing work that they do is of no less value.

The team works incredibly hard and…

How To Become A Young Trustee

  The podcast above gives reasons for why young people should be Trustees and talks a little bit about my own Trustee Journey and why I set up Young Charity Trustees.

It includes 5 tips for young people who want to become trustees:

  1 Passion matters so much

2 Think outside the box when finding a role

3 Be as open-minded as you…

Going Back To Cambridge University To Give Careers Advice

    This week I am going back to Emmanuel College at Cambridge University, where I did my undergraduate degree in Social and Political Science.

I’m honoured to have been asked along to an event where a group of ex-students will be helping current students with their careers. I’m particularly hoping that a few of them are interested in the charity sector.

When I think back to my own time at…

‘Global Connections for Charities and Charity Supporters’- a new LinkedIn Group

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  I’ve set up a new group on LinkedIn called ‘Global Connections for Charities and Charity Supporters’.

It is a group for people who work for, volunteer for, or support charitable/non-profit organisations all over the world (including social enterprise and any other organisation with a social purpose). By connecting globally we can make a…

Today’s Youth- Architects Of Peace? Free Event 22nd October

  A guest message from a friend of mine, the inspirational John Loughton:

‘I wanted to let you know about an event I’m involved in on 22nd October (this coming Wednesday) – its on Youth and Peace.

Its following 18 yo friend of mine, and youth activist Tawfik being shot dead in Libya on 19th of last month. He believed in peace,…