johnbaguley's blog

Why oh why are we all so pleased that Alastair has decoupled Gift Aid from the rate of tax?

I read in Charity News Alert with dismay that “Crisis has dropped plans to build a £60m urban village for former homeless people in East London after lawyers advised that an appeal against an earli

This speaks of the power not just of a presidential candidate but a combination of that and the celebrity factor.

No jokes today - the Institute of Fundraising is just launching its Code of Practice for Consultants, which expertly sets out just when a consultant becomes a ‘professional fundraiser’ under the n

Amnesty's refusal to call for a boycott of the Genocide Olympics calls into question its ability to campaign effectively for human rights in Darfur.

My son Sam is currently travelling in Sri Lanka with his girlfriend, and suddenly that balmy island, where tea used to come from, appears a death trap as I scan the media anxious for news of anything

Futurologists tell us it is harder to predict the future than we think.

Puzzle number one: Our Gallic hero didn’t set the money on fire, so it went somewhere. If, as claimed, it contributed to stock market falls; why didn’t its re-appearance in someone else’s pocket set up an equal an opposite rise in stock market prices? www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7208439.stm

Skipping lightly through the fundraising press, interest group discussions and blogs looking for something of real use to me, I have recently been struck by our (fundraisers) often patronising attitude to celebrity involvement in charities.

About: Having seen so many comical attempts at fundraising over the years I intend to use this blog to question anything dubious that crosses my path – starting with 2.0. You can, of course, also find me on www.ifc.tc