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Third Sector

Third Sector

A weekly podcast from Third Sector, the UK’s leading publication for everyone who needs to know what’s going on in the voluntary and not-for-profit sector.

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Episodes

332 episodes

  1. Making board meetings more effective 23:02
  2. Are charities ready for a Gen-Z workforce? 37:47
  3. What are the latest major giving trends? 24:08
  4. The Ernest Cook Trust’s journey towards place-focused funding 35:38
  5. Reach Volunteering’s reprieve, charities minister confirmed and the RNLI under fire 34:23
  6. Why small charities must go beyond ‘buzzword’ funding 31:52
  7. The benefits of an annual supporter appreciation day 28:30
  8. How important is the return on investment metric in fundraising? 30:42
  9. Professionalising the fundraising sector 32:35
  10. What can Black feminist leadership teach the charity sector? 32:00
  11. Grantmaking, working with government and encouraging volunteering 35:14
  12. The side effects of the Ice Bucket Challenge on the MND Association 33:10
  13. Commission critical, Burnham’s DCMS reshuffle and CAF Bank chaos 30:14
  14. Why every charity should be thinking about operational research 28:02
  15. How local infrastructure drives a resilient voluntary sector 27:48
  16. How Black Minds Matter UK is future-proofing its work 35:44
  17. Civil society post-Starmer, charity retail stocktake and the City & Guilds saga 27:56
  18. Third Sector conference snapshot 18:39
  19. How to solve friction between comms and fundraising teams 24:38
  20. Charities and Reddit 41:42
  21. A perspective on being a Jewish charity leader in 2026 28:58
  22. Reflections on CIoF’s final Fundraising Convention 19:53
  23. How to collect the data you need for impact reporting 24:32
  24. How Stonewall’s chief is navigating turbulence 19:42
  25. Lawfare, trustee whistleblowing and how Reform UK could affect the voluntary sector 27:07
  26. What the RHS Chelsea Flower Show’s charity gardens can teach us about philanthropy 21:40
  27. Why it’s important to ‘meet people where they are’ to encourage behaviour change 35:20
  28. How to undertake meaningful anti-racism work 36:39
  29. Feminist leadership, conflicts of interest and a legacy boom 28:24
  30. How the British Heart Foundation is tackling a disease of inequality 30:48
  31. Why Coram has absorbed four charities in a year 20:06
  32. Why fundraising should be everybody’s business 30:11
  33. Partnering with peers to get through tough times 32:07
  34. Small charity infrastructure, donation decline and an AI fundraising experiment 33:13
  35. Crisis chief on becoming a landlord and why charitable status may lack appeal 15:54
  36. How to approach safeguarding concerns 30:38
  37. How to build new income streams and secure board buy-in for left-field ideas 33:40
  38. How to scale your impact when local authority funding shrinks 32:56
  39. Remembering an HIV charity pioneer 28:04
  40. Schrödinger’s air ambulance, AI summaries and unions for charity workers 23:55
  41. A whistlestop AI tour for small charities 30:04
  42. How to raise money through livestreaming 28:33
  43. Sector salaries, City & Guilds pay-outs and CIC complaints 22:25
  44. What charities can learn from the Salt Path exposé 22:08
  45. Why two chief executives can be better than one 18:11
  46. How Islamic Relief UK is responding to Islamophobia 34:45
  47. Engaging civil servants and politicians to further your charitable mission 34:15
  48. What does 2026 have in store for charities? 40:45
  49. How the RNIB has navigated a restructure 18:30
  50. How did the sector fare in 2025? 31:13