Charity Digital Podcast
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Charity Digital Podcast
Looking to stay ahead of the digital curve? Kickstart your digital journey? Or just see how charities are making the most of technology? The Charity Digital podcast looks to inspire and educate, and connect charity pros to the latest trends in the (sometimes) scary world of digital. We'll be discuss...
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151: Turning awards into impact: How to apply and stand out
Charities of all sizes can reap the benefits of awards and grants. Massive budgets and huge teams are not necessary to get recognised – charities just...
150: Digital inclusion: What we know in 2025
We know that digital technology can be transformative in helping charities achieve their goals, whether it’s reaching new supporters or delivering mor...
149: The digital service delivery landscape in 2025
Charities are mission-led organisations, with service delivery at their core. They help to uphold society with vastly ranging activities such as perso...
148: AI for charities 101
Understanding artificial intelligence (AI) in 2025 feels like a mammoth task, with new tools emerging out of seemingly nowhere at a time where we’re t...
147: What does digital accessibility mean for charities?
When websites and other elements of the digital world are poorly designed, people with disabilities experience significant barriers, causing frustrati...
146: How to make your social media accessible and inclusive
Social media can feel dizzying. Platforms are fast-moving, ever-evolving, and always demanding, with new rules, new trends, new styles, and so on. It...
145: Digital inclusion: demystifying cyber security
Charities are tempting targets for cyber attacks, as custodians of sensitive data and funds needed to deliver critical services. But with concepts lik...
144: Building a digital nation
Good Things Foundation is the UK’s leading digital inclusion charity, powering the National Digital Inclusion Network, National Databank, and National...
143: Misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories
Misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories can be a problem for charities by negatively impacting upon service users, employees, and volu...
142: How technology is meeting charity challenges
The last few years have been challenging for charities. A global pandemic hastened the speed of digital transformation for the entire sector, widespre...
140: How your organisation should approach ESG
Climate change is a recurring news topic, perhaps the most pressing issue of our age, and it’s essential that charities take action. It’s time for cha...
139: Generative AI: Should you believe the hype?
In this podcast, taken from a recording from our 2023 Conference, we aim to demystify artificial intelligence (AI), explain some of the best ways that...
141: Locked & Secure: Mastering password management
As custodians of huge amounts of sensitive data and funds that are needed to deliver essential services, charities are under a great deal of pressure...
138: Keeping your online presence secure
With the combination of sensitive data records, funds, and limited cyber security resources to protect them, charities can look like prime targets for...
136: How to engage supporters in the world of remote working
As the world moves from in-person to remote, how can charities build lasting relationships with supporters? The picture might seem a bit bleak. Dat...
137: How to be digitally inclusive
The world has gone digital, and tin many ways, that’s great: processes are quicker and easier than ever before, information is transmitted seamlessly...
135: Building an income stream through lottery fundraising
During the cost-of-living crisis, many supporters have had to review how much they can continue to support their chosen charities, often causing a dro...
134: The bright future of fundraising
We might have to whisper...but 2024 looks…promising. Giving trends suggest an uplift. The economic outlook is encouraging, with lower inflation, wage...
133: The UK charity sector in 2023
It’s been a year of perpetual crises: the hangover of the health crisis, the emergence of geo-political crises, national and international economic cr...
132: The state of climate action in the UK charity sector, Part two
Our 2023 Climate Action campaign may be coming to an end in December, but that doesn’t mean we should stop acting on climate change. Indeed, climate c...
131: The state of climate action in the UK charity sector, Part one
This year, Charity Digital has been focused on climate action, aiming to raise awareness about climate change, show charities how digital and tech can...
130: Making digital transformation less daunting
More than four in five charities see digital as more of a priority as a result of the pandemic, according to the 2022 Charity Digital Skills Report. D...
129: Getting started with web accessibility
Web accessibility is increasingly a priority for the charity sector in efforts to reach more people and improve the lives of the people they serve.
128: How to improve your public speaking
Content people are a nervous bunch. We write in darkness, surrounded by books, shrouded in mystery. Many of us picked our roles precisely because we d...
127: Do charities care about climate change?
More than four in five charities are concerned about the impacts of climate change, according to Charity Digital’s recent survey, Climate Change in th...
126: Digital fundraising trends for 2024
2023 has proved another challenging year for the charity sector. The Cost-of-Living crisis has provoked a Cost-of-Giving crisis, meaning many charitie...
125: Tone of voice 101
How you speak to your audience matters. From building trust, to being clear, showing respect and sensitivity, and differentiating your charity from ot...
124: The future of content
Content is ever evolving, and it is now evolving at rapid speed. The content of today looks drastically different to the content of five years ago. An...
123: Crisis control: Burnout in the charity sector
Three years after the beginning of a global pandemic, and now months into a cost-of-living crisis that shows little signs of slowing, the 2020s have b...
122: Will artificial intelligence revolutionise charity work?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already long impacted our lives, but recent developments in the technology have created a frenzy around its possibili...
121: What’s it like to work in the charity sector?
There are lots of theories about life working in the charity sector. We’ve heard that it provides huge job satisfaction, that it is bureaucratic and f...
120: The rise of the content bots
Content bots are a form of generative AI that create content in seconds. ChatGPT, Jasper, and various other platforms generate content at overwhelming...
119: How to campaign for the climate
We discuss how charities can use campaigns to tackle climate change, consider the role of digital technology, and reflect on what we have learnt from...
118: Can technology save the planet?
Tech has always played a paradoxical role in the history of climate change: as both problem and solution. Tech is one of the main drivers of greenhous...
117: The latest in charity cyber security
This podcast is sponsored by the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit organisation that powers the .ORG domain.
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116: Everything we've learned about writing content
Reports of the death of written content have been greatly exaggerated. Blogs were the second most created form of content in 2022, according to resear...
115: How to talk about climate change
As a team, we are thinking a lot about climate action and how charities can get involved. Our 2023 Climate Action campaign aims to impart those findin...
114: Cost-of-living crisis: the main challenges of 2023
Charity professionals are all too aware of the cost-of-living crisis. It has posed a dual threat to non-profit organisations: funds decrease as servic...
113: Using data to develop user personas
User personas are an essential tool for charities. They are fictional representations or archetypes created to help you target and optimise various as...
112: Gaming for Good: an essential fundraising tool
In 2020 alone, gaming platform Twitch raised $83M for charitable causes. While it might have started as a niche avenue, with only a few charities play...