AI won’t take your job, but someone using it will

Anyone who’s a regular on LinkedIn must have seen this claim. If ever there was a sentence to make business owners sit up and take notice, there it is.

This isn’t referring to a far-off future where robots in suits turn up to your team meeting and make the tea. It’s happening now. The tools already exist, and your competitors are either using them or seriously thinking about doing so.

£640,000 was lost by charities who were unsuccessful/declined in Henry Smith's latest funding round. More than 49,000 hours were wasted, and that related to just one funder. If we consider how many funders there are out there (though they are in decline), it's actually quite scary to calculate the number of hours and the likely millions of pounds that are lost across the entire sector each year in the pursuit of income from grants.

Return on investment is an important thing for any organisation, but particularly so for a charity.

Most people probably don’t think about the cost of fundraising (a heads up: it’s not just a case of having a volunteer rattling a bucket in a town centre ‘for free’).

In today's fast-paced and digitally connected world, loneliness and social isolation have emerged as significant concerns affecting individuals of all ages. Studies have consistently shown that these experiences can have a profound impact on mental health and overall well-being.