Category: Guest blog

What good governance actually looks like when it matters

What good governance actually looks like when it matters A table covered with LEGO models built during a session

Most charities have a safeguarding policy. The harder part is what happens when a situation is moving quickly, people are under pressure and nobody is sure who needs to know, what should be recorded or when trustees should step in. In my guest blog for VONNE, the North East’s voluntary sector network, I look at […]

Why going independent was the best professional decision I ever made

Why going independent was the best professional decision I ever made

Going independent was the best professional decision I ever made. I learned a huge amount working inside organisations. At a certain point I realised the most valuable things I could offer were judgment, specialist knowledge and the freedom to be independent, and none of them was tied to one employer. I wrote about it for […]