The Only Way You Should Ever Begin Your Funding Bid

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What’s the most important part of your grant funding bid? What’s the one thing that will shape how your bid’s assessor rates the rest of it? It’s how you begin it. Because even in the world of bid writing first impressions matter most. A brilliant first impression casts the rest of your bid in a brilliant light. [...]

Six insider tips for creating digital tools that solve social problems

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Digital apps and services are slowly changing the way we tackle society’s problems. They’re usually created by social startups and small, motivated charities and organisations who want to find a better way to do what they do. But creating products that actually change people’s lives and become sustainable is tough work. Getting the right mix [...]

6 ways to use digital tech to unleash marginalised young people’s potential

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Imagine you’re a young person of the future. Imagine you’re a young person living right on the fringes of your society. Imagine you’re a young person who’s spent the last 12 years in traditional schooling, has had enough and can’t wait to leave, even though you’ve no qualifications and only a handful of life skills. [...]

Four things I learnt about user involvement at Innovation Labs

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Since I started out as a children’s advocate in 2002 I’ve been searching for effective ways of involving children & young people in service development. Not ways where young people are just consulted with, nor where they lead the process and make the decisions, but where they are actively involved as equals, developing ideas and [...]

22 Ways to Create Compelling Content (Infographic)

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The A Team Guide to Advocacy

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Do you have a problem that ‘no one else can help’ with?

Maybe you’ve never noticed it before but the A Team bear a surprising resemblance to a team of advocates. There’s a good reason for this.

6 hot tips to ease the pain of bid writing

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Bid writing doesn’t have to be so painful. There’s a pretty simple process you can go through that will make writing the bid easier, make you feel like you know what you’re doing, and save you time.
Here’s how.

Top Ten Reasons for Advocates to be Social Media Literate

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10. You’re at a party and want to demonstrate that the advocacy profession is fully part of the 21st century and isn’t afraid to merge work/life boundaries. 9. You’re interested in understanding the cultural context of the lives of your clients who interact in the Web 2.0 world, especially since social media has become the [...]