Every story your charity tells shapes how people understand your work and the people behind it. Done well, storytelling can inspire action, build trust and strengthen your reputation. Done poorly, it can unintentionally reinforce stereotypes, undermine dignity, or damage relationships with the people you're trying to support.
Join the Tech For Good Alliance to discover how the Manchester Tech for Good Catalyst can support your organisation through tailored technology support—and sign up to get started on the day.
Following the launch of the Manchester Tech for Good Catalyst—a major three-year initiative supported by Manchester City Council, convened alongside Manchester Digital and techUK, and delivered by the Tech for Good Alliance—we are inviting Manchester-based charities, social enterprises, and not-for-profits to an exclusive information session.
This is a free, casual online get-together of people working in the charity sector who are interested in using Canva for visual design.
This get-together has no agenda and is governed entirely by what people want to know and/or share.
These include tips and questions about using Canva to create: graphics, animations, posts, videos etc. either for social media, online or print formats.
AI is no longer a future concept – it is transforming HR today. Employees use it to strengthen grievances or bolster Employment Tribunal claims. Trade unions rely on it to support members, target recruits and develop negotiation strategies. HR teams leverage it to streamline recruitment, transcribe meetings, or summarise complaints.
For HR, understanding AI’s impact—and its legal risks—is essential to safeguarding organisational integrity and team wellbeing.
Could influencers help your charity reach new audiences? Join Media Trust for an expert webinar on the basics of working with influencers.
Influencer marketing isn’t just for big brands and big budgets. The right creator can help your charity reach new audiences, tell powerful stories and build genuine connections with communities who might not otherwise encounter your work.
But how do you find influencers who genuinely align with your cause? What makes a good partnership? And how can charities make collaborations work when time and resources are limited?
Charities, by their nature, are there to help people who are navigating some of the hardest moments of their lives. Which means charity content needs to speak to an audience that’s upset, stressed, anxious, and sometimes in emotional turmoil. Trauma-informed content specialist Jo Levy believes this is about much more than using kind words. Her approach centres trauma-informed thinking and building it into everything you create from the start.
Third sector organisations are under real pressure to do more with less. AI promises innovation and efficiency, but its use consumes significant resources, comes with a real human cost and carries its own risks. Charities across our networks have identified this as an area where they need significant guidance and support, leading us to this timely and crucial collaboration with AI governance expert, Alba Sort.
Dr Gelareh Holbrook is a Business Intelligence Developer at the North Sea Transition Authority, where she uses data and technology to make complex information more accessible, meaningful and useful for decision-making.
Giving you a practical insight to help you plan and deliver digital fundraising successfully for your organisation.
With ever-increasing digital fundraising tools and platforms available, it can be overwhelming if you don’t know where to start, and a drain on limited time and resources if you don’t know what is going to work for your specific organisation and fundraising needs.
Even if your organisation doesn't have an official policy or subscription to an AI service, employees, volunteers and service users are using it: sometimes for good, sometimes for bad. That’s why it's more important than ever that every VSCE organisation has a robust ethical position on AI, not just a tick box policy.