134/ SCOTTISH FUNDRAISING CONFERENCE - FAY MCLEOD

Our final episode from Scotland, featuring Fay McLeod from Silver City Surfers. We're recapping her session 'A neurodivergent guide to smashing stereotypes and building inclusion'. James and Fay talk about her lived experience and honest reflections. We've got myth-busting, accommodating reasonable adjustments and anxiety in the build-up to Glasgow. There's coffee dates, fonts for dyslexics and meeting cancellations, plus winning awards and, saving the best for last, lego speed dating.  

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133/ SCOTTISH FUNDRAISING CONFERENCE

We're live from the Scottish Fundraising Conference 2025. James and Kenneth sit down to recount their experience from Glasgow with behind the scenes content from keynote speakers, sponsors, presenters, organisers, award winners and Kenneth's former colleagues - we’ve even got the former secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain for you coming up.

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132/ DOING YOUR BEST WORK WITH ELEANOR GIBSON

Former fundraiser and current coach, Eleanor Gibson joins us to talk about helping charities make a bigger impact. Starting out without replying to emails at Cancer Research before embracing Lean and Agile ways of working. She went on to found Tilt, supporting over 400 organisations, and start the Charity Change Collective, speeding up positive change in the sector. 

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131/ SCOTTISH FUNDRAISING CONFERENCE - ESTHER KWAKU

There’s human-centred AI, laying awake at night with excitement, removing the blockers to progress and the importance of experience over qualifications. Finally we look ahead to Scotland, getting people together in a room and a spoiler for what to expect from the stage from your second Keynote Speaker.  

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126/ HOW TO SIDE-HUSTLE WITH ROB GREEN

Our guest describes the subtle difference between a digital approach to fundraising rather than a fundraising approach to digital, plus a sensible approach to a side hustle bearing in mind three kids, a mortgage and thirteen needy chickens.

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