May 2021
What 3 Words: ///straight.to.interview
Here at Bamboo, we love tech. We love its ability to transform, simplify and bring excitement to everyday tasks. We are on a constant digital [...]
April 2019
#4 Stats Corner – Global distribution of ‘Thought Leaders’:
As with any of our blogs at Bamboo it’s best not to use this as the basis of a PhD or consider it as peer [...]
February 2019
#3 Stats Corner – How recruitment-consultants describe charities…
In possibly one of the most niche blogs ever dreamed up I decided to take a look at the different adjectives used to describe charities [...]
January 2019
#2 Stats Corner: The vagaries of Individual Giving…
Individual Giving… I found myself wondering this morning how exactly a ‘individual giving’ job is defined. Anecdotally I was always under the assumption that it [...]
December 2018
Bamboo Riddler #2
With the prize for the first of our fundraising riddles now claimed, it's time to launch the next. Get riddling for your chance to win [...]
The fundraiser’s guide to the Christmas Party:
Many people in the corporate world get to sit in their fancy offices enjoying the spirit of Christmas giving through pay rises and hefty bonuses, [...]
Bamboo retrospective: Riding Blind for Guide Dogs
As preposterous as it sounds Graham and his friend Keith embarked upon a world record breaking trip from Land’s End to John O’Groats only 18 [...]
Bamboo Riddler #1
The Bamboo Riddler will be striking in the lead up to Christmas, laying down fundraising based cryptic prose for you to solve. Whoever solves the [...]
November 2018
Bamboo retrospective: 3 minutes of fame, Tim on Channel 4’s Battlefront
With youth unemployment still the same hot topic it was in 2012 the research team at Bamboo Fundraising trawled through the archives to find [...]
Tenuously Fundraising
I have been sat staring at this cursed blinking caret (I literally had no idea that's what the text cursor is called...... add that to [...]
7 minutes of fame: Graham on the Victoria Derbyshire Show…
Less then 12 hours after receiving the call from BBC top brass Graham found himself on the Victoria Derbyshire show talking about prejudice against blind [...]
#1 Stats Corner – Salary vs Job Title
I’ve often wondered whether there was an underlying logic behind job titles for fundraisers in the charity sector, one person’s head of can seemingly be [...]
Idealism of the Charity Fat Cats
A regular feature from our columnist Peter O’Pinion, taking his hand to dissecting charity bashing articles, both old and new, from the Daily Mail Online. [...]
October 2018
#4 Correlation Corner – Fundraising vs Hair-raising
With the year’s most pointless holiday (for the over 10’s demographic anyway) upon us once again I thought I’d dredge up some more tenuous associations [...]
#3 Correlation Corner – weight loss & the charity sector:
Once again, I’ve delved into Google’s archives to take an askance look at meaningless correlations in the charity sector. This time it’s searches for the [...]
6 Ways to create killer charity clickbait – you won’t believe number 5
In a world full of viral content and "dank memes" it can be hard to make sure that your charity's content stands out from the [...]
#2 Correlation Corner – I hate my job…
I hate my job…. In the second of our series of correlation corner I thought I’d take a look how the search term for ‘I [...]
August 2018
#1 Correlation Corner – GDPR and Ed Sheeran:
Whilst idly wondering to what degree people’s interest in GDPR had declined according to Google Trends since May 25th I found myself contemplating how [...]
May 2018
A Procrastination Guide for Fundraisers
Unless you're in the 0.001% of people who have unbounded enthusiasm 100% of the time, at some point you will find yourself in something of [...]
Guide Dogs for the Blind – Charity of the Moment
Here at Bamboo, we work with the charity sector because it’s the only sector we could be genuinely passionate about. With that comes a certain [...]
How To Pitch Fundraising Ideas at an Interview
Pitching fundraising ideas at an interview can be a daunting task. Graham Drew presents invaluable tips and advice to help you secure that dream job. [...]