This week I had the opportunity to attend the Impact Startupfest 2018 in The Hague. A bringing together of innovators, investors and “impactmakers” under t...

One of the common criticisms levelled against “charity”, all lumped together like an amorphous mass, is that it “wastes: donations". This might be anything ...

On the 28th March Tesco was ordered to pay £129 million / $160 million fine for “market abuse” as a result of overstating its profits in 2014. The final noti...

Imagine a company who is giving away a new product free of charge at a train station or in the street. No one asked you what you wanted, in fact you don’t ev...

While I am the first to have a good old dig at inefficiencies and overspending within the aid sector, I find “aid actor bashing” (and I use the words “aid ac...

When you choose to buy anything you might be the kind of person that does a little research. If you’re like us you might even do up a little spreadsheet. Fir...

As individual donors we expect – nay, even demand – ‘impact’. Yet often we aren’t informed of what it takes to get to the point of having impact and then dem...