A weekly podcast from Third Sector, the UK’s leading publication for everyone who needs to know what’s going on in the voluntary and not-for-profit sector. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nov 13, 2026 · 27:27
In February the government announced it would provide a £10m financial package to help the families of children and young people with cancer cover travel costs to and from…
Nov 6, 2026 · 30:26
Host Emily Burt is joined by Third Sector colleagues Andy Ricketts and Emily Harle to talk about three significant sector stories from the past month. The team speculate about…
Oct 30, 2026 · 23:02
Third Sector’s Andy Ricketts and Dami Adewale are joined by Jason Parker, chair of the Stroke Association. Jason talks about streamlining the work done by the board he leads and…
Oct 23, 2026 · 37:47
Third Sector editor Emily Burt and senior reporter Emily Harle are joined by Kiran Kaur, the co-founder and chief executive of the social enterprise GirlDreamer. Kiran talks…
Oct 16, 2026 · 24:08
Emily Burt is joined by Natalie Pinon, interim chief executive of NPT UK. Natalie describes the increasing willingness among high net worth individuals to talk about charitable…
Oct 9, 2026 · 35:38
Editor Emily Burt is joined by Ed Ikin, chief executive of the Ernest Cook Trust, an educational charity and funder that cares for 9,000 hectares of land across six UK counties…
Oct 2, 2026 · 34:23
Host Emily Burt is joined by Third Sector colleagues Andy Ricketts and Emily Harle to talk about three significant sector stories from the past month. Two months after the new…
Sep 25, 2026 · 31:52
Editor Emily Burt is joined by Asma Shah, chief executive of You Make It, a charity that exists to empower and advance the professional and personal development of young Black…
Sep 18, 2026 · 28:30
Third Sector editor Emily Burt and deputy editor Andy Ricketts hear from Adam Baker, director of communications and supporter engagement at Wiltshire and Bath Air Ambulance. Adam…
Sep 11, 2026 · 30:42
Emily Burt and Andy Ricketts hear from the fundraising specialist Caroline Richardson and Paul Courtney, director of fundraising at Children’s Hospice South West. Caroline and…
Sep 4, 2026 · 32:35
Senior reporter Emily Harle is joined by Katie Docherty, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising. She talks about the significant developments in fundraising…
Aug 21, 2026 · 32:00
Third Sector editor Emily Burt and senior multimedia reporter Lucinda Rouse are joined by Jules Lynch, founder and chief executive of the Global Girl project. Jules discusses how…
Aug 14, 2026 · 35:14
Matt Hyde, chief executive of the Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales, talks to Third Sector deputy editor Andy Ricketts about volunteering, working with government and…
Aug 7, 2026 · 33:10
Third Sector editor Emily Burt and senior multimedia reporter Lucinda Rouse are joined by Tanya Curry, chief executive of the MND Association. Tanya recalls how the MND…
Jul 31, 2026 · 30:14
Host Emily Burt is joined by Third Sector colleagues Andy Ricketts and Emily Harle to talk about three significant sector stories from the past month. Andy recounts an…
Jul 24, 2026 · 28:02
Editor Emily Burt and deputy editor Andy Ricketts are joined by Dr Colette Fletcher, executive director of the Operational Research Society, and Rebecca Goldring, performance and…
Jul 17, 2026 · 27:48
Editor Emily Burt and senior reporter Emily Harle are joined by Maddy Desforges, chief executive of the local infrastructure membership body Navca. They discuss the challenges…
Jul 10, 2026 · 35:44
Editor Emily Burt and reporter Dami Adewale are joined by Danielle Bridge, chief executive of Black Minds Matter UK. They discuss BMMUK’s ‘back-to-front’ journey, from a…
Jul 3, 2026 · 27:56
Lucinda Rouse is joined by Emily Burt, Dami Adewale and Andy Ricketts to talk about three significant sector stories from the past month. Emily considers the likely consequences…
Jul 1, 2026 · 18:39
Lucinda Rouse hears from some of the speakers at Third Sector’s annual conference, which was held at the Royal Society of Medicine’s 1 Wimpole Street in London on 23 and 24 June.…
Jun 26, 2026 · 24:38
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Max Newton (he/him), director of fundraising, marketing and communications at Cerebra, and the digital communications and fundraising…
Jun 19, 2026 · 41:42
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by the communications and community engagement specialist Jayne Cravens to discuss the opportunities for charities on the social media…
Jun 12, 2026 · 28:58
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Burt are joined by Jo Grose, chief executive of the United Synagogue, to discuss how her charity’s operations have been affected by recent attacks on the…
Jun 10, 2026 · 19:53
Lucinda Rouse is joined by Andy Ricketts and Emily Harle to discuss their highlights from the final edition of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising’s Fundraising Convention,…
Jun 5, 2026 · 24:32
Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Sarah Derbyshire, chief executive of the orchestral music charity Orchestras Live, to discuss the organisation’s path to data…
Jun 3, 2026 · 19:42
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle discuss snippets from a recent interview Emily conducted with Simon Blake, chief executive of Stonewall. Simon explains how the LGBT rights charity…
May 29, 2026 · 27:07
Lucinda Rouse is joined by Third Sector colleagues Emily Harle, Dami Adewale and Andy Ricketts to talk about three significant sector stories from the past month. Emily describes…
May 22, 2026 · 21:40
Lucinda Rouse visits the RHS Chelsea Flower Show as grantmaker Project Giving Back marks its fifth and final year of supporting “gardens for good causes” at the event. She hears…
May 15, 2026 · 35:20
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Andy Glyde, strategy and insight lead at Bowel Cancer UK, and Phillipa Williams, strategy director at the behaviour change and…
May 8, 2026 · 36:39
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Burt are joined by Joy Warmington, chief executive of the equality charity Brap. Joy highlights some of the limitations of standard equity, diversity and…
May 1, 2026 · 28:24
Host Lucinda Rouse is joined by Third Sector colleagues Emily Burt, Andy Ricketts and Emily Harle to talk about three significant sector stories from the past month. Emily Harle…
Apr 24, 2026 · 30:48
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Charmaine Griffiths, chief executive of the British Heart Foundation. Charmaine outlines the BHF’s new commitments on equality,…
Apr 20, 2026 · 20:06
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle discuss snippets from a recent interview Emily conducted with Carol Homden, chief executive of the children’s charity Coram. Carol explains the…
Apr 17, 2026 · 30:11
Lucinda Rouse and Andy Ricketts are joined by Rebecca Fell, chief executive of the refugee support charity the International Care Network, and the fundraising specialist Atul…
Apr 10, 2026 · 32:07
Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Saskia Lightburn-Ritchie, chief executive of the domestic abuse support charity MyCWA. Saskia recounts how a long-standing commitment…
Apr 2, 2026 · 33:13
Lucinda Rouse is joined by Third Sector colleagues Emily Burt and Emily Harle to reflect on three significant sector stories from the past month. Emily Burt shares her…
Mar 30, 2026 · 15:54
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle discuss snippets from a recent interview Emily conducted with Matt Downie, chief executive of the homelessness charity Crisis. Matt provides insight…
Mar 27, 2026 · 30:38
**Content warning: This episode contains references to suicide and sexual abuse** Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by safeguarding specialist Joanna Nicolas and…
Mar 20, 2026 · 33:40
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Stephen Roberts, chief executive of North Devon Hospice, to discuss the organisation’s response to some of the challenges facing the…
Mar 13, 2026 · 32:56
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Burt are joined by Emma Turner, chief executive of Mind in Croydon. Emma lays bare the operational realities of meeting soaring service demand in the face…
Mar 6, 2026 · 28:04
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Burt are joined by Richard Angell, chief executive of the Terrence Higgins Trust, and Rupert Whitaker, psychiatrist, immunologist and co-founder of the…
Feb 27, 2026 · 23:55
Host Lucinda Rouse is joined by Third Sector colleagues Emily Burt, Emily Harle and Andy Ricketts to reflect on three significant sector stories from the past month. Emily Burt…
Feb 20, 2026 · 30:04
Andy Ricketts and Dami Adewale are joined by John Fitzgerald, digital evolution project manager at the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations. John describes some of the…
Feb 13, 2026 · 28:33
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Burt are joined by Emily Cotter, marketing, PR and communications officer at Leeds Mind, and Col Grist, co-founder and creative director of the digital…
Feb 6, 2026 · 22:25
Lucinda Rouse is joined by Third Sector colleagues Emily Harle, Dami Adewale and Andy Ricketts to reflect on three significant sector stories from the past month. Dami recounts…
Jan 30, 2026 · 22:08
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Chloe Hadjimatheou, narrative editor at the Observer, who conducted an award-winning exposé of the main characters in the bestselling…
Jan 26, 2026 · 18:11
Emily Harle and Emily Burt discuss snippets from a recent interview with Hannah Bond and Taahra Ghazi, the new co-chief executives of ActionAid UK. Hannah speaks of the value of…
Jan 23, 2026 · 34:45
Emily Burt and Emily Harle are joined by Zia Salik, interim director of Islamic Relief UK, to talk about the rising levels of Islamophobia and racism targeting the charity. Zia…
Jan 16, 2026 · 34:15
Emily Harle and Dami Adewale are joined by Madeleine Jennings, head of policy and communications at the Local Trust. Madeleine describes how her team has worked to translate…
Jan 9, 2026 · 40:45
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Burt are joined by Kate Lee, chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, to discuss some of the issues facing the voluntary…
Dec 22, 2025 · 18:30
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle discuss snippets from a recent interview Emily conducted with Matt Stringer, chief executive of the Royal National Institute of Blind People. Matt…
Dec 19, 2025 · 31:13
Lucinda Rouse is joined by Emily Burt, Emily Harle and Andy Ricketts to dissect the leading stories from the voluntary sector in 2025. Lucinda delivers a speedy round-up of the…
Dec 12, 2025 · 33:32
Lucinda Rouse and Andy Ricketts are joined by Clara Govier, managing director of the People’s Postcode Lottery. Clara outlines the process for disbursing funds to charities and…
Dec 5, 2025 · 30:37
Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Jane Ide, chief executive of the charity leaders body Acevo, to reflect on some of the issues facing sector leaders. Jane provides an…
Nov 28, 2025 · 33:21
Lucinda Rouse, Emily Harle and Emily Burt reflect on two significant sector issues from the past month. Emily Harle shares findings from a recent roundtable meeting of leaders…
Nov 21, 2025 · 33:17
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Burt are joined by Vic Harper, chief executive of the food redistribution charity The Bread and Butter Thing. Vic describes how the charity has taken a…
Nov 14, 2025 · 25:48
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Leicia Feare, associate director of communications and campaigns at the youth empowerment charity Mission 44. Leicia talks about the…
Nov 7, 2025 · 32:42
Lucinda Rouse and Andy Ricketts are joined by Ruth Hollis, chief executive of the Olympic legacy charity Spirit of 2012. Ruth reflects on the responsibility of being a funder…
Nov 5, 2025 · 10:53
Lucinda Rouse and Andy Ricketts share their thoughts on the announcement this week that Dame Julia Unwin has been named the preferred candidate to be the new chair of the Charity…
Oct 31, 2025 · 33:48
Lucinda Rouse, Emily Harle, Emily Burt and Dami Adewale reflect on some of the top sector stories from the past month. Emily Burt gives her thoughts on the state of the sector in…
Oct 24, 2025 · 13:28
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle discuss snippets from a recent interview Emily conducted with Andy Fletcher, chief executive of Muscular Dystrophy UK. As Andy enters his second…
Oct 17, 2025 · 38:53
Lucinda Rouse and Andy Ricketts are joined by Laura Kerby, chief executive of Prostate Cancer UK. Laura outlines the due diligence conducted by the charity to try to alleviate…
Oct 10, 2025 · 31:32
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Burt are joined by the civil society consultant Alex Evans to talk about the role of freelancers in the charity workforce. They discuss the findings of a…
Oct 3, 2025 · 32:11
Lucinda Rouse, Andy Ricketts, Emily Harle and Dami Adewale reflect on some recent voluntary sector news. Emily shares snippets from an interview with Breast Cancer Now’s chief…
Sep 26, 2025 · 27:27
Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Helen McShane, director of research, innovation and systems change at Young Lives vs Cancer. Helen explains how Young Lives vs Cancer…
Sep 19, 2025 · 34:47
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Paul Winyard, head of policy at the Fundraising Regulator. Paul provides insight into the new Code of Fundraising Practice, which will…
Sep 17, 2025 · 13:27
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Manny Amadi, chief executive of C&E Advisory, to talk about the firm’s Corporate-Non-Profit Partnerships Barometer 2025 . Manny…
Sep 12, 2025 · 35:51
Lucinda Rouse and Andy Ricketts are joined by Mark Russell, chief executive of The Children’s Society. Mark speaks openly about the challenges of leading a major charity through…
Sep 5, 2025 · 32:43
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Stuart Pearson, head of innovation at Citizens Advice Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale and Trafford, and Zoe Amar, founder of the digital…
Aug 29, 2025 · 37:30
Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Emma Revie, co-chief executive of Trussell, and the strategy and change management specialist Martyn Drake. Emma explains why…
Aug 22, 2025 · 28:45
Lucinda Rouse and Andy Ricketts are joined by Ruth Marvel, chief executive of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, to talk about the charity’s new impact measurement framework. Ruth…
Aug 15, 2025 · 31:42
Lucinda Rouse visits the Dogs Trust’s head office to meet the charity’s chief executive, Owen Sharp. Owen talks about the recent restructure of Dogs Trust as part of a new…
Aug 8, 2025 · 31:52
Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Toby Freeman, chief executive of the Robin Cancer Trust, and the charity finance and governance specialist Pesh Framjee. Toby shares…
Aug 1, 2025 · 33:27
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Nicole Sykes, director of policy, communications and research at the Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales. They discuss some…
Jul 25, 2025 · 34:03
Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Natasha Friend and Robin Morgan-Chu, the director and chair respectively of the grantmaker Camden Giving, to discuss the merits and…
Jul 23, 2025 · 12:15
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle summarise the contents of the recently-launched Civil Society Covenant between the government and civil society. They reflect on comments made by…
Jul 18, 2025 · 37:48
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by are joined by Dan Lawes, co-chief executive of the youth democracy charity My Life My Say, to consider how charities working in all…
Jul 11, 2025 · 28:54
Lucinda Rouse and Andy Ricketts are joined by Nihara Krause, chief executive of the youth mental health charity Stem4, to talk about the organisation’s quest for long-term…
Jul 4, 2025 · 32:12
Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Gary Laybourne, chief executive of the sports coaching apprenticeship charity Coach Core. Gary outlines some of the voluntary sector…
Jun 20, 2025 · 11:04
Lucinda Rouse hears from some of the speakers at Third Sector: The Conference 2025, which was held at the Barbican Centre in London this week (18 and 19 June). They are: Sarah…
Jun 17, 2025 · 28:38
This episode contains a reference to suicide in the first two minutes. In November 2022, the transgender youth support charity Mermaids was in crisis. Caught up in a media storm…
Jun 13, 2025 · 23:47
Lucinda Rouse and Andy Ricketts are joined by Victoria Askew, senior marketing campaign manager at Pancreatic Cancer UK, to hear about the organisation’s experience as the…
Jun 10, 2025 · 32:38
In April 2020, 99-year-old war veteran Captain Tom Moore became an unexpected national hero after raising £38.9m in less than four weeks by walking 100 laps of his garden. But…
Jun 6, 2025 · 28:56
Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Janet Thorne, chief executive of Reach Volunteering, and Nathan Miller, director at the East London Waterworks Park. Janet provides…
Jun 3, 2025 · 28:54
In August 2015, one of the country’s most prominent children’s charities, Kids Company, was declared insolvent. Its collapse has been followed by almost a decade of legal…
May 30, 2025 · 29:43
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Saskia Konynenburg, executive director of voice and impact at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, and the volunteering…
May 23, 2025 · 30:39
Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Russell Winnard, chief executive of the care leaver support charity the Drive Forward Foundation, to discuss the introduction of a…
May 16, 2025 · 30:38
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Lynne Guyton, chief executive of John Lyon’s Charity, and Sacha Rose-Smith, chief funding director at the City Bridge Foundation.…
May 9, 2025 · 31:35
Lucinda Rouse and Andy Ricketts are joined by Dan Tickle, chief executive of the National Migraine Centre, and Peter Holbrook, chief executive of Social Enterprise UK. Dan…
May 2, 2025 · 21:22
Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Ben Williamson, director of recruitment at the incubator organisation Charity Entrepreneurship. Ben outlines the different ways of…
Apr 25, 2025 · 26:19
Lucinda Rouse and Andy Ricketts are joined by Iain Heaton, deputy chief executive and chief financial officer at the Blue Cross, and Tiggy McCool, partner at the management…
Apr 17, 2025 · 29:02
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Claire Goodwin-Fee, chief executive of the psychological support organisation Frontline19, to consider the mental health challenges…
Apr 11, 2025 · 29:58
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Philip Goodwin, chief executive of Unicef UK, to discuss the realities facing international development and humanitarian charities…
Apr 4, 2025 · 22:13
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Louise Harris, chief operating officer of the homelessness charity Crisis, to learn about successful and meaningful approaches to…
Mar 28, 2025 · 30:01
Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Claire Gauci, public safety campaigns and programme manager at the Canal and River Trust, and Emily Rayner, senior consultant at the…
Mar 21, 2025 · 29:53
Lucinda Rouse and Andy Ricketts are joined by Okela Douglas-Norgrove, chief executive of Sister System, which supports young women and girls who have been affected by the care…
Mar 14, 2025 · 30:32
Acting editor Andy Ricketts and senior reporter Emily Harle are joined by Emma Guise, director of marketing and communications at Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity. Emma talks…
Mar 7, 2025 · 32:09
Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Keith Wilson, director of income and engagement at the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance. Keith explains how depressed…
Feb 28, 2025 · 28:24
Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Mark Greer, managing director at the Charities Aid Foundation, and Charlotte Prothero, external affairs manager at Pro Bono Economics.…
Feb 21, 2025 · 33:25
Lucinda Rouse and Dami Adewale are joined by Sohail Hanif, chief executive of the National Zakat Foundation, and Taqwa Sadiq, presenter and producer of the BBC audio series…
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