Chair, investor, and adviser to a small number of organisations doing important work.

Interested in long-term thinking, social change, and ambitious ideas that do not fit neatly into existing categories.

Recent writing

  • Beyond fundraising: New business models for social progress

    We recently wrote about the death of fundraising and the threat to traditional ideas of charity as people embed ideas of impact and purpose into every aspect of…

  • Scenario planning for a post-crisis world

    (originally published at www.firetail.co.uk) Scenario planning is a strategic tool designed to help organisations prepare for a range of possible futures. It is not about predicting the future. Fundamentally,…

  • The death of fundraising

    Even before the pandemic, traditional charity fundraising was stagnating. The pandemic has turned a conversation about the challenges of long-term decline into one about short-term collapse.  Thinking about…

  • Choices in a crisis v choices for renewal

    [This is based on a quick twitter thread we published] “We’re out of the whack-a-mole phase” according to one CEO I spoke to this week. As organisations move beyond the…