There’s a whole other world out there, one of peace and birdsong. It’s right where you are, you just have to wake up early to find it.
On 3 May, join the #DawnChorusClub.
Mark your calendars, set your alarms, and get ready for dawn.
AI chatbots can sound authoritative on health, but new research shows they often mislead, especially when users must interpret and apply the answers themselves.
Last chance approaching…
📸The London Rivers Week Photography Comp 2026 is open for entries.
🪴Showcase London’s rivers: nature, wildlife, and people enjoying blue spaces.
📷 Deadline: 1 May
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This a great opportunity to make impact for a talented big tech campaigner. If you know someone it could fit, please share. Thanks! 👇
Across England, nearly 60% of hospices have already made or are planning to make cuts to services this year, while 380 beds sit unused.
As demand for palliative care rises, this article looks at the hospices behind the cuts, and what these cuts mean for them.
www.hospiceuk.org/latest-from-...
330 word piece of text from social media from DJT. Starts with 156 word sentence. This is taken from Hemmingway App which analyses readability. 2/13 sentences are very hard to read. 4/13 hard to read. Includes 11 weakening words.
Gonna use this in writing for the web training.
Rather than putting up party posters in windows ahead of an election, put your own posters in the window sharing the issues and campaigns you care about - local, national and global - to show the canvassers what matters to the catchment.
Like these posters.
The image features a green background with text about "The Knowledge Hub." It announces updates and highlights new additions and services for organizational members, including resources for those with Small Charities membership and on-demand video resources.
The image is a promotional banner for a course titled "Building a Fundraising Ready Organisation," presented by Emma Low and Emma-Louise Singh. It features two circular inset photos of the presenters against a teal background with decorative elements.
The image is a promotional graphic for a knowledge hub event titled "Supporter Experience Research - Insights and Actions for Fundraisers." It features headshots of four individuals presented as Richard Spencer, Roger Lawson, Natasha Evans, and Kay Harrison. The text highlights the importance of supporter insights for fundraising success.
This image is a promotional banner for a knowledge hub titled "Building a Case for Support." It features circular photos of two individuals against a white brick wall background. The series is presented by Emma Low and Emma-Louise Singh. The text describes a three-part on-demand series aimed at guiding users in developing a fundraising case for support. There are paragraphs providing more information about the series' objectives and benefits on a green background.
Sometimes there isn’t time for a full training course - but you don’t have to miss out on sector insight.
The Knowledge Hub offers bite-sized, on-demand learning for Organisational Members.
Practical, expert-led content to support your fundraising, with new courses added 👉 https://bit.ly/4uPEFvE
Free event: Ian Sanders the host of the Cold War Conversations Podcast explores how digital storytelling is transforming the way we encounter our Cold War past.
How is the Cold War being rediscovered, reinterpreted, and retold in the digital age?
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-media-...
London-based crisis comms nerds - this event is for you.
Navigating crisis communications - PR storms in the digital age.
Tuesday 28 April, 6pm, WC2H.
The Media Society.
France is switching from Microsoft to Linux
"We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."
spruce and tall fir trees in the forest
Hello and welcome new followers.
We're an ad-free, AI-free podcast of sounds from real places.
We share quiet for anyone to enjoy when they need an escape.
Try this as a first listen
Episode 222 - The trees of Kielder Forest before dawn (51mins)
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We've just published a short, easy-to-follow guide to growing 14 different vegetables. Ideal for anyone new to vegetable growing, school gardening groups, etc. Printable PDF available for a small donation (which helps keep Little Green Space going!)
buymeacoffee.com/LGSpace/e/52...
The @nationaltrust.org.uk only rarely ask their members to take political action, but when they do, it’s seismic.
Please take the NT’s action, email your MP demanding the Government protect 30% of the UK for nature by 2030: campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk/page/186395/...
bsky.app/profile/nati...
Great remote-first job with @gojauntly.bsky.social.
Community and Social Media Manager
The image is an event advertisement featuring the SOFII logo. It promotes the session "I Wish I’d Thought of That" happening on Friday, 5 June, from 14.00 to 15.15. The text notes that applications close on 13 April and encourages participants to champion an impressive fundraising campaign or concept. The background is colorful with a mix of geometric shapes.
If you’d love to inspire your peers at #CIOFFC and champion a brilliant piece of fundraising join the IWITOT run with Sofii.
Applications close on 13 April. IWITOT speakers receive a free ticket to the Friday of the convention, when the session will take place.
Apply now: https://bit.ly/403UbWX
carpet of bluebells in a wood. green leaves of the plant, single stem of flowers. just perfect. took our breath away as it was so beautiful.
We were not expecting this on our day-off walk yesterday.
A full carpet of bluebells stretching in all directions. A haze of blue. Beautiful scent in the air.
What a way to welcome April.
Animation of the mission route.
[AD= the red dot of the Artemis II leaves earth, circles behind it, then heads for a point 4 days later to coincide with the moon which is moving around the earth. It briefly goes behind the moon at day 5, then takes another 4 days to come back to earth.]
Countdown to lift off
And this from @themerl.bsky.social.
And this from @rigb.org
Wasn't sure I could cope with April Fools jokes this year but there have been some nice gentle stories.
Like this from @bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
Now with added #SmileyCFA26 #GSKIMPACTUK and links from some of the winners / finalists.
FT Community Manager job at the fabulous @gojauntly.bsky.social. Remote with one day in the London office per week.
Part-time fundraising job with the fabulous @communityrail.bsky.social. Home-based.
#CharityJob ❤️
Light yellow rectangle with dark blue text 'The Fore's Summer 2026 Funding Rounds, Registration is open now!' Dark blue rectangle with white text 'Registration takes 2 minutes and is open from midday today (25th March) to midday on Thursday 1 April' plus The Fore logo
Don't miss...
The Summer round of unrestricted #funding for small charities from The Fore closes at 12 midday TOMORROW (1 Apr)
thefore.org/apply-for-fu...
NCVO (@ncvo.bsky.social) chief executive Kate Lee has apologised to the umbrella body’s members over “uncertainty and confusion” caused by recent staff changes
Looking forward to this.
Book now.
Your post-Easter self will thank you.
Here are a few other good news stories.
