Listening to all the coverage over the general election made me wonder what it would be like to have a ‘politician’ working with us in our office.

Cameron’s slim majority presents opportunities for lobbyists from all sectorsAt the first Cabinet meeting, David Cameron held aloft the Conservative manifesto and said:

Opinion pollsters don’t have an enviable job. We regularly work with surveys and we know that it’s often an inexact science.

So the results are pretty much in as this goes to press. The Conservatives have stormed to victory and Labour has been condemned rather than Con-Dem-ed to another five years in Opposition.

The charity world has a conflicted attitude towards companies. There are many charities with large teams dedicated to building corporate partnerships and raising substantial income.

As summer approaches with the first tantalising signs of sun, now is the time to start planning for summer internships. Despite controversy about pay, charity summer internships can be a brilliant exchange of experience, skills and work between charity and intern.

Our extensive research with the general public gives us a great insight into how people see charities. From within the sector it’s easy to forget that most people have little experience of how charities really work and spend very little time thinking about it!

Over the last 20 years, an awful lot of the British public have started give to charity because some fundraiser or other persuaded them to donate a very small monthly amount.

The charity sector’s relationship with the media has always been something of a mixed bag. On the one hand, media coverage can provide a tremendous boost to a charity’s campaigns and services.

nfpSynergy speak to over 30,000 people about charities every year to bring charities the incisive data they need to inform their work. Occasionally, we break some of it down into a handy quiz.

Each year at nfpSynergy we aim to distribute a portion of our profits to our 20 or so staff. We have christened this ‘The Passion Pot’.

In December last year, several Conservative MPs tried to stop the 0.

Viral social media campaigns were the biggest charity news stories of 2014. nfpSynergy has been monitoring these developments through our Journalists’ Attitudes & Awareness Monitor (JAAM), a survey we run twice a year with journalists who write about the third sector.