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.

Everyone working in a charity is looking for the next big thing that will help them deliver their mission. How can we grow?

Your staff are on the front line of portraying your organisation’s vision, values and messages.