Joe Saxton is Driver of Ideas at nfpSynergy and its founder. Joe works on a range of specific projects, especially those that look at strategic advice on fundraising or communications, or wider organisational issues. He has co-authored over 70 reports on charities from branding to trusteeship and organisational strategy.
Joe was chair of the Institute of Fundraising from 2005-2008. He was co-founder and chair of CharityComms from 2006 to 2013, and chair of the student environment and development campaign group People & Planet from 2005 to 2015. For six years he was a trustee of the RSPCA and chair of both the Public Affairs and International committees. He is now chair of the Parentkind which has over 14,000 members and aims to develop parent engagement with schools.
He was in the top ten of the most influential people in UK fundraising for over a decade, including four years in the top spot. In 2007 and 2008, he was named one of the 1000 most influential people in London by the Evening Standard. In 2009, PR Week named him as the 2nd most influential person in voluntary sector PR and communications. He was highly commended in Third Sector’s trustee award in 2013.
Before nfpSynergy, Joe was Director of Communications at the RNID, Britain’s largest charity for deaf and hard of hearing people. At RNID he was responsible for PR, disability consultancy, lobbying, campaigning, policy, information and membership. He was also with Brann, the world’s largest direct marketing group, for five years and has worked with numerous charities. He co-founded the Journal of Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Marketing.
Joe lives in Keswick in the Lake District and is married with three children.
To contact Joe, email him at joe.saxton@nfpsynergy.net, or call on 07976 329212.
Joe's articles
- Charity lotteries - big opportunities and minimal risks
- Structural and strategic devolution in charities – how far should charities go?
- Will Covid mean the end of the road for fundraising directors?
- Is charging beneficiaries* the route to sustainability for some charities?
- Percentage giving at lowest level since nfpSynergy started polling
- Covid-19 has shown yet again how important charities are in delivering public services
- Trustees now need to be professional volunteers. Is that a good thing?
- Eight opportunities that the Coronavirus crisis reveals for the charity sector
- Eight flaws that the Coronavirus crisis reveals about the charity sector
- New research: the UK’s BAME population is likely to be at the heart of the coronavirus volunteer response
- The ways that COVID-19 is affecting the charity sector – and what can be done about it
- Show me the money! How charities show financial data that differs from their formal accounts
- 20 predictions for the future – how might the charity world have changed in 20 years?
- Give and Take: why is it so hard to measure public giving in the UK?
- Hitting the right note: Does the charity sector have a problem with whistle-blowing?
- Trustee Special: The twelve roles of a charity chair
- What can Domino’s pizza teach charities about looking after donors?
- Our millennial staff will probably be in big trouble over pensions
- Ten reasons why Wales needs its own Charity Regulator
- Deg rheswm pam mae Cymru angen rheoleiddiwr elusennau ei hun
- Fundraising around the world: learning from charity sectors in other countries
- There is no digital revolution in charities*. And probably never will be.
- That’s the ticket: public and MP opposition to charity lottery regulation
- High Five: five big ways that the world of media has changed in the last two decades
- Key things our ‘Life after GDPR’ surveys tell us
- Stop clutching at straws: support for overseas development charities is low and shrinking
- The Ageing Population: what impact will a 100-year life have on charities
- The great gamble the Lake District National Park is taking with its wildlife
- Why Love Island tells charities a lot about brand and supporter care
- Four weird and wonderful things about the world of charities
- Briefing: everything Baroness Stowell needs to know about trust in charities
- Sign the FareShare petition to help waste less food and help more charities.
- 10 things every CEO should understand about raising money from grant-making trusts
- It’s time to transform financial reporting for charities
- Parentkind: a force for good in education
- The future for fundraising is rich with opportunity
- Is fundraising f**ked?
- Internships must be allowed to be voluntary!
- Ad Infinitum - How charity media expenditure patterns are changing
- New research - how auditors, the charity commission and summaries can promote public trust
- United Utilities are creating a 60 mile scar, 130 feet wide, through the Lake District. And the National Park gave them permission.
- Who cares about admin? Ten nuggets on how the public think their ideal charity should spend its money
- Ten useful-to-know things about trust in charities and other bodies
- Random Control Trials for charities - another false dawn for evaluation?
- Twenty things we learned from our National Trustee Survey
- What's doing a Gift Aid claim for a small charity really like? Eight nuggets from the frontline
- Facts and Figures - Public's Favourite Causes 2016
- Trust in who? Where is the charity sector with trust and why does it matter?
- It all comes flooding back
- Twenty challenges that the Fundraising Preference Service needs to cope with
- The Fundraising Review - one month on
- Reasons to be gloomy about the coming decade for charities
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