Impetus @impetus.org.uk We transform the lives of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds by ensuring they get the right support to succeed in school, in work and in life.
https://www.impetus.org.uk/
Alex White @alexwhitewrites.bsky.social Award-winning writer and editor, passionate about books, accessibility, disability rights and oral history. Fan of Norwich City, Sussex and England cricket. Views personal. www.AlexWhiteWrites.com
Penny-Samantha Butcher @pennysamb.bsky.social VCSE Programme Manager at HNY Integrated Care Board.
But lover of all things art, nature, innovation and community development @loveandpeace
@timeforpositivechange
Sophie Hayes Foundation @sophiehayesfnd.bsky.social Charity working with women survivors of modern slavery to achieve sustainable freedom from exploitation.
https://www.sophiehayesfoundation.org/
Mandy @mandylifeboats.bsky.social Happily married, cat loving Londoner. Leftie, activist, journalist (sub) but ME shrank my world … now housebound but still smiling. Mostly!
#pwME #ChronicIllness #ME/cfs #Spoonie #ChronicPain #cats #CatsOfBlueSky #DadJokes #BeKind
The Charity Show @thecharityshow.bsky.social 🎙️Charity from every angle 🎙️
The podcast for charity insiders, by charity insiders.
Hosts Tim Beynon & Piers Townley tackle the topics that matter for third sector staff, fundraisers, supporters & charity gurus!
linktr.ee/thecharityshow
UnLtd @unltd.org.uk We are UnLtd. We find, fund and support social entrepreneurs, empowering them to transform our world for good
Ed Howarth @edhowarth.bsky.social Co-Director @Climate Barometer https://climatebarometer.org/, Co-Director of Tech4Good SW - https://tech4goodsouthwest.org/. Previously, Power to Change and Bath Social&Development Research
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-howarth-74136178. Bristol based.
Directory of Social Change @dsc-charity.bsky.social The UK’s leading provider of training, publications and best-selling funding sources for the charity sector – helping you to help others.
Ross McCulloch @thirdsectorlab.co.uk Tech for good insights, digital activism and occasional photos of Scotland.
Founder at Third Sector Lab - Helping charities deliver more impact with digital, data & design ⚡️
https://thirdsectorlab.co.uk/
36k Twitter followers - starting from 0 here.
Jay Frost @gordonjayfrost.bsky.social I bring together people, ideas, and resources to fuel positive change in the world. Podcaster. Speaker. Writer. Consultant. Music and movie lover. Host of the Philanthropy Masterminds Series (https://www.donorsearch.net/mms-page/).
The Street Library @streetlibrary.ataxia.scot The Street Library. Where books get social 📚
Use YOUR books - to raise funds for YOUR favourite charity.
http://StreetLibrary.co.uk
Main Bluesky account: @ataxia.scot
Here for civil society leaders @acevo.bsky.social Together with our network, we inspire and support civil society leaders through connection, skills and influence. Our members lead civil society organisations of every shape and size across England and Wales: acevo.org.uk
Third Sector @thirdsector.co.uk The UK's leading title for the voluntary and not-for-profit sector. Home of the Third Sector Podcast: https://podfollow.com/thirdsector/view
Luke Alsford @lukealsford.bsky.social News Reporter at Metro || always happy to chat at Luke.Alsford@metro.co.uk
Science News @scinews.bsky.social Science News from Academic Journals etc.
Ryan Miemczyk @theimpactlab.co.uk ONS Accredited Researcher | Founder of imd2025.co.uk & theimpactlab.co.uk | Director of Research @ Trust Impact | Chair @ ManchesterYoungLives | Deputy Chair @ YMCAManchester |
I help charities measure the important stuff
https://linktr.ee/ryanmiemczyk
Sarah Clarke @artsatrandom.bsky.social Sharing things about art, design, marketing, social media, charities and the insanity of the skibidi slang of 10 year-olds. And sometimes posting dog photos, watercolours and assorted illustrations. Head of membership and insight at CharityComms.
Jenny Edwards CBE @jennyedwards.bsky.social Personal capacity. Chair People's Health Trust, Trustee Affinity Trust. Fellow Fac Public Health. Mental Health, Arts, Learning Disability, Health Inequalities, Mindfulness, Peace, Nature Connection, Swans. Studied Archaeology & Anthropology. Typos galore
Sophie Wilson @sophiewilson73.bsky.social Director of Research at Birmingham Voluntary Service Council, and doctoral student with the Institute for Community Research and Development at the University of Wolverhampton
Lauren Crosby Medlicott @laurenmedlicott.bsky.social Freelance Journalist
Charity Times @charitytimes.bsky.social Charity Times is the leading charity leadership title for third sector professionals
Home of the #CharityTimesAwards
https://www.charitytimes.com
Melissa Moody @themelissamoody.bsky.social Charity Times deputy editor, points of light winner and all-round nerd.
Got a story? Email me Melissa.moody@charitytimes.com
Geoff RJ @geoffrj.bsky.social Grant making charity case dedicating my career to the redistribution of wealth.
Proud European. COYS.
Small charities Grant making Movies Dogs and the Wonders of Space.
Humanity First UK @humanityfirstuk.bsky.social #ServingMankind We are a multisector, international NGO, Working on humanitarian development projects and disaster relief in countries around the world.
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com
🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
Howard Lake @howardlake.bsky.social Exploring growing giving on a massive scale (founder Giving X Ltd). Digital fundraising entrepreneur: founded UK Fundraising (fundraising.co.uk | @ukfundraising.bsky.social) in 1994, sold it in 2022. Co-founder GoodJobs, Fundraising Camp, BarcampNonprofits
John Hannen @jhannen.bsky.social Business Development Lead for @vsnw.bsky.social - Connecting, empowering and championing the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector to shape a brighter future for the North West
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Ravi Gurumurthy @raviguru.bsky.social CEO, Nesta and Behavioural Insights Team. Governor, Health Foundation.
What I do: applied research, venture building, policy. Particularly in net zero, education and health.
Laura Bunt @laurabunt.bsky.social CEO at YoungMinds. Society, technology, design, change. Hoping this is a more hopeful place.
Victoria Anderson-McCann @vandersonmccann.bsky.social Reputation management and privacy lawyer by day. CEO of a social mobility charity, @acceptedcharity.bsky.social / 'BVL' by night. All views my own
Email me: victoria.anderson@accepted.org.uk
David Bull CBE @davidnbull.bsky.social David Bull CBE, ex CEO Unicef UK & Amnesty International UK, leadership coach/mentor, consultant on charity & international development strategy & governance, Dep Chair of The Power of Nutrition, amateur photographer, interested in astronomy and genealogy.
Jane Ide @janeideceo.bsky.social Proud CEO of ACEVO, the membership body for civil society leaders in England & Wales. Chair of Reach Volunteering, trustee of Access Foundation for Social Investment. Here to talk civil society & related stuff. Also on Linked In. X does not mark the spot.
Dr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social Head of Policy, Progs and Media at AdviceUK. Former Dep Director at Women’s Budget Group, interim CEO and Dep Director of The Runnymede Trust & CEO of Equality Trust. Worked across Government and on national Commissions. Views my own.
James Watson-O'Neill @jwatsononeill.bsky.social Activist
Chief Executive of Sense
Trustee of National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)
Non Executive Director at SW London and St George’s NHS Mental Health Trust
Views my own
Ellen O’Donoghue @ellenod.bsky.social CEO James’ Place, Co-Chair National Suicide Prevention Alliance. Health, public health and social change.
Judi @judi.graysky.social Suffolk mum and CEO of St Elizabeth Hospice. Passionate about health equity and encouraging Compassionate Communities to support one another. Posting mostly personal but bit of work too, opinions are all my own.
Janet Thorne @janetthorne.bsky.social CEO of Reach Volunteering, Trustee of The Movements Trust.
Trying to distract myself from worrying about the state of the world
Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social CEO @praxisprojects.bsky.social. Chair @refugeestogether.bsky.social. Brummie. All views own (subject to personal growth and development).
Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk 🌃 @futuresounds.bsky.social writer, podcast mbr, & socials | 🏙 public relations for charities & social purpose orgs | a founding mbr of @CharityComms.bsky.social | crowdfunder @80shorrordoc.bsky.social
#CassetteCulture #Vaporwave #Boombap #TwinPeaks
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social CEO of Citizens Advice
Beccy Earnshaw @beccyearnshaw.bsky.social Talker & doer.
Founding CEO Voice 21 & SchoolsNE and advisor to the Oracy Commission. School Governor & Trustee. Passions: education, 'the North’, civic engagement, dogs & the Archers
Hannah Corbett @hannahcthinks.bsky.social Research-led storytelling, charities, social enterprise, civil society, wellbeing economy, leadership, AI, inequality, social justice. Head of Communications at the Nuffield Foundation.
Anna Feuchtwang @annafeuchtwang.bsky.social Chief Executive National Children's Bureau. These are my views not necessarily theirs.
Will Cardy @willcardy.com Possibilist. Vegan. Fermenter. Rambler. Charity trustee. COO Platypus Digital. 🤙 (he/him) 📍Sheffield
Rach R @rach23erd.bsky.social #LoVols / Head of Volunteering - Leeds Hospitals Charity / Trustee - Leeds Baby Bank / will one day own a pair of Joy Division oven gloves
David Smith @david3012.bsky.social Trustee at Hospice UK and Chair at St Leonards Hospice, York. #Charity #MentalHealth #EOLC. Geeky collector of retro computers, old school scifi (Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Star Trek), caravanner. #IkHouVanHolland
Tom Lay @thatcharityman.bsky.social Hi 👋🏻 I’m Tom and I work at Cancer Research UK as the Head of Talent & Influencers. Also a Trustee at St. Catherine’s Hospice. (all views my own)
Frank Fletcher @frankfletcher.bsky.social Charity leader. Samaritan volunteer. South London boy now living on the Isle of Wight
Clare Cook @tigercubmum.bsky.social Mum of two youngsters and slave to one cavapoo. Charity Fundraising and Comms Director.
Kim Shutler @kimshutler.bsky.social CEO at The Cellar Trust mental health charity & West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board Sector Lead for the VCSE. Happily woke. Geeky about VCSE, health & care, integration, leadership and tackling inequalities. MBE. Views my own.
James Cairns @james-cairns.bsky.social Working in Cyber. Interested in community, politics and current affairs.
Cathy Ashley 🇺🇦 @cathyashley.bsky.social Chief Exective of the national child welfare charity Family Rights Group www.frg.org.uk
Decent mother, aunt and friend (I hope)
✡️ Trustee of HIAS+JCORE
2009-16 Chair of Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.
Salsa dance and run (sort of)
Digital Marketing - Kayley Dempsey @kayleydempsey.bsky.social Strategic Marketing Lead for @autisticsociety.bsky.social
Trustee for @MelanomaFocus
CF Mama, Runner, Tofu Eating Wokerati
She/Her
Peter Wanless @peterwanless.bsky.social Former CEO of NSPCC (2013-2024) now available for all sorts of bits and bobs. President of Somerset County Cricket Club, Ebbsfleet United fan and proud owner of a functioning iPod classic
Rob McDowall AMRSPH MIHSCM FRSA @mcdowall.me Chair, Welfare Scotland | EQHR Commissioner | Experts by Experience Panel at 🏴 Poverty and Inequality Commn | AMRSPH Assoc | Fellow of Royal Society of Arts | MIHSCM Institute Health & Social Care Mgmt | 🏳️🌈 ♿️ #LGBT+ | He/Him
Jacob Lant @jacoblant.bsky.social Chief Exec at National Voices, England’s leading network of over 200 health and social care charities. Long time champion of involving people and communities in designing health and care services. Also loves DIY, libraries and Sheffield Wednesday.
Mr Joe Jenkins @mrjoejenkins.bsky.social Charity leader, hubby, dad, spare human for pup; and everything here is all me
Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social Chief Executive at UK public health charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) www.ash.org.uk
Louise Davies @louisedavies.bsky.social Chief exec of Scottish Fair Trade 💚 Let's have more compassion for people, planet & animals 🌱 vegan, #MDANT. Glasgow.
Matt Downie @mattdownie.bsky.social Trying this out…desperately seeking sanity.
CEO of Crisis. Chair of London Youth Theatre.
David Stokes Halpern Foundation CEO @dstokes-halpernceo.bsky.social Chief Executive Officer of the Halpern Charitable Foundation and Nucleus Arts.
Trustee MVA
Trustee Medway Sculpture Trust
Director Medway Pride
Director Kent International Arts Conference
Director Creative Medway
www.nucleusarts.com
He/Him
Nick Temple @nicktemple.bsky.social CEO @thesocialinvest.bsky.social; social enterprise, social investment, coffee, NFL.. #socent #socinv #impinv #charity
Julie Bentley @juliebentley.bsky.social Proud to be a UK Charity sector leader.
Debbie Wilson @debswilson.bsky.social Chairperson and founder of Inflammatory Arthritis UK.
New charity for anyone of any age impacted by IA. Inflammatoryarthritis.org
🎙Inflammatory! Podcast
Trustee of ARMA, Teapot Trust 🫖
patient/parent advocate of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.
Mark @markkelvin.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️⚖️ 🌍🌱🐶🎭🧑🦯👩🏭🧘🙏
Toby Porter @tobyhporter.bsky.social Proud & lucky to be CEO of the charity @hospiceuk.bsky.social Formerly with Acorns Children's Hospice, HelpAge International, Save the Children and Oxfam.
Liz White @lizcwhite.bsky.social Book lover. Tea drinker. Incorrigibly plural.
Gail Jackson @gail-jackson.bsky.social Proud Mum of two teens.
Also proud CEO of solvingkidscancer.org.uk.
London, New York, Lincolnshire.
Bluesky curious.
Federico Moscogiuri @federicom.bsky.social Non-profit CEO. Founding Director, www.C4Urselves.com
Nerys Anthony @nerys-a.bsky.social Executive Director at The Children’s Society - all things young people & impact, creating waves of change.
Mum to 3 humans & a dog. Slow runner. Love to laugh … all my own words & pictures here
(she/her)
Clare Mills @claremills.bsky.social Passionate about changing the world through policy work and excellence in communications (Dep CEO at CFG.org.uk). Charity trustee. Big fan of Northumberland, cycling, being outside. Occasional goat pics.
Beth Bell @bethbell.bsky.social Food, justice, people and love. Trainee optimist but also, if you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.
Co-founder Carrick Greengrocers
Co-chair Belfast Food Partnership
Next for Nonprofits @handle.invalid Ideas and insights for changemakers around the world
www.nextfornonprofits.com
Dan Paskins @danpaskins.bsky.social Save the Children UK Exec Director - UK Impact
Vice-Chair, End Child Poverty
Chair, Civic Power Fund
Jeremy Mitchell FRSA @mitchjer03.bsky.social Escaped banker, missing Twitter, Chair of The Edward Thomas Fellowship (https://edward-thomas-fellowship.org.uk/), Chair of Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery (https://www.petersfieldmuseum.co.uk/), and a bit of fundraising on the side.
Gemma Abbott @gemabbott.bsky.social Legal Director @thehowardleague.bsky.social. Trustee @dignityindying.org.uk. Views my own. She/her 🏴
Chris Graham @chrisgrahamuk.bsky.social Chief Executive at Picker. Interested in health policy, person centred care, and in understanding, measuring, and improving patient and staff experiences. All views are my own, reposts are not endorsements.
Vicki Mulligan @vickicji.bsky.social Deputy Director @cjinnovation.bsky.social - championing innovation in criminal & family justice. FDAC national lead. Trustee @prisonersed.bsky.social. Proud Northerner. Views my own (or ones I like)
Charlie Radclyffe @charlierad.bsky.social Advocates for those injured in military + disabled folk, founder http://veteranlawproject.org.uk, spinal cord injury, not a lawyer, manage land & forestry @ Dartmoor
Keith Wilson @keithwilson80.bsky.social Director of Income and Engagement at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance. Ex circus performer, fire breather and medieval chef, among other things. 💛💚💛
Mark Flannagan @markflannagan.bsky.social Part-time CEO of https://upcyclemcf.org/; trained funeral celebrant; hospice trustee
Matt Lent @mattlent.bsky.social CEO of youth employment charity - youthcareers.bsky.social and Trustee at Young Barnet Foundation.
Expect posts about young people, education, employment, politics & charity matters.
Dalton Leong @daltonleong.bsky.social Non-Executive Director, Surrey Downs Health & Care | Chair, Chartered Management Institute South East Regional Board | Trustee, National Emergencies Trust | Co-Chair, Board Racial Diversity UK | Chair, Surrey EDI Steering Group
Views are mine.
Quinn Runkle @quinn-runkle.bsky.social Climate Justice | Sustainability | Education
Director @sosukcharity 🌎 UCL IoE MEd
📍Sheffield, UK
Ben Hollebon @benhollebon.co.uk Methodist Church Director of Digital & Transformation, Type 1 diabetic (since 2007), podding (since 2022) and lover of Brighton & Hove Albion.
Iain McWhirter @iainmcw.bsky.social CEO at @revivems | Trustee at @BOOM_Arts | Previously @MNDScotland | Today's rain is tomorrow's whisky 🥃
Jonny Whitehead @jonnyw71.bsky.social CEO of Herts Young Homeless, Chair of Citizens Advice Welwyn Hatfield, AFC Wimbledon, ex Girlguiding, Age UK and Challenging Heights in Ghana, politics, science, other stuff and so on and so forth
Charlotte Morris @lottiemorris.bsky.social
Rashidfreed @rashidfreed.bsky.social People, Purpose, Planet, poetry & Place.
Charity CEO & Trustee & NUFC
https://www.theomareffect.com
Chris Sonnex @csonnex.bsky.social AD & JCEO Cardboard Citizens. Founder LDN Ticket Bank. Words/ opinions are my own B4 award winning AD Bunker Theatre
Unrepped, DM me for work shiz
Tom Bird @tomwbird.bsky.social CEO @SheffieldTheatres. Theatre producer, theatre manager, traveller, reader, football & cricket obsessive, northeasterner in Yorkshire.
Grant Mason @grantmason.bsky.social Chief Executive PACE Theatre (http://www.pacetheatre.com @pacetheatre.com). Opening a new theatre for young people (http://www.exchangetheatre.org)
ClareRed @clarered.bsky.social CEO of Watershed, a home for culture, technology and society. Also Chair of Wise Children. 🏳️🌈 Queer, nature loving, values driven. Will block hate
Helen Featherstone @hjfeathers.bsky.social Director, England North @heritagefund.org.uk Trustee @henrymoorefoundation Passionate about Art, Nature & Heritage
Keith Merrin @keithmerrin.bsky.social Director - North East Museums.
Trustee - Virgin Money Foundation.
Blooloop50 Museum Influencer 2024.
Museums, arts, music, heritage, football and stuff.
Views and opinions all my own.
Moira Sinclair OBE @moirasinclair.bsky.social NED I Coach I Consultant I Speaker |
Chair, Clore Leadership.
Chair, Factory International.
Trustee, National Landscapes Association.
Keen on arts and culture, social justice, strong communities.
Previously Paul Hamlyn Foundation/Arts Council England
Bernard Hay @bernardhay.bsky.social Head of Policy @ Creative Industries PEC
Trustee @ Engage
Fellow @ RSA
Previously @ Design Council, Design Museum, UAL.