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Guides and news for useful work.

Practical guides, updates and notes on making work easier to run when the structure has not kept up with the quality of the work.

guide 25 Jun 2026

Running a good organisation in a harder environment

The environment has changed faster than most organisations have adapted

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guide 24 Jun 2026

Your organisation isn't broken. It's just running on a model that made sense three years ago.

The impact sector has had a rough few years operationally, and not always for the reasons people say out loud. Yes, funding is tighter. Yes, demand is up. But the quieter problem, the one that doesn't make it into board reports, is that a lot of organisations are now running on infrastructure built for a simpler version of themselves.

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