It must have seemed a good idea at the time. AJ Bell, the popular investment platform and lead sponsor of the Great North Run, gave out miniature bells to hundreds of spectators lining the last mile of last Sunday’s race. Doubtless the product of a marketing brainstorm, the idea was to have a visible and […]
Alder was delighted to sponsor the launch of the National HIV Story Trust’s film archive, which took place at the Curzon cinema in Soho in February 2023. The Trust is a unique and important charity that tells the story of the HIV/AIDS pandemic through the personal testimony of those directly affected by it. The launch […]
The running charity parkrun found itself in hot water this week over a quite blatant financial conflict of interests that came into the public domain – and one which looks particularly bad in the context of a cost-of-living crisis and households across the country struggling to make ends meet. On Thursday afternoon, alongside stories appearing […]
Alder has extensive experience of advising organisations through times of crisis. Last week, we had a slightly different opportunity – lending our support to a charity dedicated to remembering one of the greatest crises of the last century – the AIDS epidemic of the 80s and 90s. The National HIV Story Trust‘s new book Love, Loss & […]
The last two years have been among the toughest ever known for charities, with controversies over executive pay, governance failures and data-sharing dominating the headlines. Yet despite high stakes and an apparently strong consensus on the need for change, the 2017 Alder / Third Sector cultural health survey reveals many organisations are still exposed to significant […]