26. Stevie Nicholson – Helping colleagues stay inspired and learning during lockdown

There are many factors that make it hard for your team to keep positive and proactive at the moment. In many charities, being separated geographically from colleagues for such a long time is having a serious effect on morale, confidence and problem solving. In this episode of the Fundraising Bright Spots podcast, I was delighted to talk to Stevie Nicholson, an Area Fundraising Manager at Diabetes UK. Stevie and her colleagues saw how crucial it was to regularly connect with and help colleagues across her fundraising department throughout the UK at the moment, and they’ve found a way to help them stay inspired by good ideas in spite of the lockdown. In this interview Stevie explains how the initiative came about, why she feels it has picked up such momentum, and for anyone who is thinking of implementing something similar, four tips to help you make it work in practice. If you’d like more powerful strategies to help you raise funds during the pandemic, then do check out my new free E-book: Power Through The Pandemic – Seven ways to raise high value income, even now. You can download it for FREE here: brightspotfundraising.co.uk/power If you found Episode 26 helpful, please do subscribe today, so you won’t miss out on all the other episodes we’ve got lined up; and also, I’d be really grateful if you could take a moment to leave a review or share it on with your colleagues or on social media. Thank you very much. If you want to get in touch, Stevie and I would love to hear from you – we’re both on Linked In, and I’m on twitter at @woods_rob.