Brain Tumour Charity
Spent some time at The Brain Tumour Charity talking about ways of growing their ecommerce business, testing customer responses, product development, platform comparison, and infrastructure improvements, and writing the business case with recommendations of how to evolved the business model into one that achieves the stated objectives.
Drops, the app that rounds up credit card purchases to donate to charity
Drops is an app that connects to your bank account and allows you to round up purchases and donate that amount to the charity of your choice. The service doesn’t charge a commission but allows you to ‘tip’ them.
It seems like a good idea but I think it’ll struggle to get adopted, even by good-hearted regular givers to charity, and struggle even more to maintain continued use. Charitable giving works best when there is an emotional reward, and an app that sells itself as donating the money you won’t notice has no way of providing that reward.
Appointed chair of the Finance and Audit Sub-committee of Bucks Mind
Appointed chair of the Finance and Audit Sub-committee of Bucks Mind
I suggested that I might not be the best person for the job but as I was the only one there, I accepted.