A look back at the year’s standout Charity Times long‑reads, from in‑depth profiles to thought‑provoking features that shaped the sector.
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Features

Cryptocurrency: What do charities need to know?
Cryptocurrency is increasingly becoming a buzzword, but there is a clear divide between charities that are embracing it and charities that don’t understand it. Here we outline everything you need to know.

Crisis point: How the funding crisis is taking its toll on mental health
A lack of available funding for small charities is causing significant financial burden, but the situation is taking the toll on small charity leaders’ mental health too.

Public perceptions: A double-edged sword
Charities rely on the public, but the public’s perception of the sector isn’t always rosy. But what does the public really think of the sector and what can charities learn from it?

Redundancies: Beyond the numbers
There is a tidal wave of redundancies happening across the charity sector, but the human impact is beginning to take its toll.

Collaboration: Stronger together
As funding challenges increase and demand grows, charities are turning to each other and proving that collaboration isn’t just possible, it’s powerful.

Profiles

How Caron Bradshaw leads with humanity
The former Charity Finance Group CEO argues that love, empathy and shared leadership are not soft ideals but hard strategies for survival, and that the sector’s next chapter depends on them.

How Mark Rowland is shaking up the sector
The CEO of the Mental Health Foundation Mark Rowland wants the charity world to be braver, faster, and more collaborative—and he’s starting with his own organisation.

CJ Bowry: It starts with shoes
When she sent her son’s shoes to Africa, CJ Bowry didn’t intend to lead a quickly-growing charity, but here she is; thriving and at the helm of a quickly expanding charity, as Melissa Moody finds out.

Donna-Marie Edmonds
Mere weeks after starting in her role, Donna-Marie Edmonds sat down to talk with Melissa Moody about her new job as CEO of The Clink Charity.

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