Why fundraising feels worse than it used to

Betwixmas reflections on how trend-chasing, short-term approval and moral signalling have combined to undermine a craft built on trust and long-term value

Regular readers here, and those of you who’ve come across from my old Queerideas blog, will know that I keep returning to the same question. Why, once inflation is taken into account, are we now raising billions of pounds less than we were ten or fifteen years ago?

One of my Christmas gifts this year brought that question back into focus. It was a copy o…