Opinion: Does a smug culture put people off our sector?

By Julia Neuberger, Third Sector, 11 April 2007

Last weekend, Bel Mooney was half-seriously bemoaning the fact that she had got involved with a fundraising campaign for the neonatal unit at Bath Royal United Hospital after being struck by how inadequate conditions are there, even though she'd just finished raising money for a different cause (The Times Magazine, 31 March).

I was particularly struck by this because I had just spent time with two friends - quite separately - with whom I had similar conversations. Less than six months before, each of them had successfully completed fundraising campaigns for good causes with a heartfelt cry of "never again". Soon enough,...

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