Write for Nonprofit Voice
Free to contribute, if the piece is there to tell readers something rather than send them somewhere.
We publish work from the people running UK charities. What you tried, what happened, what you would do differently. If you have something worth other people’s time, we would like to read it.
What We Are Looking For
- An account of work your charity has done, including the parts that did not go to plan
- Practical guidance from experience: fundraising, governance, reporting, working with trustees
- A position on something in the sector, argued and supported
- What a volunteer or beneficiary programme looked like from the inside
The test is whether a reader finishes it knowing something they did not know before. A piece that describes what your organisation offers is promotion, and there is a paid route for that.
Free or Paid
Contributing is free
There is no fee if the article carries no promotion. That means no links to your own site, services or fundraising pages in the body, no product or brand mentions, and no call to action at the end. You get a byline, your role, your organisation and a one-line bio, which is where readers find out who you are.
Promotion is paid
If the piece exists to send readers somewhere, it is a sponsored placement. Campaigns, appeals, launches, service announcements, anything with a link to your own pages. It runs in the Sponsored Content category with an advertisement feature label above the headline, and its links are marked as paid.
If you are not sure which yours is, send it anyway, and we will tell you before you do any more work on it.
Submission Guidelines:
- Length: 750 to 1,500 words
- Original and not published anywhere else, including your own blog
- Subheadings and short paragraphs. A wall of text will be sent back
- Up to two external links, to primary sources rather than to your own pages
- Any statistic named and dated in the text, with the source linked
- Images you own or hold the rights to, with consent from anyone identifiable in them
- Your name, role, organisation and a one-line bio
Writing with AI
Drafting with an AI tool is fine. What we will not publish is something nobody has read properly before sending it.
You are responsible for every claim, figure, quote and source in the piece. AI tools invent all four convincingly, and a fabricated statistic under your name and your organisation’s name costs you more than it costs us. Check the facts against the original sources, rewrite it so it sounds like you, and send it when it does.
What Happens Next
Send the idea before the draft. A short paragraph on what you want to write and why is enough, and it saves you writing something we cannot use.
We edit for clarity, length and house style. Anything that changes your meaning goes back to you before publication. We check claims against sources and will ask for one if a figure has none. Pieces that do not fit are declined, and we will say why.
Your name, role and organisation appear at the top of the article, under the headline, so readers know who wrote it before they start.
What We Do Not Publish
- Gambling, adult content, payday lending, crypto or investment schemes
- Anything naming another charity negatively
- Claims about your impact that cannot be checked or attributed
- Pieces whose real purpose is the link
- Pressure framing around wills, bereavement or urgent appeals we have not verified
How to Submit
Email contact@evolvecatalyst.org with your idea in a paragraph or two. Include your name, your role and your charity, and tell us whether you think the piece is editorial or promotional. We will reply either way. If it is a fit, we will tell you what we need and by when.