Britain faces challenges that weren't imaginable thirty years ago, challenges which charities, rooted as they are in community action and the public good, should be ideally suited to tackle. But the charity sector seems paralysed. Even after a decade of cuts and immense social and environmental disruption charities are still fighting hard to maintain business as usual. To develop new responses to our changing world the charity sector desperately needs to reinvent itself, radically re-engaging with communities and developing powerful and scalable responses to the challenges facing the UK in the coming decades. What are the ties that bind charities, rendering them unable to re-invent themselves and to re-imagine their services, even when they face existential crises? This book explores how charities in the UK really operate, as seen through the eyes of people who work in and with charities, and investigates what holds charities back from change. It demonstrates what we can learn from entrepreneurship and market disruption in the private sector, and points to ways in which the sector can re-imagine what it does and how it does this. It presents a new ambition for charities to break free of their history and imagine a new role for themselves in shaping the future for our society. Presenting a new ambition for charities to imagine a new role for themselves in shaping the future for our society, this volume is especially valuable for academics and professionals in the fields of charity and non-profit management, organisational change, and strategic management.

Britain faces challenges that weren't imaginable thirty years ago, challenges which charities, rooted as they are in community action and the public good, should be ideally suited to tackle. But the charity sector seems paralysed. Even after a decade of cuts and immense social and environmental disruption charities are still fighting hard to maintain business as usual. To develop new responses to our changing world the charity sector desperately needs to reinvent itself, radically re-engaging with communities and developing powerful and scalable responses to the challenges facing the UK in the coming decades. What are the ties that bind charities, rendering them unable to re-invent themselves and to re-imagine their services, even when they face existential crises? This book explores how charities in the UK really operate, as seen through the eyes of people who work in and with charities, and investigates what holds charities back from change. It demonstrates what we can learn from entrepreneurship and market disruption in the private sector, and points to ways in which the sector can re-imagine what it does and how it does this. It presents a new ambition for charities to break free of their history and imagine a new role for themselves in shaping the future for our society. Presenting a new ambition for charities to imagine a new role for themselves in shaping the future for our society, this volume is especially valuable for academics and professionals in the fields of charity and non-profit management, organisational change, and strategic management.

Sarah is a smart, talented, and very cheerful young lady. Shortly after birth, she was whisked away from a very strange and mysterious village by her mother. Sarah moves into a more normal life with her mother in a big city, but her mother quickly discovers that Sarah is more than meets the eye. Sarah starts to excel in her classes quite rapidly and begins competing in scientific contests, racking up a nice bank account.

After graduating from high school, Abby, Sarah's mother, decides to enroll her in a university not too far from the city they live in. It's Sarah's first real time away from home, but she fits in rather nicely with her roommates, shy and quiet Zammie along with energetic and vocal Katie. They attend classes together, hang out together, and even compete in contests together, all while completing degrees and pursuing what each of them love doing. At one point, they break off and do something completely crazy; they combine their funds and build a mansion to live in

All is well until Sarah's mother decides to tell Sarah about her past and the village she came from. This casts a dark shadow over Sarah as she ponders how she might find out more about the current state of the village. But the health of her mother and the graduate studies of her two good friends keeps Sarah from venturing anywhere near the old village until years later.

Sarah finds the village deserted, so she decides to pen down the words that her mother had told her about the place, when the place suddenly lights up around her. Some old residents have come back to build something fantastic in place of the old village. Sarah, desirous to see their plans come to an unsuccessful end, puts herself into their confidence and agrees to assist them when asked.

Come on a fun, mysterious and whirlwind adventure as Sarah slowly discovers what they are up to. What does she do when something goes wrong? Can Sarah escape her own lottery?