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Reflections on the Karuna Telephone Campaign

It was hard to explain to my friends what I was doing for six weeks. I flippantly described my volunteer work at Karuna as a mixture of meditation, group therapy and telesales. Whilst this depiction clearly undersold my experience, on the surface the job did primarily involve calling up Karuna supporters and asking them to …

Volunteer fundraising for Karuna in the 6th Most Generous Country in the World.

Last week, on the first day of May, it was a pleasant Spring evening in West London. Mike, our volunteer fundraiser, was already on the residential street he was to fundraise on, when I met him at 6.30pm. As Head of Fundraising at Karuna, going out “on the doors’ with our volunteer fundraisers, gives me …