This coming Thursday is the next NFPtweetup, taking place at JustGiving’s new offices. As part of a blog series leading up to the event, I was asked to share some thoughts on the event, especially for those coming along for the first time that may not know what to expect.

We had a fantastic 6th NFPtweetup at Breast Cancer Care last Thursday (check our posterous for the briefest summary). So, before the night’s memories and #NFPtweetup mentions fade, I thought I’d try to capture the essence of it here.

I was lucky enough to grab some rare time with Rebekah to catch up over a sushi dinner recently (sadly no ikura – one of our joint favourite things – but otherwise very good indeed).

Dear next beautiful intern,

Since today’s my last day at Beautiful World and you have yet to start work, this letter is the best way I could think of to do some kind of a handover to you.

I won’t be going through all the ins and outs of working here.

29th July 2009 Sarah Vickery from RSPCA came for a working lunch and to doodle on the beautiful pouffe. Sarah’s beautiful world is, “sunshine, blueberries and pouilly fume in abundance at all times”.

28th July 2009 Henry Rowling and Sabrina Qua from Scope came for an hour on the beautiful sofa to talk about all sorts of things to do with fundraising and communications. Henry’s beautiful world has, “no politicians and no economic or social hierarchies. Either that or Arsenal winning the league every year”. Sabrina’s idea of [...]

30th June 2009 John Carnell from Bullying UK stopped by on the beautiful sofa to doodle on the beautiful pouffe. John is also the first one to stick a badge on the pouffe – we sense more badges to come. John’s beautiful world is, “one where there is no bullying”.

19th June 2009 Joe Freeman and Maeve Clarke from Diabetes UK graced our beautiful sofa and doodled on the beautiful pouffe. Joe’s official version of a beautiful world is, “one where everyone leaves a gift to charity in their will.”  (His unofficial version involves being King, with plenty of sunshine, cold beer, sandwiches, cyclists who [...]

18th June 2009 Shormeh, Andrea and Debbie from Centrepoint came in for an hour on the beautiful sofa to talk about data and social media.  In return we got a beautifully drawn butterfly from Shormeh.  It really is splendid.