Pooka & Co

15/09/2026

Organise your website content with WordPress Custom Post Types!

08/09/2026

For Remember A Charity Week, our latest blog post focuses on:

- The importance of Legacies to Charities
- The long term Supporter Journey
- Why CRM should underpin Data-Driven Fundraising

https://www.pooka.co/remember-a-charity-week-building-the-supporter-journey/

Legacy giving is an important source of income for UK charities, but legacy gifts rarely happen in isolation. Discover how supporter journeys, good stewardship and CiviCRM can help charities build the long-term relationships that lead to successful legacy fundraising.

07/09/2026

🐰 A little database housekeeping can make a BIG difference.

Duplicate contacts are one of those things that can quietly creep into a CRM over time. And before you know it, you're wondering which record is right, whether someone has received something twice and just how many versions of the same person are hiding in there. 👀

At our next CiviCRM Scotland Meetup, Aidan Saunders from Squiffle Consulting is taking us through Dedupe Rules and Contact Merging — two of the fundamentals for keeping your CiviCRM data clean, accurate and genuinely useful.

And this one's open to everyone. ❤️

📅 Thursday 10 September
⏰ 3–4pm
📍 Melting Pot, Edinburgh
💻 Or join us online
🎟️ Free

There’ll also be plenty of opportunity to chat with other CiviCRM users and ask questions.

And if you join us in Edinburgh, there will, naturally, be tea and biscuits. We have standards. 🍪

Book your free place: https://civicrm.org/blog/marcusjwilson/civicrm-scotland-meetup-thursday-10-september-2026

01/09/2026

Human In The Loop:

https://www.pooka.co/pookas-approach-to-ai/

31/08/2026

We’ve spent a lot of time talking, testing and thinking about AI; including where it’s genuinely useful and where we’d rather keep things human.

We feel like we’re finally ready to share where we stand.

AI can absolutely be part of our process. But judgement, expertise and responsibility stay with people.

We’ve written a bit more about what that looks like in practice 👇 https://www.pooka.co/pookas-approach-to-ai/

25/08/2026

You do amazing work! Stay in people’s minds! Post regularly!

24/08/2026

Last month, AI helped a security researcher uncover WP2Shell, a potentially serious WordPress vulnerability.

Sounds scary. But the response actually tells us quite a lot about why we continue to trust WordPress and why keeping your website properly maintained matters.

We’ve unpacked what happened, what AI changes and why good website security is about much more than somewhere to host your site.

Have a read 🐰👇
https://www.pooka.co/ai-wordpress-security-vulnerability/

21/08/2026

Modern WordPress has come a LONG way and accessibility is one of the reasons we continue to love working with it. 🐰

Its Core blocks and Block Editor give us some great foundations for creating accessible websites. But WordPress can't do everything for us.

Good accessibility still needs thoughtful design, sensible development and people making good choices when they add content.

Our latest Digital Dispatch looks at what modern WordPress does well, what still sits with us as developers, and how we try to make the accessible choice the easy choice for our clients.

Have a read 👉 https://www.pooka.co/wordpress-accessibility-how-to-build-more-accessible-websites/

18/08/2026

Great to catch up on the https://faodailfilm.scot/ with Andy Mackinnon yesterday. Nothing like the Edinburgh Festivals to bring people together!

13/08/2026

The latest SCVO newsletter landed in Sian's inbox with a whole programme of fundraising workshops, and it got us thinking. 💭

Why do we recommend CiviCRM to so many of the organisations we work with?

We already know it's great for managing your:

🥕 Relationships
🥕 Communications
🥕 Events
🥕 Memberships
🥕 Finances

But it can also bring the important bits of fundraising into the same picture.

Donors. Giving histories. Regular contributions. Gift Aid. Campaigns. Funders. Applications. Reporting.

All connected to the people and relationships already in your CRM.

And crucially, without having to rely on yet another system.

Our latest Digital Dispatch looks at CiviCRM for fundraising, donor management and reporting, and why better fundraising starts with understanding relationships, not just transactions.

🔗 Read Better Fundraising with CiviCRM: https://www.pooka.co/civicrm-for-charities-fundraising-donor-management-and-reporting/

CiviCRM helps charities manage fundraising, donors, donations, Gift Aid and reporting while building stronger supporter relationships.