What you're really seeing when you're seeing a charity respond to that 'small step in the right direction but ultimately just not good enough' policy announcement. You're seeing the fine balance bet…
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Tom Madders
LinkedIn Content Strategy & Writing Style
Campaigns and Communications Consultant
United Kingdom
246 Viral ScoreView on LinkedIn
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Performance Overview
Followers
4.9K
Connections
4.5K
Avg. Engagement
Top Posts by Engagement
View on LinkedIn
Posting Patterns & Frequency
2.5 posts/week
Posts / Week
3.5 days
Days Between Posts
1
Total Posts Analyzed
MEDIUM
Posting Frequency
Timezone: Europe/London
Best Performing Days
Monday
Best Performing Times To Post
07:30-09:00
Topics & Content Focus
Primary Topics
High-stakes charity campaigning strategy (balancing pressure from ministers, media, supporters, and internal stakeholders)Nonprofit messaging and communications consulting (workshops, comms planning, narrative positioning)Values-led advocacy and public affairs in UK civil society (rights-based campaigning, policy mobilisation)Coalition campaigning operations (how partnerships work, how to hire for impact inside coalitions)Tech skepticism as ethics signaling (anti-GenAI stance used as identity/values marker rather than tooling advice)
Secondary Themes
Emotional labor and resilience in frontline-adjacent charity workMedia quote negotiation and reputational risk managementMaintaining trust/access while applying public pressure to decision-makersCommunity mobilization CTAs (email MPs, share roles)Client pride/endorsement as credibility-building
Industry Focus
UK charity / nonprofit sectorCharity campaigning, public affairs, and policy influenceNonprofit communications, messaging, and engagementHuman rights / disability / refugee support / LGBTQ+ advocacy
Content Categories
Behind-the-scenes campaign strategy teardownPractitioner reflection (emotional reality of the sector)Advocacy/action alert (policy intervention CTA)Opportunity amplification (hiring + coalition roles)Contrarian micro-post (provocation/values stance)
Performance Insights
112.8%
Avg Engagement Rate
STABLE
Performance Trend
Best Performing Topics
High-stakes charity campaigning strategy (balancing multiple stakeholder incentives at speed)Practitioner-grade comms/policy realism (inside-baseball dynamics explained plainly)
Virality Signals
Shareable explanatory framework that makes complex comms politics legibleHigh-density stakeholder map (ministers/media/supporters/civil servants/funders) increases 'send to colleague' valueUtility posts (job amplification) prompt resharingValues/polarization hooks (rights advocacy, anti-GenAI stance) create identity-based engagement
Structure & Quality
200
Avg Length (Words)
HIGH
Depth Level
ADVANCED
Expertise Level
0.81/10
Uniqueness Score
Common Hooks
Behind-the-scenes reframing hook ("what you're really seeing...")Disarming humility/understatement before a heavy reflectionDirect imperative activism hook (command + hashtag)Credibility-by-association hook (named organisations/people as social proof)
Common Endings
Soft close with reflection rather than a takeaway ("no deep insight... just a salute")Direct action CTA (email MP / share widely)Minimalist punchline ending (single-line slogan/hashtag)
Value Delivery Methods
Turns opaque charity/public affairs tradeoffs into plain-language mental modelsProvides field validation (naming the emotional weight and professionalism required)Offers practical distribution value (roles to share; actions to take)Builds credibility through specific lived consulting context (real meetings, real clients, real constraints)
Formatting Style
Short paragraphs with deliberate whitespace for readabilityAnaphora/parallel structure lists (repeated sentence openings)Selective quoting/letter excerpts to borrow authorityName-checking/tagging as network weavingOccasional hashtag-as-banner
Audience & Tone
NO
Question Usage
0.3%
Response Rate
Detected Tone
Smart-casual practitioner-expertValues-forward and justice-alignedBehind-the-curtain strategist (translating power dynamics without sounding academic)Emotionally literate realism (empathetic but unsentimental)semi-formalfirst-person
Interaction Style
Peer-to-peer practitioner talk (assumes familiarity with campaigning/comms constraints)Low-question, statement-led teaching (audience nods/shares rather than debates)Community signaling (public solidarity with orgs/causes; network reinforcement)
Community Building Signals
Publicly elevates organisations and individuals (client pride, name-checks)Creates in-group language for charity comms/policy professionals (shared dilemmas, shared constraints)Uses action prompts that let the audience participate (email MP, share roles)
Writing Style Patterns
Content Strategy
Hook: Behind-the-scenes reframing hook ("what you're really seeingTone: semi-formalCTA: Mobilise politically (contact representatives; ali
Writing style breakdown
<start of post>
I spent yesterday afternoon talking to a group of charity communications leads about the 'invisible' side of their jobs.
We talked about the hours spent on the phone to journalists trying to kill a story that would hurt their beneficiaries. We talked about the internal battles to stop a CEO from using a word that sounds great in a boardroom but feels like a slap in the face to a service user. We talked about the emotional weight of holding a survivor's story in your hands and trying to figure out how to tell it without breaking it.
It is the kind of work that never makes it into a 'Year in Review' report. It doesn't have a metric. You can't put 'prevented 400 people from feeling alienated' on a spreadsheet.
But that's the work. That is the actual, beating heart of what it means to do comms in this sector. It's not about the 'reach' or the 'engagement'—it's about the stewardship of human experience.
It takes a specific kind of grit to keep doing that day after day, especially when the world feels particularly heavy.
No big takeaway today. Just a bit of a nod to the people doing the quiet, difficult, invisible work that keeps the wheels turning. I see you.
<end of post>
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