What is your charity’s TVM?

So, this morning I happened to be standing in front of my local station for a few hours, volunteering. There's a bit of building work going on in the forecourt, and on the fence right where I was standing I could see this sign: TVM ClosedPlease use other TVM's inside Now, as I say, I was standing there for quite a while, and it took me over an hour to work out what the acronym TVM stood for. Have you guessed it? I bet you haven't ... After thinking about it for quite a while, I'm pretty sure it stands for ... Ticket Vending Machine! In that time, hundreds of passengers entered the station, even in these Covid times, and I am willing to place a very large bet that not one of them understood that acronym. Which is a real shame, because the sign must have clearly been for their information. And I can see how it happened, because I see it happening in charities all the time. TVM is clearly a term used so frequently by the station staff that when one of them was asked to knock up a quick sign, they must have assumed that it would be understood by anyone else. We all do this in our daily jobs, don't we? I remember working in one place, where the Chief Executive used to joke about employees taking the TLA quiz. Neat joke, because TLA itself was an acronym for Three Letter Acronym! Does your charity work in IAG? Thinking about how you can tie in on CSR? Teaming up with your nearest CVS, are you? And I'm aware of the irony that my most recent blog was entirely