The fundraising plan
A fundraising plan is a must to enable your organisation to have the confidence that it can generate income and run the services it provides.
In this recorded webinar, key points you need to consider when approaching and pitching to funders are explored. Layla Moosavi, DSC Associate trainer and fundraising expert, shares good practice for writing funding applications and takes you through practice exercises to help you get your pitch right. Looking at real funders criteria, including Benefact’s Movement for Good Awards, the webinar covers:
- How to define funder priorities
- Key information you need to collate for your proposals
- What is the difference between what trusts and foundations need and what corporate sponsors need in written applications
- What is a Case for Support and how do you use it in your proposals?
Webinar Companion Documents
Webinar speaker
Layla Moosavi, Directory of Social Change
With over 20 years fundraising and sponsorship experience in the charitable sector and the arts, Layla has success in fundraising for large and small organisations, as well as managing a number of Corporate Partnerships over the years. Her breadth of experience means she is a good place to understand other fundraisers’ contexts and support their fundraising development needs.
Charity fundraising webinars
The fundraising sources
Support from individuals, corporates and grant-making bodies are just three key areas to source income for your charity.
Your fundraising message in current times
Fundraising is ineffective when it’s a one-way process.
Going digital
Many charities are keen to tap into digital opportunities both to raise money but also to maintain relationships with donors.
Digital Fundraising; More questions than answers?
Watch our recorded Q&A digital fundraising webinar where your questions are answered by an expert panel.
Corporate Partnerships
Working with the Directory of Social Change we brought together an expert panel who shared their tips on all things corporate fundraising.
Managing fundraising events
Expert insights on what the cost-of-living crisis means for fundraising events.
Legacy Fundraising 101
Legacies (or gifts in Wills) are the fastest growing source of income for charities. In this recorded webinar, we attempt to simplify legacy fundraising and cover why legacy giving is growing, why people leave legacies and when and why people make a Will.
Social Media Fundraising
Over 4.7 billion people around the world use social media. It can be a fantastic way for charities to build their network, reach new audiences, share success stories and importantly, boost donations.
Cost of Living: Help and Hope
From increased demands on services to reduced donations, the current cost of living crisis is placing the charitable sector under significant pressure.
Fundraising is friend-raising: Donor care and stewardship
Effective donor care and stewardship underpin successful fundraising efforts and is all about building long term relationships.
Valuing volunteers
Volunteers are the life blood of the charitable sector. So how can we ensure we engage with and attract potential new volunteers, retain existing volunteers, and build volunteer advocacy?
Pitch-perfect funding applications
With increasing demand on funders, applications have become very competitive. To maximise your chances of success it’s vital that any application is as close to perfection as possible.
How to deliver successful fundraising challenge events
Events can provide a valuable source of funding. Join us for guidance on how to maximise income from your attendees and help your participants hit the ground running.. … or cycling, walking, skydiving, etc!
A practical introduction to social impact measurement
Being able to demonstrate the impact of your work can improve your chances of funding. Join us for this introductory session on social impact measurement and discover simple and practical steps to begin or improve your impact reporting journey.
Developing and nurturing high value relationships
Funding core costs: In principle and in practice
Writing Winning Fundraising Applications
In this workshop Layla Moosavi, Associate Trainer, Directory of Social Change, looks at how our approach to funding applications has changed within the shifting funding landscape and shares some top tips for writing winning applications. This session is a useful reminder for those who have some experience – successful or otherwise, as well as those at the starting line.
Writing Winning Fundraising Applications Questions and Answers
In this recording Layla Moosavi, Associate Trainer, Directory of Social Change and Chris Pitt, Impact Direct, Benefact group delve into the questions posed following our ‘Writing Winning Funding Applications’ webinar, providing further insight into what makes a winning funding application, how to make your application stand out and how to secure those all-important funds.
Digital Fundraising: Tools and Tactics
The developments in digital communications mean that digital fundraising is pretty much a must for all of us now.
Positive Teams: Recruitment, Retention and Wellbeing
Getting the right people and looking after them the right way means that staff stay with us, and stay happy with us. However, these things go beyond process, policies and procedures. They are about more than having written up documents on ‘things managers should do in the event of’. It is about our values and organisational culture, who we are being as managers and leaders, as well as what we are doing.