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.
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.
But knowing where to start can be tricky – here are so many platforms out there with ever changing trends and developments. Our webinar is here to help you better understand the opportunities social media fundraising presents and give you some simple steps to take to get started.
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Webinar Speaker
Nick Day, Associate Trainer at Directory of Social Change
Nick’s 30 years in marketing began in advertising, developed through direct marketing and now focuses on maximising the many opportunities presented by digital.
As well as being a practitioner, Nick leads a variety of training. He has delivered in-house training for commercial and charitable organisations including Sony, British Airways, Royal Mail, Parkinson’s UK, Age UK and Amnesty International.
Alongside Nick, Digital experts Paul Tyler and Bec Simpson from the Benefact Group share their expertise on social media.
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.
Funding Applications: A Practical Guide
Expert insights on increasing your chances of grant application success.
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.
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.
How to ensure you are set up for fundraising success
DSC Associate Richard Sved, co-author of Fundraising Strategy and author of Charity Fundraising Templates brings his usual mix of inspiration, passion, and practical examples to this important topic. He brings with him the experience of leading fundraising teams at over ten national charities, and advising dozens of others, so get ready for a fast-paced session packed with detail.
FundrAIsing: How to improve fundraising opportunities with AI
AI continues to be a hot topic. In this session we will explore the potential opportunities and challenges that rapidly developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology will bring for charities. We will look at how AI is already being used to help deliver charitable social missions in innovative new ways, and how the technology might radically alter the operating environment for charities in the future, by creating both new ways of working as well as new practical and ethical challenges.