Dyslexia Action is a national charity taking action to improve lives through education - removing barriers to learning, employment and fulfilment for people with dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties. Read full article...
17May2013
15May2013
A relational approach to improving supporter retention
With the cost of acquiring new donors rising, pushing the break-even point on donor acquisition back, you’d think charities would be making an extra effort on retention. Read full article...
13May2013
22Oct2012
Small local charities - making expert input affordable - Camden ‘training plus’
It’s not just big charities with complex operations that need professional fundraising advice and services. But small charities often can’t afford to get expert help.
Or can they? Charities often form consortia to bid for contracts and funding, so why not come together to commission expert input into fundraising strategy, funding research, bid writing or digital fundraising for instance?
The London Borough of Camden recently commissioned us to provide a package of training and ongoing advice and support to charities providing social care to older people and running good neighbour schemes in the borough.
Fifteen organisations are benefiting from an intensive customised workshop, tailored follow-up support and ongoing professional advice - or ‘training plus’ as we call it - training, plus consultancy.
The challenge with using training alone to meet learning needs is (at least!) twofold: Read full article...
22Oct2012
24May2012
Top 3 Fundraising Stories of the day
For a change today, we checked out some of the latest fundraising news stories and have brought you three of the most interesting.
Thirdsector.co.uk reported that the government have decided to bin traditional CRB checks and give employees and volunteers the option of a single ‘portable’ criminal records check. This means charities won’t have to keep paying out for new CRBs, but will just have to check that no new information has been recorded since the certificate was issued.
Big congratulations this week for the National Lottery whose results for 2011/12 show that it gave £1.8bn, £160m more than in 2011/12, and it hit its target of £750m for the Olympics.
UK fundraising has been trying to get people involved with the jubilee campaign. The campaign asks everyone to donate one hour of their time to a good cause in celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The campaign is open to individuals, businesses, clubs, charities and other organisations. People can join in as an individual, family, community, company or other group and are asked to create their own web page to let people know what they are doing to help. Read full article...