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Top community fundraising tips from the experts
Sep 17, 2024 · For this month’s community fundraising focus, we asked experts at 10 charities to share their top tips. Focusing on providing a great supporter experience came top, with other great tips including helping groups tap into their own networks when seeking support, regularly catching up with supporters, and building their connection to the cause.
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Fundraising and giving platforms for charities
Oct 15, 2021 · About Howard Lake Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
2025 National Fundraising Awards now open for nominations
Nov 7, 2024 · The Chartered Institute of Fundraising has opened nominations for the 2025 National Fundraising Awards, with 12 categories, and free entry. Nominations close at 23.59 on Wednesday 22 January and charities of all sizes in the UK can enter.
A plethora of recent fundraising platform launches
Oct 13, 2021 · Givematch. Givematch launched earlier this year to make match funding more fun, and social media friendly. Givematch donors have donations matched based on their referrals, so donors share their favourite campaigns with their friends through a personal link, and when two of their friends donate through it, they have their original donation matched.
Mass participation events 'back on track' but majority seek out …
3 days ago · Most popular are running events, which had a very positive year in 2024 with 79% of respondents taking part in them. Overall, the average number of events people reported participating was five, and looking ahead, massive found that 32% of respondents expect to increase the number of events they plan to take part in this year.
National Lottery Community Fund to share key learnings from …
8 hours ago · Guidance for using AI in funding applications. National Lottery Community Fund has also published guidance on using AI for funding applications.In this guidance, the National Lottery Community Fund says that AI can be useful tool, particularly as a starting point with funding applications, and offers tips for using it well, and for ensuring applications meet the Fund’s criteria.
10 snippets of fundraising event news
2024 Tour de Law raises Over £121k for Breast Cancer Now. Over £152,000 has been raised for breast cancer research and care with 15,327 kilometres cycled in this year’s Breast Cancer Now Tour de Law , described as the largest sporting event in the legal calendar. This year saw sporting icon and barrister Wayne Barnes leading his Rugby …
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