ActionAid explains how they set out to change the focus of their programmes to women and girls and to more complex, longer-term, systemic and strategic work, without losing major donors. How did they accomplish this? By allowing their donors to contribute to their strategy.

Islamic Relief UK’s Deputy Director of Fundraising, Tufail Hussain explains his unique WhatsApp fundraising strategy, which involves him exposing himself to the work of his charity in a way that lets him authentically communicate about it to donors.

On Monday 12th March, I.G. Advisors held a Major Gifts Surgery in partnership with the Hospital Club Foundation. A challenge we regularly see at I.G. is there are more major gifts fundraising roles in this sector than there are major gifts fundraisers. So, we hosted this Surgery as an opportunity to answer questions candidly, and provide insights to help the sector kick it up a notch.

This week on our podcast What Donors Want, we’re thrilled to have Comic Relief’s Head of Funding Partnerships, Adam Askew, to give us exclusive insight into Comic Relief’s decision-making processes, as well as excellent fundraising advice.

In the UK charity sector where 65% of staff and 70% of fundraisers are women, you would hope that feminism would be intrinsic to our work and decreasingly necessary. But unfortunately, this is far from the case.

The idea I presented at SOFII’s I Wish I’d Thought of That (IWITOT), took place in the mid-1980s. For wildly different reasons, two groups — the LGBT community and families of striking miners — were being similarly ostracised, demonised by the media, and facing police brutality. Out of these two bleak and painful circumstances rose a brilliant idea: Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners.

A well-functioning major donor programme can provide a powerful return on investment for charities of every size. However, before starting your major donor fundraising adventure, there are some key issues you need to consider.

The fourth episode of What Donors Want is out featuring philanthropist, Nick Jenkins, founder of Moonpig and former Dragons’ Den judge.

Securing a major gift fundamentally comes down to relationship building — but if you don’t have the writing to back this up, you remain at the bottom of the pile.

Fundraisers — get your red noses out! What Donors Want is back with a third episode featuring Adam Askew from Comic Relief.

Philanthropists have donated £15bn to charitable causes over the past decade, providing a lifeline as public funding decreases, and the future of EU funding hangs in the balance. How can British charities capitalise on donors’ growing philanthropic intentions?

It’s undeniable that we have a shortage of experienced high value fundraisers in the UK. Junior fundraisers are the ones with the potential to fill the gaps, but aren’t being given the support to gain the right knowledge, skills or experience.