Fundraising
Useful guides and tools for charity fundraising.
Top tips for writing a successful tender bid
Watch the webinar and download the factsheet for essential tips and guidance for writing a winning tender.
Download our Top 10 Tips for Tendering Factsheet
Investability - why should people invest time or money in your charity?
This webinar explains ‘Investability’ and why it goes way beyond a funding strategy. Packed with practical insights and ‘how to’ steps, learn how to put your charity at the front of this ground-breaking change and discover how to create unbeatable ways of attracting interest, investment, and impact for your charity.
Download the Investability Presentation Slides PDF
Making your case for unrestricted funding: Advice for charities
We've worked with IVAR to create a concise guide to help charities build a stronger case for unrestricted funding.
Read and download the guide to making your case for unrestricted funding
Essential fundraising questions for charity leaders
Is your charity's fundraising engine misfiring? Take a look at the questions you should be asking.
6 top tips to improve your charity's fundraising
Fundraising is critical to your charity and needs to be a priority. In this blog and infographic, Cranfield Trust volunteer and fundraising specialist, Andrew Barton, shares his top 6 tips to improve your charity's fundraising efforts.
Charity Excellence Funding Finder
A free and easy to use tool to help you improve fundraising effectiveness and find more funders. You can also health check your fundraising in just 30 mins.
Institute of Fundraising
Visit the Institute of Fundraising (IoF), the professional membership body for UK fundraisers, for guidance on best practice, training and networking.
Fundraising Regulator
Register your charity with the Fundraising Regulator, the independent regulator of charitable fundraising standards and follow the Fundraising Code of Practice.
Good Fundraising Guide
A comprehensive guide to all aspects of fundraising from the Institute of Fundraising.
Guide to cross border fundraising
A best practice guide for charities conducting and coordinating fundraising activity across more than one nation
Guide to Grants and Contracts
A guide on the legal, VAT and accounting implications of grants and third party contracts
Get Grants
The Grant Fundraising e-newsletter provides interested organisations and groups with regular information related to grant fundraising.
Acceptance, Refusal & Return: A Practical Guide to dealing with donations
Straightforward advice from the Institute of Fundraising on dealing with donations.
Gift Aid
All you need to know about Gift Aid for charities.
Gift Aid for charities (Sayer Vincent)
Fundraising advice
For general, free, and low cost fundraising training and advice from grant funding experts.
Four steps for successful fundraising
Whether you are a volunteer, charity CEO, or seasoned professional fundraiser, Benefact Group hope their resources will help make your charity’s strategy simpler and more successful.
Fundraising and campaign platform for small charities
InvestMyCommunity offer a fundraising and campaign platform for small charities, providing various other services on a sliding fee scale, including assistance with Gift Aid claims.
Social investment
At this time of financial uncertainty, charities that are facing more competition for funding, and reduced access to funding opportunities, are diversifying income streams and considering a variety of financing options to help ensure their organisation’s sustainability.
In this article, Suzanne Waggett, Chief Investment Officer at Fredericks Foundation shares an insight into social investing and why charities might consider social investment. Fredericks Foundation offers expert advice and flexible finance to social enterprises and charities, helping them to realise their full potential and scale.
