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When the demand for your charity’s services is growing, it is tempting to set ambitious goals for growth without always doing the reality check first of whether they are achievable or not.

In fundraising, we know “people give to people” and that developing strong contact networks is key to building future income.

So often we hear complaints about fundraising databases, that they will not do what fundraisers need and that fundraising is being hampered as a result. It’s easy to blame the database...

Benchmarking your charity’s fundraising performance against peer organisations can tell you a lot about how you (and your competitors) are doing...

In any fundraising operation, there will be a number of key constraints, in other words, things that hold you back from achieving more. These are one of the things we look for...

As we start to look beyond Covid-19 and plan for life in the new normal (whatever that will be), a lot of charities will be rethinking what their fundraising team should look like...

According to recent research by Legacy Foresight, the UK legacy market was worth £3.4 billion in 2019 and is set to grow by 37% at current prices over the next ten years, to reach £4.7 billion by 2029.

In these challenging times, it is easy to be distracted by the by the disruption to fundraising that has impacted most charities....

The influence of organisational culture on fundraising is an issue rarely discussed in our sector but in these challenging time may make the difference between success and failure.