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Yesterday, more than 300 delegates representing nearly 100 Scottish charities converged on the Hilton Glasgow for the 19th Institute of Fundraising (Scotland) Conference.

Allowing up to 50% of visitors to leave your web pages less than 10 seconds of arriving is an enormous waste of your fundraising effort.

There's been such a lot in the media about Big Society but at easyfundraising the causes we work with have been putting the ideas behind David Cameron's

The recent debates on ‘US style philanthropy’ are perhaps naturally revolving around the big donors and the big cultural institutions (all of whom tend to be London based) but what about smaller or

New Gift Aid was introduced by the then Chancellor, Gordon Brown, as part of his ‘Get Britain Giving ‘campaign.

I’ve just come to the end of the first piece of research that I’ve been working on as part of my involvement in the new ESRC Centre for Giving and Philanthropy (CGAP), and launched the final report, <

On the sidelines of the world cup games, some smaller games are being played for very noble ambitions.

Never knowingly underdone, the build up to the 2010 World Cup seems to have gone on forever in England.

Alyas Khan, CEO of FundraisingExperts.co.uk and Emica Consulting shares his top 10 tips for increasing funding success when preparing funding bids.

1. Follow the funders criteria:

The Google Grant is a free search advertising programme that affords charities and non-profits nearly $10000/month in Google Adwords budget (that’s £6,588 a month at today’s rate).