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Trust Fundraisers London based can you help?
Submitted by lesley_jane on 2 July, 2008 - 13:55.
Hello
I wondered if any of you hard working Trust Fundraisers would consider meeting up to discuss how you go about raising funds from Trusts and what pitfalls you find? I'm a novice at Trust Fundraising so just wondered if you'd give me a few pointers and perhaps we could swop ideas?
Many thanks
Lesley
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Trust fundraising message group on Yahoo
Darn, knew I'd forgotten something - may also be worth signing up to Yahoo trust fundraising group (free) - prospect-research-uk group on yahoo.com
Sandre
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Thanks Sandre, I was about to chip in and mention that such a group exists both online and offline. The Trust and Statutory Funding special interest group of the Institute of Fundraising discusses issues online at
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/trust_fundraising/
There are currently 1570 members and they post from 78 to 180 messages per month (taking figures from this year so far). The online group began in November 2002.
They also meet regularly in person. Details from the Institute of Fundraising at
www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/groupsandnetworking/institutegroups/...
Oddly enough, on the forum page the Institute set up for the group, somewhat belatedly, there is no link to the Yahoo! group, even in the "related links" section of the page:
http://www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/groupsandnetworking/institute...
Thank you both
Thank you both that is helpful.
I joined the institute of fundraising/group/through Martin Davies this morning and this page because of his suggestion.
Sandre thanks for that insight, I haven't trawled through the achieves as yet, but I will now.
Kind regards
Lesley
New to trust fundraising
If you haven't trawled through the forum archives already, it's worth doing so - some of the experienced fundraisers on here have given excellent 'general' as well as specific responses to queries. Some of the less experienced fundraisers (like me) have other "added value" - my day job is on the other side of the table as a grants officer ;)
I would strongly recommend making a case to your management/trustees for investment in some training. *Particularly* if you are the first or only (trust) fundraiser in your organisation and even more particularly if you are new to the charity sector as a whole. Directory of Social Change courses are very popular and well-respected.
As for tips/tricks: much to the probable relief of regular readers, I'll be (relatively) brief in this response:
RTFM.
Or, less crudely put: reading and following the trust's own guidelines for application will put you in the top 50% of applications that that trust receives [1]. Guaranteed. Trust fundraising really isn't rocket science (our trustees are people too, not horrible monsters - that would be me, as grants officer).
Any other hints you want? Well, the forum tends to work best for specific rather than general questions and for some of those, it would be useful to get a bit of background on size of your organisation/beneficiaries.
If you get sufficient interest from other fundraisers and want to get people together, I'm based in London and would be happy to come and talk to a group about how trusts work/what we do/answer questions (hair-raising "This'll make you feel better because you'd *never* do that" stories included).
[1] NB - many trusts only report eligible applications - we do. If 2000 applications a year are reported, you can bet your bottom dollar that at least 4000 were received.
Sandre
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