I'm an employee for a new charity based in the UK, and would like to ask for a little advice regarding fund raising. Our project is large in scale, and as such will require large amounts of funds from not just single people, but companies and corporations as a whole. We have physically visited our beneficiaries, but are finding it exceedingly difficult to raise any large amount of funds (our first goal requires in the region of £50k). We have been turned down for grants in the past, and have received few donations.

What options are open to us? We are proceeding with promotion of the charity in real-life with hand-outs, leaflets, interviews etc, and are actively applying for grants from foundations. I am thinking we may possibly need a profesional consultant to aid us in our efforts, however they are extremely expensive, given the very small amount of funds available to us.

Sorry to ramble, but we really are getting stuck.

Any advice you can provide would be greatly appreciated..I've been lurking here for a whole, and have noticed that your users are generally very helpful and polite to each other, which is very refreshing.