Capital Appeal

This may belong in the “is it just us” file but in the past few weeks I have noticed that last years reluctance by trustees to press the “go” button on capital appeals has been replaced by the

Last week I attended IFC's First Friday Fundraising sessions and was interested to note that the same questions seemed to be coming from a wide range of organisations.

I have read a few articles recently about the plans of Brian Burnie to sell his hotel (Doxford Hall Hotel in Alnwick), and use the proceeds to establish a grant-making trust to donate money to local c

John Baguley's blog post this week about Kate Winslet's approach to 'sincere thanks' made me cringe.  Not at John's thoughts, (which were interesting as ever), but at the difference between Kate's various 'thank yous' over the last couple of weeks.

Exploring Slideshare.net I've come across quite a few fundraising-related slideshows that have impressed me. Here are just some of them.

I read in Charity News Alert with dismay that “Crisis has dropped plans to build a £60m urban village for former homeless people in East London after lawyers advised that an appeal against an earli