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DEVELOP Funding Information Pack - Includes a Fit for Funding checklist, an a-z of fundraising ideas, tips on how to fill in applications plus links, resources and articles on funding-related issues.    Click here to download.

 

Patrons, Presidents and Personalities - Step by step guide to choosing (and recruiting and managing) the right celebrity for your charity. Available from the Directory of Social Change for £18.95. Read more about how to choose the right celebrity for your charity.

Gift Aid Mentoring Forum - online network of professional fundraisers, knowledgeable about Gift Aid - www.giftaidhelp.org 

Guide to Applying to Charitable Trust or Foundation is produced by the Association of Charitable Foundations, is a useful, short factsheet on how to make applications to trust funds. Click here to download guide.

Mini Guide Introducing Funding and Finance
- Guides voluntary and community organisations through the basics of topics such as planning, financial management and sustainable funding. It is an ideal primer for very small and new Voluntary and Community Organisations, or for those new to these concepts. Copies can be ordered from NCVO publications by calling 0800 2798 798 or download free from the NCVO website.

Full Cost Recovery Toolkit from ACEVO - download toolkit here.

Social Networking & Fundraising: Tips and resources on how to use social networking sites for fundraising. Visit the NCVO website .

 

NCVO's Sustainable Funding Project offers a range of resources and advice to support groups to develop a sustainable funding mix. Visit the NCVO website for more information

Institute of Fundraising -Details of key policy issues relating to fundraising can be found at: http://www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/influence/keypolicyissues/ 

Making Giving Go-Further: The Definitive Guide to Tax-Effective Giving - Institute of Fundraising. There are now a range of tax-effective donation mechanisms that can boost your charity’s income and provide donors with very generous tax relief. The guide covers the main features of the tax incentives, highlighting how the incentives work, how to use them effectively and how to explain them to potential donors. For more information and to download the guide for free visit www.tax-effectivegiving.org.uk .

 

Coping With Cuts: Practical Advice Guides -

NCVO has a range of practical advice guides to help your organisation weather the tough financial climes. Visit the NCVO website


Latest Fundraising Codes: The Institute of Fundraising has reissued four of its codes of fundraising practice to bring them in line with changes in legislation.
 

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Data Protection.

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The Management of Static Collection Boxes.

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Telephone Fundraising.

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Raffles and Lotteries.

 

See the Institute of Fundraising website for the most recent fundraising codes.


Defending Local Grants - free guide from the Local Grants Forum to help voluntary groups keep their public sector funding. Provides advice to help groups negotiate with councillors, commissioners and procurement officers over funding for local communities. Download Defending Local Grants from NAVCA website.

Funders Footprints: Impressions from the Voluntary and Community Sector of funding and its delivery. Published by the South West Foundation, 2006. Looks at key issues in VCS funding from covering core costs to the effects of short term funding. Download Funders Footprints.

Charity Commission - Offers a range of useful publications on funding-related issues from Charities and Fundraising to Fundraising Through Partnerships with Companies. Visit the Charity Commission website to download.

 

View free podcasts by fundraising leaders from past conferences on the Institute of Fundraising website
 

 

 

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