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24th Jul 2008
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News

Harrogate Alcohol and Drugs Agency
Charity Fundraising Ltd appointed as consultants to HADA
£75,000 Grant
Major grant for Sussex Autistic Society
€2,550,000 Funding
Block funding achieved for cbm Ireland
£37,940 Grant Funding
Another BBC Children in Need success from Charity Fundraising Ltd
£47,286 Grant Funding
More success from our fundraising consultants
£75,000 Grant Funding
Our consultants are delighted to have achieved this grant for The Core Trust.
Dame Hannah Rogers Trust
Charity Fundraising Ltd is delighted to welcome Dame Hannah Rogers Trust as a new client.
Sussex Autistic Society
Charity Fundraising are delighted to welcome Sussex Autistic Society as a new client
New Fundraising Training Workshop
Our new look Finding Funding training workshop will be launched in Ipswich on 21st May 2008
Charity Fundraising Ltd: Professional Memberships
Charity Fundraising has now been accepted as a Corporate Member of the Institute of Fundraising and are included in the NCVO list of Approved Consultants for 2008.

Charity Fundraising Ltd. Consultancy Services

We offer a comprehensive package of fundraising consultancy services tailored to your needs. Our rates are very competitive and we always aim to provide good value for money. Most of our clients regard our work as a wise investment in the future of their organisation.


Charity Fundraising Ltd have worked with a wide range of charities, large and small. We can advise and support you in any or every aspect of running and managing your charity on a daily basis. Our fundraising consultants have helped small charities grow into large organisations and more effective service providers. We have also helped founders of charities to register with the Charity Commission and develop organisational structures, procedures and strategies.

Call us to discuss your needs on 01394 610581 or send an email to _enq@charity-fundraising.org.uk_.


Bid Review Service:

Applications / bids for grant funding are submitted to potential funders in an increasingly competitive funding environment; demand for funds far outstrips supply. Regardless of the value of the work you propose for funding, your application is unlikely to succeed unless it is of very high quality and complies in all respects with the particular funder’s Guidance, Funding Criteria and Exclusions. A minor error, omission or misunderstanding of the potential funder’s intentions can make the difference between success or failure.

Developing an application process can be a daunting task, especially when the figures involved are often substantial and competition for funding is extremely high. Last year Charity Fundraising Ltd raised over Two Million pounds for clients, however, we appreciate that the costs in commissioning a fully Outsourced Fundraising Service can often be prohibitive for many charities and most voluntary sector organisations draft their own applications.

Our professional Bid Review Service will review your draft application(s) and provide professional input and advice on how best to put your case forward for funding, substantially increasing the chances of success of your application. Our team of consultants have years of experience in producing successful funding applications for a huge range of the Major Bid processes. With our understanding of the issues that are important to the funder and particular funding stream, we are highly skilled in presenting your organisation and projects to significantly strengthen the likelihood of achieving funding.

Fundraising Campaign Management / Outsourced Fundraising:

Our most popular service proves highly effective for many charities. Our fundraising consultants undertake full management of grant fundraising, maintaining close contact and attending regular progress meetings to agree priorities and strategy. As part of this process we draft all applications and covering letters, forwarding these for approval, printing, signing and posting.

Continuous research within our organisation and subscriptions to a wealth of up-to-date professional fundraising resources ensure we have thousands of funding opportunities available at our fingertips every single day. These include, current and existing grant programmes, updated and extended schemes, and new, emerging and future funding opportunities. Our experienced researchers and fundraising consultants can help your organisation to benefit from these grant programmes.


Funding Opportunities Research:

A wide range of research tools and publications as well as many years experience in professional fundraising, enables us to produce tailored listings of extensive funding opportunities appropriate for your organisation, and projects within your organisation. We can include funding opportunities available from: Grant making trusts, Companies, EU, Lottery, Government and local authority, and High Net Worth / Rich List individuals. We liaise with your existing fundraising team to complement your own in house services, providing additional and new funding opportunities and organisations for you to approach. Full details of application procedures, deadlines and previous grants are provided, enabling the application process to be fully undertaken in-house.


Major Bid Writing:

Major funding bids can be very complicated and time consuming. Charity Fundraising Ltd has extensive experience of writing major competitive bids. We know how best to present your organisation and projects to significantly strengthen the likelihood of success. Many charities would be stretched to allocate resources to major bid processes for several weeks at a time – it’s often unscheduled, and can interfere with the day to day running of your charity, including service delivery to beneficiaries. We can provide professional input by undertaking major processes with you and for you, call us on 01394 610581 to find out more.
See our news page for details of some of Charity Fundraising Ltd’s successes with major funding applications.


Fundraising Audit:

An analysis and review of your current funding situation by one of our experienced Fundraising Consultants, can enable your in-house fundraisers to increase income and diversify funding sources. Our staff have extensive experience in fundraising, and are well versed in the language and requirements of a wide range of funding organisations, grant programmes and opportunities.
Previous successes stand testament to our abilities, and with the knowledge and resources we have available at our fingertips on a daily basis, we can identify the strengths and weaknesses in your strategy, documents, and approach to funders, driving your organisation towards increasing and diversifying your income.


Fundraising Training / Mentoring:

We offer tailored training events for charities in-house or at our office focussing on any aspect of fundraising sources, strategies, bid writing, research and more. If any of the following apply to you, call us on 01394 610581 to find out how we might be able to help you:

  1. We have very little income from grant making trusts and foundations, and would like to maximise revenue from these funding streams.
  2. We have identified a lottery funding programme that we would like to capitalise on, but have little experience of either the lottery application processes, or major bid writing.
  3. We need help to develop a fundraising strategy and a business plan that will work together to promote our organisation and increase our levels of funding.

Charity Fundraising also offers regular, low cost training events for smaller charities at our offices in Woodbridge, Suffolk. We currently run two courses; Finding Funding and Grants and Beyond.


Fundraising Strategy / Feasibility:

Major capital project? Ad-hoc fundraising? Every charity needs a good fundraising strategy to ensure the security and growth of the organisation. We will work with you to establish how your planned developments can be achieved and offer a reasoned analysis of opportunities for funding and realistic expectations of achievable income.

We work on many major capital projects and our experience could be invaluable to ensure the success of your project. We are able to provide essential input on; the most fundable elements of a project, community consultation, plans to monitor, evaluate and report on grants and donations, and adding national significance to your project(if applicable), to widen funding opportunities

It can be of great benefit to develop partnerships and relationships with local authorities, funders and other organisations. We can help you to identify potential project partners, and develop useful relationships with appropriate organisations.


Building Internal Fundraising Capacity:

We can work with you to develop internal fundraising capacity within your organisation, or to strengthen your existing arrangements. This may include recruitment or training / mentoring an in-house team.

With our professional fundraising resources, we can provide detailed funding opportunities, and long lists of research for very good value. We can also offer mentoring and consultancy for specific application processes, adding value to the application, and helping the team build skills and experience that they can use in the future.

As little as two days a month professional consultation for your in-house fundraising team can provide enormous benefits for your charity; helping to develop strategies for long-term sustainable fundraising and major capital developments.

Our fee structure; we work on a day fee basis of £400 per day plus VAT