Trust Fundraising 101: Understanding the UK Funding Landscape
Trust fundraising offers charities a significant income opportunity — but success requires more than having a worthy cause. Stacey Teece walks through the landscape, the key players, and the approach that gives new trust fundraisers the strongest possible start.
Why Trust Fundraisers Must Be Involved in Project Design
When trust fundraisers are brought in at the last minute, applications suffer. Stacey Teece makes the case for involving fundraisers in project design from the outset — and explains why the charities that do this consistently raise more from trusts.
How to Find the Right Trust Funders: A Prospect Research Guide
Finding the right trust funders for your charity starts with asking the right questions — before you search a single database. Beth Upton walks through the six questions to ask first, and a curated list of free and low-cost research tools that trust fundraisers actually use.
Trust Fundraising Under Pressure
Emergency trust fundraising is rarely ideal — but sometimes unavoidable. Beth Upton explains how to act quickly and effectively when urgency strikes, and more importantly, how to build a sustainable trust pipeline that prevents the crisis from recurring.
Trust Fundraising Myths Debunked
We speak to charities every day about fundraising from trusts & foundations. There are some key themes that emerge time and again – misunderstandings about grant-makers, their purpose, their requirements – and we want to set the record straight by airing these trust fundraising myths and explaining the truth instead.
Trust Fundraising: A £4 Billion Opportunity
In the UK, close to 10,000 charitable trusts grant over £4 billion per year to good causes. Many organisations have found that this can be a reliable and steady stream of income.
6 Essentials for a Successful Major Donor Programme
We are often asked what needs to be in place for successful major donor fundraising, to which the answer varies depending on the charity. However, there are 6 generally accepted fundamental factors (I don’t claim to have invented these!), which should act as the core of your major donor programme