Fundraising, Marketing & Communications Series

Our learning opportunities extend beyond animal welfare topics, and we offer a series of learning opportunities that support key areas of your organisation, such as fundraising, marketing and communications.

From creating strategies to focussed sessions on different income streams and tools to optimise online presence, we’re delivering learning opportunities that meet your needs and support your organisation’s professionalism and sustainability. 

Duration: sessions range from 1 hour 30 minutes to half and full-day, depending on the topic

 

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Check-in & Chat: Fundraising through Events

In this Check-in & Chat session, we'll hear from the experiences of guest speakers who have organised successful fundraising events for their organisations, with lots of tips and ideas to be shared.

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Individual Giving & Appeals

In this session we look at the key aspects in building an engaging and long-lasting course for regular givers and how to maximise a critical tool for this - the appeal!

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Major Donor Fundraising

This session gives an overview of major donor fundraising and provides delegates with the tools to start a major donor session in a small charity.

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Legacy Fundraising

This session introduces legacy giving and provides delegates with the tools to develop the legacy giving session within their organisation.

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Creating a Fundraising Strategy

This session is suitable for those with a responsibility for planning and delivering fundraising strategies within an animal rescue. You will look at how to develop your Fundraising Strategy. It will provide a structured road map and relevant tools to enable you to produce and implement a fundraising strategy in your organisation.

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Income Diversification

In this session we look at what funding options may be available to you and how to choose the avenues for diversifying your income which are most likely to succeed.

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Grants Fundraising: Introduction

This course is for those who are new to grants fundraising to start from the basic fundamentals of what a grant is, what the grant-cycle looks like, how to get started identifying and applying for grant opportunities, different types of applications and the basics of putting

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Grants Fundraising: Advanced

This course is for experienced grant fundraisers who would like to enhance their knowledge and skills in order to improve their success rate and get the most out of their partnership with their grant funders.

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Dates & Times

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GRANTS FUNDRAISING: INTRODUCTION

Wednesday 5 March 2025 | 9.30am – 1.30pm GMT

Thursday 4 September 2025 | 9.30am – 1.30pm BST

CHECK-IN & CHAT: FUNDRAISING THOUGH EVENTS

Friday 28 March 2025 | 1pm – 2.30pm GMT

CREATING A FUNDRAISING STRATEGY

Thursday 15 - Friday 16 May 2025 | 9:30am - 12:30pm BST

GRANTS FUNDRAISING: ADVANCED

Thursday 5 June 2025 | 9:30am - 1:30pm BST

INDIVIDUAL GIVING & APPEALS

Wednesday 11 June 2025 | 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM BST

MAJOR DONOR FUNDRAISING

Tuesday 29 July 2025 | 9:30am - 12:30pm BST

LEGACY FUNDRAISING

Tuesday 30 September 2025 | 9:30am - 12:30pm BST

INCOME DIVERSIFICATION

Tuesday 11 November 2025 | 9:30am - 11:30am GMT
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