Arts Trust Fundraisers Annual Conference – Cambridge Junction – Friday 19th October The annual Arts Trust Fundraisers conference is always a fantastic event and, with over 120 fundraisers already booked, this year promises to be bigger than ever. David will be repeating his popular “Everyone’s a Critic” session, giving you the opportunity to take on
David is delighted to be delivering two training sessions as part of the Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy 2018-19 programme. Essentials in Individual Giving will be delivered in Manchester (September) and Birmingham (November). Major Donors and Legacies will be delivered in Manchester (February) and Oxford (March) Click here for more information and to book your place
As part of the SHARE Museums East programme, we are delighted to be running our “Logging on to Digital Fundraising” session at – appropriately enough – the Museum of Computing History in Cambridge. This session looks at some of the key principles of using digital channels to support your fundraising. We’ll look at how to
Are you a museum in the East of England? Are you looking to develop a new fundraising strategy? We are delighted to be working with SHARE Museums East to offer specialist training and support for four museums in the East of England. Funded by HLF, the participating museums will attend group workshops to learn about
In October, David ran a peer-review session at the Arts Trust Fundraisers annual conference. The session gave delegates the chance to learn from real-life proposals. This new blog post summarises some of the common challenges with proposals, and gives 8 tips for you when writing funding applications. You can read it here – apollofundraising.com/common-trust-issues
David is delighted to be working with Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy to deliver training in Individual Giving for arts organisations across the UK. The one-day course will support you to identify the most appropriate individual giving schemes for your organisation or project and – more importantly – for your potential supporters. There are currently four dates:
On 1st July 2016, Apollo Fundraising started trading. Since then, we have had the pleasure of working with a wide range of arts and culture organisations across the UK, helping them to achieve their fundraising goals. As we celebrate our first birthday we have put together a breakdown of some of our achievements over the
Fundraising isn’t free money. It requires time, effort and usually financial investment before you see a return. Dedicating time to fundraising is one thing if you have a Fundraising or Development Team, but what if you are a small organisation with just one or two people doing everything? In this new blog, David shares some thoughts
David has been working with a number of organisations who are new to fundraising. As a result, he has been thinking about what fundraising is and, more importantly, what it is not. This short blog post shares some of those thoughts. You can read it here – What is Fundraising?
On 15th March, David will be in Glasgow to deliver a CPD session with the Institute of Fundraising Scottish Trusts, Statutory and Foundations Special Interest Group. The session will explore the different factors that affect the decisions we make and what this means for us as fundraisers. Focusing on the psychology of making decisions it