Setting a poor example

September 7, 2009

I’ve just opened the latest email from one of the fundraising consultancies, organisations or publishers of fundraising magazines advertising their latest one-day conference that will transform the fundraising of my organisation. This latest one was for VAT and tax. Every week it’s a new topic: communications; charity law; high impact events; e-commerce; direct mail, etc.
Or [...]

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Eddie Izzard: Superhero!

September 7, 2009

For most people fundraising events are a bit of a challenge. Fun, but a bit of a challenge. However, comedian and actor Eddie Izzard set himself a fundraising challenge that most would consider a nightmare. He’s running 1,000 miles in seven weeks to raise money for Sports Relief. This works out at approximately 42 marathons [...]

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Legacy fundraising – media interest

July 4, 2009

I had an interesting phone conversation the other day with a journalist from BBC Leeds. She was researching for the Inside Out programme about how the recession is affecting charities’ legacy income. It appears that one local Leeds charity has told her they are taking properties left in Wills to them off the market, because [...]

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“There may be trouble ahead…”

June 1, 2009

With the current trend for some similar charities to merge together, comes a warning from the Charity Commission and lawyers that there may be problems with future legacies, if the gift is made in the former name of one of the charities.
A Will is just what it says on the box, it is the will [...]

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Solva – a village blessed!

June 1, 2009

If you want to know why I am so fascinated by legacies and legacy fundraising, I guess it’s because of the unknown and surprise elements they hold.

For example, just last week there was an amazing story that hit the national BBC News headlines. It concerned a lady, Margaret Allan, who lived in a small [...]

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