Professional fundraisers throughout the UK are delivering excellent, high quality, legally sound work that is helping to drive forward to profession and to create real impacts for the charities they work for.
Fundraisers are influencing strategic decisions, are delivering impact, and are constantly evolving their outputs to meet the changing needs of society. The standards that professional fundraisers work to are high, and they deserve to be recognised in a way that demonstrates their level of influence and experience.
To enable career fundraisers to stand out and be acknowledged on par with peers from other professions, the Chartered Institute of Fundraising is working towards being able to award individual fundraisers with chartered status.
The Chartered Institute will ask its members to vote on a motion to change the Chartered Institute’s by-laws, which would allow it to confer chartership on individual fundraisers.
A vote will take place, which – if backed by members – will kick off the process of planning to charter individual fundraisers.
There will be a number of routes available to achieve Chartership. A combination approach that blends academic achievement with experience gained through employment, plus an experience approach that recognises the wealth and depth of an individual’s fundraising career and allocates CPD in relation to experiences gained.
Becoming a Chartered Fundraiser will help professionals to showcase their expertise, stand out from the crowd and develop their careers.