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Training
**1 SPACE - Email academy@ciof.org.uk to book**
**NEW COURSE** As we look to a new generation of donors, it is now more important than ever for charities to align their understanding of what drives and engages donors and prospects.
24 April 2024 - 09 July 2025
Online
Qualification
The booking deadline for this qualification is 10th April 2024.
Please contact academy@ciof.org.uk if you have any questions about this qualification.
Event
A members only one-hour virtual workshop with charity law firm, Bates Wells, exploring current trends in ESG and how charities can meaningfully talk about it with supporters.
24 - 25 April 2024
Online
Training
**FULLY BOOKED** This is a course designed specifically for anyone responsible for creating a strategy and plan in major gift fundraising or who wants to prepare for a role where this will be part of the job.
Training
**FULLY BOOKED** The estimated total £6.5 billion of annual grants are made by charitable foundations, which includes the £2.9 billion grant-making by the top 300 trusts. This accounts for around 15% of voluntary income in the sector.
Training
Mid-value giving is a bit of a mystery to many fundraisers. In many ways this is not a surprise as mid-value giving is largely a very underdeveloped area of fundraising in the UK. And yet, it is a vital part of the fundraising mix.
Resource
Pan European Non-profit Pulse Report 2024 reveals how fundraisers are facing greatest challenges head on
Training
Change is happening in many organisations – revisiting how you deliver your services and understanding who your primary and secondary beneficiaries are, may in itself open up new funders to you.
Training
**NEW COURSE**
This course is aimed at charities investing at least £2,000 per month on online advertising. The course will start off covering the basics but will quickly ascend into more advanced digital fundraising strategies and best practices.
02 May 2024
London - In Person
Event
Join your corporate peers to reflect on sector news, share insights and discuss opportunities to grow giving.
The quarterly partnership forum takes place in person in May and attendance is open to all corporate members and strategic partners.
Resource
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 fundrai...
Resource
Philanthropy is at a crucial turning point. Throughout the pandemic we saw many passionate and committed philanthropists step up their giving so charities could keep helping those who needed support.
Training
This course is designed for fundraisers who are new or relatively new to legacy fundraising. Legacy fundraising is likely to be only one part of your responsibilities.
Training
**NEW COURSE**
Demonstrating impact is crucial for fundraising – and data is the evidence that you can use. Visual presentations of data are proven to be more persuasive, engaging and effective than narrative text or tables of numbers.
Training
**1 SPACE - EMAIL ACADEMY@CIOF.ORG.UK TO BOOK**
**NEW COURSE** While most large charities have a role dedicated to prospect research, most fundraisers will be expected to carry out this vital fundraising activity with no training.
Resource
Public fundraising is one of the most popular and effective methods of fundraising across the sector, and it is not unusual to see the colourful vests of fundraisers from some of the country’s most we...
Training
Are you new to major gift fundraising or is your organisation now stepping out more boldly into this type of fundraising?
Training
This course is for people with limited trust fundraising experience.
Training
This indispensable one day course will provide you with the logistical know-how to ensure that your next events run as smoothly as possible, giving you a thorough understanding of what is needed to design and deliver your best fundraising event to date.
Training
About half a million families suffer a bereavement each year in the UK. Over £80m is given in memory each year by family and friends in the UK.