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Below you can find a list of our upcoming training courses, qualifications and events. You can also view any resources (including blogs, guidance and articles). You can use the filter on the left to search for a specific type or interest for example. 

Trusts Fundraising - Getting Started (24-Jan-25)

24 January 2025
Online
Training
This course is for people with limited trust fundraising experience.

Trusts Fundraising - Improving your success (Intermediate) (29-Jan-25)

29 January 2025
Online
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.

Managing your Trust Fundraising Programme Strategically (18-Feb-25)

18 February 2025
Online
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.

Trusts Fundraising - Getting Started (11-Mar-25)

11 March 2025
Online
Training

This course is for people with limited trust fundraising experience.

Trusts Fundraising - Improving your success (Intermediate) (24-Mar-25)

24 March 2025
Online
Training
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.

Managing your Trust Fundraising Programme Strategically (30-Apr-25)

30 April 2025
Online
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.

Trusts Fundraising - Getting Started (20-May-25)

20 May 2025
Online
Training
This course is for people with limited trust fundraising experience.

Fundraising Success with Capital Appeal Strategies

05 January 2024
Resource
Andy Robin, a capital appeal specialist, heads the capital appeal that is refurbishing Paisley Museum. In this article, he shares his insights about this area of fundraising based on experience from t...

Planning and delivering Harmeny’s Learning for Life Appeal

01 November 2023
Resource
Alison Acosta, Fundraising and Communications Manager at Harmeny Education Trust, shares her experience of running a capital appeal.

My Fundraising Career: Mark Storey MBA CMgr FCMI

05 January 2023
Resource
Mark Storey reflects on how he discovered a career in fundraising and the lessons learned along the way.

Essential Fundraising Workshops

07 December 2020
Resource
This series of Essential Fundraising Workshops were produced by the Chartered Institute in collaboration with the Small Charities Coalition and supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.

What is wrong with funders?

12 February 2020
Resource
Harriet Stranks, Director of Grants at Lloyds Bank Foundation, asks what is wrong with funders, and looks at why this is not a simple problem with a simple solution.

Five tips to stop your funding proposal from ending up in the bin

11 February 2020
Resource
David Burgess, Director of Apollo Fundraising, offers five observations in this blog that can stop your funding proposal from ending up in the ‘no’ pile.

Could we make grant reporting fun?

04 February 2020
Resource
Emily Dyson-Hawkes, Head of Communications at the Institute for Voluntary Action Research, takes a look in this blog at principles for funders to adopt that help to ease the burden of grant reporting.

How changing our relationships with trusts led to a huge spike in income at Sue Ryder

24 April 2019
Resource
Andy Watts, Head of Trusts at Sue Ryder, explains how by changing how they interact with trusts and foundations, they were able to increase trust income by 349% in the space of a year.

Grants and trusts

Resource