Call for Papers for Convention 2025 is now open!

We are delighted to announce that Fundraising Convention 2025 will be taking place for the third year running at the QEII Centre in London on 9 & 10 June 2025.

We are now actively looking for content and speakers for the event, so if you’ve got something interesting to share with the sector and would like to speak at Convention at next year’s event, then we want to hear from you!

Your experience, research and ideas can help shape fundraising and influence fundraisers across the sector and Fundraising Convention provides the perfect platform for sharing your expertise.

All sessions will be 45 mins in duration, so please bear this in mind when considering your session. There will be no set formats for sessions. We are open to any ideas you have, and your content will influence the shape of things, so please feel free to be as creative as possible with your session proposal.

How to apply?

Applications to speak at Fundraising Convention 2025 are to be completed via the Call for Papers portal.  

Your submission should focus on the following:

  1. What is your session idea?
  2. Who is it for?
  3. What will they get from it?

And the tracks this year will be:

  • Strategy, Innovation & Income Generation
  • Trusts, Philanthropy & Partnerships
  • Public Fundraising & Mass Engagement
  • Career Development, Leadership & Wellbeing
  • Legacies & In-memory Giving
  • Supporter Insight & Research
  • Main stage*

* This track takes place in the main plenary space and will cover the most topical and important subjects in the sector at the moment and is intended for any fundraiser attending the event

SUBMIT YOUR IDEA HERE

 

Accessibility 

Accessibility is a core principle of our event delivery and we want to make Fundraising Convention 2025 as inclusive as possible, including the process to apply to become a speaker. If you have any accessibility requirements and you would like an alternative method of submitting your application, please do contact the team to discuss.

We want to increase representation from a broad spectrum of people within the fundraising community and place value in hearing from third parties who can provide insight to our members. We want to eradicate the barriers and level-out disparities that may affect becoming a speaker. Please see our FAQs, which include our current practices to support inclusivity and accessibility. If there is anything you feel isn’t already covered and referenced by our FAQs, please contact the team who will do whatever they can to support you.

The deadline to submit your ideas is 23.59 on Monday 21 October 2024

Best of luck to everyone!

SUBMIT YOUR IDEA HERE