Where the money comes from and how to ask for it. Gift Aid, grants, regular giving, legacies, corporate support, events and in-kind gifts, along with the rules that govern all of them. Written for charities with no dedicated fundraiser, so the advice assumes limited time rather than a team.
The bank statement shows £8,000 arriving in April. It is now November; the accounts are being prepared, and nobody can say with certainty whether that money was for the youth project or for general funds. Somebody thinks there was an…
A charity wins £20,000 for a project. The project runs, the outcomes are good, the funder is pleased. At year-end, the charity is further behind than it was. Nothing went wrong. The £20,000 covered the sessional worker, the materials and…
The lesson isn’t the money Small Charity Week runs from 22 to 29 June this year, and most of what you’ll read about it leads with the same figure: £1.84 million raised in seven days during the 2025 campaign. It’s…
A charity can do everything right and still get Gift Aid wrong. The staff are dedicated, the trustees are diligent, the donations are genuine, and somewhere in the process, a claim gets made that shouldn’t have been, or a declaration…
You register the charity. The certificate arrives. And within a fortnight, the question lands; from a trustee, a supporter, sometimes from your own head: what can we apply for? It’s the natural next move. You’ve got a cause, a board,…
The Money You’ve Already Earned and Aren’t Collecting A donation lands after a good event. The gifts are counted, banked, and recorded. Everyone is pleased, and the team moves on to the next thing that is on fire. A year…
Charitable giving in the UK fell last year. If your charity leans on one or two income sources, that should worry you more than it worries most. But the answer isn’t to fundraise harder. New research from the Charities Aid…
The Free £2,000 Most Small UK Charities Are Leaving Behind HMRC will give your charity up to £2,000 a year. It is called the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme, and most small charities are leaving it on the table. Some…
The Code changed at the end of 2025, and the change matters more than most summaries suggest. The old version listed rules for almost every situation, and charities used it as a checklist. The current one is around 45% shorter…