fundraising services

FFA can create workable strategies designed to meet your specific needs and maximise your fundraising potential. We can also provide all the support you need to action these plans. Our services include:  

• Fundraising audits and reviews

• Fundraising strategies

• Big gift and Capital Appeals including feasibility studies

• Donor research

• Legacy, donor or corporate campaigns

• Campaign management; hands-on help if you need it

• Grantmaking trust campaigns; including a range of new fixed-price services

• Fundraising event creation and management

• Recruitment of fundraising personnel and volunteers

Or approach to this type of project is very flexible and we work closely with clients to develop programmes tailored to their needs.  

Our standard voluntary sector day rates apply to these services.

It has been a great pleasure working with FFA on what became the single most successful appeal in the history of St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy. The centenary appeal was always going to be difficult considering the constituents the charity served, Anglican Clergy. However, FFA managed to achieve income of over £2million pounds, far exceeding our expectations (but not our needs). I was so impressed that we asked the team to work on grant and trust funding in 2007. They increased income in that year by 30% and in 2008 we had achieved our grant giving target with five months of the year to spare. I can't recommend them highly enough for capital appeals or trust funding and I am sure that we will be working together again in the future."  John Cherry, Chief Executive, St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy

Fees for fundraising consultants vary enormously, anything from £150 to £2000 per day depending on the experience and track record of the consultant, and the complexity of the project. So it pays to be certain about what you want a consultant to do and define this clearly in a brief. And don’t be tempted into a commission-only payment arrangement. These can deter donors from supporting you and usually do not reflect the level of work undertaken by the consultant. What’s more it’s not always possible to attribute every donation or gift to the efforts of a specific fundraiser and this can cause conflict.