Funding and fundraising
Find information on how to be successful in securing funding for your organisation, including recovering core costs.
Funding
Funding application tips
Some tips to make your funding application stand out and maximise your chances of securing the funding you apply for.
Video: Find Your Funding Workshop
A video workshop on how to use the Support Cambridgeshire idox funding search platform.
Ten Top Tips for Funding Bids
Our 10 top tips for writing successful funding bids.
Winning Bid Writing
A list of 8 things to consider when writing funding applications.
Tips for Funding Applications
This guide has been written for any group applying for funding
Core costs
Core costs are an essential expense for any organisation, find out how to include these costs in your funding application and get them funded.
Full Cost Recovery
PDF from The National Lottery explaining how your organisation can use full cost recovery to cover all of a project’s costs.
How to cover core costs
A Guide – It is hard enough to raise project costs, let alone core costs, so what are the ways in which fundraising charities can tackle this successfully?
Video: Helping your charity understand full cost recovery
Video – BCCE explain the concept of full cost recovery and why being able to get funding for core costs is vital to securing a charity’s future.
Fundraising
Fundraising code and agreements
Make sure your fundraising activities are properly planned. Find information on the fundraising regulator’s code of practice, example fundraising agreements and more.
Fundraising Agreement Template
A fundraising agreement template which can be used between an individual and a charity.
Code of Fundraising Practice
The Code of Fundraising Practice sets out the responsibilities that apply to fundraising carried out by charitable institutions and third-party fundraisers in the UK
Guide for trustees
Charity trustees have overall responsibility and accountability for their charity and this includes its fundraising, it is therefore important trustees understand their role in fundraising.
Charity fundraising: a guide to trustee duties
Charity Commission PDF on the role of trustees in charity fundraising activities.
Charging beneficiaries
Can (and should) charities charge their beneficiaries to generate income to help run their services? And what happens when they do?
The Pros and Cons of Charging Charity Beneficiaries
A Guide – Can (and should) charities charge their beneficiaries to make up for falling fundraising income? And what happens when they do?
Fundraising platforms
A guide to the various fundraising platforms available to organisations including a comparison of costs.
Video: 3 ways to be a more effective fundraiser
Ted Talk from Kara Logan on fundraising tips and techniques to help your organisation.
Fundraising Platform Price Comparison Chart
A chart from Charity Digital which compares the costs of all the main online fundraising platforms.
Online Fundraising Platforms: An Overview
Gift Aid
Everything you need to know to register with HMRC to ensure you claim what you’re entitled to, as well as gift aid declaration forms and more.
Charity Gift Aid Declaration – single donation
Charity Gift Aid Declaration to be used for single donations
Charity Gift Aid Declaration – multiple donation
Charity Gift Aid Declaration for multiple donations.
Registering for Gift Aid with HMRC
This guide gives you practical step-by-step instructions to register with HMRC to ensure you claim everything you’re entitled to.
Failed Fundraising Appeals
Failed Fundraising Appeals
A guide – Charity Act 2022 changes affecting failed (and over successful) fundraising appeals
