Future Fundraising have been nominated and are on the short list for the Partners in Fundraising Award from the Institute of Fundraising. As Darren Luff, Head of Fundraising at Mencap puts it: “We’ve been working in partnership with Future Fundraising for 2 years and I can honestly say that they have an amazing approach to [...]

DARS the Donor Acquisition and Retention Survey is now released for 2012.  Charities are invited to enter information about their face to face fundraising campaigns.  Rupert Tappin and Morag Fleming feed back information at the IOF convention in July which helps to benchmark current trends in attrition. “By measuring attrition more carefully we can isolate [...]

Future Fundraising meeting up for a look back at the year before we party. After a successful year of charity fundraising – including during the winter months – we are getting ready to celebrate with our party. Rupert Tappin outlined the main acheivements of the year and indicated what 2012 will bring. In the photo [...]

Donor Attrition and Retention Survey 2011 shows F2F attrition rates returning to pre-recession levels Average street attrition back below 50 per cent Average first year street F2F at lowest recorded level Average doorstep attrition at 37 per cent Rupert Tappin and Morag Fleming presented the results of the 2011 PFRA charity-wide survey at the PFRA [...]

Fundraising for Geranium Day started outside the Future Fundraising office at 7 o’clock this morning. Rob, Amy and Alex hit the streets of North London to do our bit for this special day.   The first half hour was quite quiet but then more people arrived on their way to work, and fundraising and conversations [...]

A mobile phone app has been used by the Canadian Red Cross during the year and operates on the same principle as social media.  You send out messages on facebook twitter and elsewhere and your friends and fans choose to donate. According to Third Sector Apple are refusing to re-open their app for mobile donations, [...]

Welcome Calling A welcome call to donors who have recently agreed to donate to your charity has many benefits.  It helps to make the donors feel appreciated and valued which has been found to increase retention.  It is an opportunity to quickly check name and personal information including bank details, thus quickly picking up any [...]