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2010 Forum – Jonathan Waddingham

fsi — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:47:23 +0000

Jonathan Waddingham is a product manager at the UK’s largest online fundraising platform, JustGiving. Previously digital strategist, he led their social media strategy and focuses on developing updates to the website to help individuals raise money using social media. He also manages the development of their API programme, which will enable developers to build rich applications or websites powered by JustGiving’s award-winning fundraising technology.

Presentation: How small charities can use the web to punch above their weight

15.15

The internet has opened the door for small charities to fundraise and communicate in ways that were previously only accessible for the very largest charities. With this democratisation of technology new opportunities have arisen, but it’s not always obvious how to make the most of these opportunities. We’ll look at how some small charities have made the most of the web and how you can enable your supporters to fundraise for you across social media like Facebook and Twitter.

Key learning outcomes:
How a small charity ran a successful appeal that raised £10,000 in just a few days using email, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter
How charity supporters are using the web to fundraise for the causes they care about
How to approach a social media strategy

15.15 – Jonathan Waddingham – How Small Charities Can Use The Web To Punch Above Their Weight

2010 Forum – Graham Precey

fsi — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:29:19 +0000

Graham Precey has been Head of Corporate Responsibility for Legal & General Group Plc for three years. His role is to be the “conscience” of the organisation in the way that it campaigns for social, environmental and economic issues material to its businesses of Risk, Savings and Investment Management.

Legal & General is campaigning for important issues as a major player in the Financial Services Industry including: Housing for all, Good Corporate Governance, A Healthier Nation, a Stronger Savings Culture, Sustainable Commercial Property and Alleviating Pensioner Poverty. Details of Legal & General’s campaigns can be found here www.legalandgeneralgroupcsr.com

His previous 7 years in Legal & General’s Wealth Division were spent as Head of Operations for Banks and Building Societies and Investment Operations. The previous 6 years to that were spent working for Hewlett Packard in the US and Asia.

A corporate view of the world is balanced with Graham’s involvement in leading Third Sector organisations. He is as Chair of Trustees for the charity www.sail4cancer.org and Trustee of the Foundation for Social Improvement.

Graham’s first dip into what has now evolved into a career in Social responsibility was sitting outside a local supermarket aged 8 with his Dad selling Bricks for £1 to help build a local community swimming pool in what is believed to be the first ever “Buy a Brick” campaign.

Presentation: Corporates should support charity because….? Ways to engage Corporates post recession..

13.45pm

Graham Precey – Corportates should support charity because…?

2010 Forum – Pauline Broomhead

fsi — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:13:13 +0000

Pauline Broomhead is the founding CEO of the FSI, a charity she set up with Emma Harrison focused on arming small charities with the best learning opportunities to secure a sustainable future. Since 2007, the FSI has grown to become the largest provider of free capacity building services for small charities and has helped thousands of charities to adopt new strategic skills in delivering their mission.

Pauline’s career has seen her work on campaigns with many of the most high-profile charities in the UK and abroad. She has garnered a reputation for outstanding commitment to the sector, bringing strategic planning, fundraising and relationship-management skills to all the work she undertakes.

Today, Pauline is a passionate advocate for building a supportive funding and policy environment for the small charity sector. She is a much sought after speaker at conferences worldwide where she is known for pulling no punches in championing best practice.

Presentation: Don’t sit on your Assets

11.35am

Pauline Broomhead – Don’t Sit on Your Assets

2010 Forum – Dominic Evers

fsi — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:59:04 +0000

Dominic was educated at St Albans School and Durham University where he gained a degree in Psychology. After leaving University he became a junior advisor at the executive search firm Egon Zehnher International. In 1992 he joined the British Diabetic Association (now Diabetes UK) as a fundraiser. Early experience included helping set up the charity’s first ever direct mail campaign and establishing a major giving programme.

In 1996 Dominic joined the NSPCC as a trusts fundraiser and eventually became Head of Trust Fundraising. He has gained extensive experience working with some of the largest private funding bodies in the UK including the Garfield Weston Foundation the Impetus Trust and the Clore Duffield Foundation. During the NSPCC’s Full Stop Campaign Dominic pioneered the use of the seven steps of solicitation model with trusts, succesfully raising over £40 million for the associated Appeal.

Presentation: Trusts: It’s all about trust

10.20am

Rather than just feeling smug about coming up with a ‘clever’ name, this session is centred around the need to build relationships with people associated with grant-making trusts, be they employees, trustees or influencers. Smaller charities often have very limited resources and it can feel like the fundraising imperative is to get in money right now – and trusts look like an easy target. The premise of this session is that by taking a step back and doing your groundwork, you can focus on building substantive, long term relationships with those trusts that are most likely to support your cause at a significant level. It will also explore the changing nature of the relationship between funder and fundee, the role of intermediaries (such as wealth advisers and organisations such as New Philanthropy Capital) and the related rise of the venture philanthropy model.

Dominic Evers – Trusts. It’s all about Trust

Small Charity Week 2010

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:21:58 +0000

At the FSI we put small charities first and in 2010 we want to celebrate their successes and the value of small charities in our communities as we launch the inaugural Small Charity Week! www.smallcharityweek.com

Small Charity Week 2010 will bring together organisations, businesses, schools and other partners across the UK to focus on campaigning small charity issues, lobbying for small charities and the sector, fundraising, and challenging negative and affirming positive messages about small charities with the general public.

Each day will adopt a key theme (as identified by charities) and provide forums to up-skill and activities to get involved in. You can choose how much you want to be involved, from a single online session to a full week of activities!

During Small Charity Week the FSI will be doubling with a number of partners to provide daily activities and opportunities for small charities. To get into the spirit of the week we would also like to invite small charities to celebrate and organise their own profile raising/fundraising events and activities and register these on our website to create publicity, gather support, and become part of the Small Charity Week community.

We will also be inviting small charities to post their success stories on the Small Charity Week website and to invite their beneficiaries and supporters to upload their stories and comments on ‘how a small charity has touched me/changed my life’ Let’s get our voices heard, stories told, and take the time to share, speak-out, learn from each other, and most importantly celebrate the good work, dedication and passion of small charities!!

Log onto www.smallcharityweek.com for further information.

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admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:43:51 +0000

Sharing the Best Forum 2010

14th October 2010

Canary Wharf, London

The FSI Forum leads the UK in bringing together the most-inspirational speakers on fundraising and putting them in front of an audience of passionate individuals representing small charities from right across the country. Since its inception in 2007, the FSI Forum has presented speakers that include Kay Sprinkel Grace, Joe Saxton, and Tim Campbell, empowering small charities to adopt emerging trends in best practice and maximise the impact they have on their beneficiary communities, the FSI Forum 2010 will build on those successes.

There are approximately 166,000 small charities working every day to support their communities and the FSI Forum is just one part of our programme that contributes to building a sustainable, strategic and knowledge-sharing sector.

Find out more about last year’s event.

*All 200 free places are allocated on a first come first serve basis to individuals from 100% Not-for-profit organisations with an annual raised voluntary income of less than £1.5 million. Two places per organisation and a waiting list thereafter.

For your early bird place email jess@thefsi.org

Forum 2008 – Kate Jackson

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:27:53 +0000

I first came to Lancashire Wildlife Trust as a volunteer about three years ago and have been in post as Membership Development Officer for the last two and a half years. As part of a small team, I play a key role in contributing to our fundraising targets and sharing ideas with the rest of the Development Department. I’m eager and enthusiastic and ready to learn!
I am also extremely fortunate to be the first FSI scholar! This is a life changing opportunity for me as I am able to attend training courses and receive mentoring that is beyond the capabilities of our budget. I’m committed to a career in fundraising as I think the Third Sector has the talent and creativity to deliver projects, across the board, with a passion that some commercial alternatives simply don’t have.

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Forum 2008 – Mike Locke

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:27:30 +0000

Mike Locke was appointed in May 2008 to the newly created role of Director of Public Affairs at Volunteering England (VE), the national development agency for volunteering. Previously, he had worked with the Centre for Institutional Studies at the University of East London, as Director of the centre until March 2007 and then being seconded to VE’s Institute for Volunteering Research as Assistant Director. In 1997 he helped create the Institute with current VE Chief Executive Justin Davis Smith, through the association of Volunteering England and the University of East London. With the Institute for Volunteering Research, he has been involved a variety of studies, including evaluation of government policies and organisational programmes for volunteering, exploratory studies in faith-based voluntary action and community involvement, and the management capacities of volunteer-involving organisations. Mike was also a founder member of the Advisory Group initiating and developing strategy for volunteering for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
Mike’s experience of voluntary organisations and voluntary action dates back to the early 1970s through involvement in community organisations in the North Kensington/Notting Hill area of London, and he has worked as a researcher and teacher with voluntary and community sector issues since the early 1980s.

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Forum 2008 – Polly Gowers

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:27:01 +0000

Polly Gowers founded Everyclick.com, the website that is revolutionising the way we give to charity. It provides the facilities for all 200,000 UK charities to collect donations in a range of ways online. It is the most visited website in the charity sector and has ambitions to move charitable giving which still mainly occurs offline, online.
Polly has secured significant financial backing from some of the most established, blue-chip UK investors including the Fleming Family to support the development of the complex IT infrastructure that powers Everyclick.com.
Awards include WEBA Ethical Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 and Blackberry Woman in Technology 2008. Everyclick is a Finalist at the National Business Awards 2008.

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Forum 2008 – Annabel James

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:26:33 +0000

Annabel’s career includes the commercial and not-for-profit sectors. She started in corporate communications working on community relations and corporate reputation issues. She moved into the charity sector as Head of Corporate Fundraising at the NSPCC during the FULL STOP appeal where her focus was raising £50 million from the corporate sector. More recently she was Director of Charities and CSR at GCap Media, the UK’s largest commercial radio group, responsible for fundraising and grant-giving for iconic charity brands including Help a London Child and Classic FM s Music Makers. She moved back into consultancy in 2008 setting up Magenta Projects, providing fundraising consultancy for small charities and CSR strategy and implementation for corporates.

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