How to find new charity of the year partners’

Every year Darnell Consulting conducts an in-depth piece of research into the charity of the year market in the UK. This gives us unrivalled insight into the opportunities

available to charities and the things that help charities to win these partnerships.

This webinar will cover:

• Why charity of the year programmes are still relevant to a large segment of the charity sector (and not just something for big brands)
• How to sense check your readiness for targeting charity of the year programmes
• Best way to segment the opportunities, build a pipeline and target prospects
• Headline trends and developments
• Trouble shooting some common obstacles
• Live Q&A session

This session will be led by Grahame Darnell

Grahame Darnell

Grahame has over 24 years’ experience of working at a senior level in the charity sector in addition to the first five years of his career which were spent working in marketing in the commercial sector.

He has managed every aspect of the fundraising mix through successful roles at Head and Director level. Since becoming a consultant, Grahame is widely recognised as a corporate fundraising expert and is involved with several cutting-edge initiatives relating to fundraising and purpose-led business in the UK and beyond.

Grahame sits on the Chartered Institute of Fundraising’s Finance and Resources Committee, and he is a trustee for St Raphael’s Hospice where he chairs the Income Generation and Communications Committee.

About this series

Are you looking for new ways to work with businesses? These webinars will help you discover fresh approaches to developing your corporate fundraising, both on and offline. Guests will share some tried & tested ways of working, they will also share their successes and challenges. All of this knowledge will give you new ideas and concepts to try for yourself that will improve your offering to corporate prospects, or current partners. 

Each month Julia will provide unique insight into what is happening in the business and the charity sector, she will update you on the current trends for business leaders, their challenges, new initiatives, and how the current economic situation is affecting their support of charities. She will demonstrate how your corporate fundraising can support businesses with their current challenges, helping you to access those opportunities.

Amber Consulting has access to over 3,000 fundraisers, this allows Julia to provide exclusive insight regarding issues in the third sector as they start to arise, giving you a finger on the pulse of not only corporate fundraising but other income streams too.  

This series of workshops will increase your confidence in  fundraising with corporates. You will hear first-hand from fundraisers who have tried out new ways of working, they will share their triumphs and their failures, so you can take away the learnings and try them out at your own charity. There will also be business owners sharing the benefits they've gained from partnerships and some product suppliers who have great offerings that can assist your corporate fundraising.

These webinars will help you get ahead of many other organisations, and enable you to  start offering something special to your corporates in the next few weeks