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National Lottery Awards for All (AWA) Funding - Grant Application Guide

National Lottery Awards for All (AWA) Funding - Grant Application Guide The National Lottery Awards for All funding (AfA) is a great first grant application for charities and community groups, with up to £20,000 on offer and a good success rate. This funding guide provides a template that simplifies all the instructions, and a whole […]

Freelance Charity Bid Writer

How to Promote Yourself as a Freelance Charity Bid Writer Our free Charity Excellence Funding Finder grants directory is very popular and has a search category for professional freelance charity bid writers that enables users searching our grants to also search for experienced bid writers to write grant applications. We charge a small fee for […]

CPA Solicitation Statement

What is a CPA Solicitation Statement? A CPA solicitation statement is the disclosure that a commercial participator must make when promoting a fundraising campaign in partnership with a charity. A commercial participator is a company which advertises that a portion of sales or proceeds will be donated to a charity. It can be given verbally […]

Fundraising Agreement Template - Commercial Participation

Fundraising Agreement Template - Commercial Participation This guide provides a Commercial Participator Agreement template that can also be used for other fundraising agreements with companies. What is a Commercial Participation Agreement? A commercial participator agreement is a written contract between a charity and a company, required by the Fundraising Regulator, that outlines how they will […]

Better Together Campaign

Better Together Campaign - Charities Helping Charities Our charity campaign offers free promotion to non profits that provide goods or services to other non profits, either free or charged for. We also promote infrastructure charities, networks and groups to help people support and learn from each other. In particular, small charities and marginalised groups often […]

AI Bid Writing Best Practice

AI Bid Writing Best Practice We think the use of AI in bid writing has the power to help level the playing field of grant making processes that often result in small charities being less able to secure funding. However, we think that there is a significant risk of some grant makers either banning its […]

UK Give as You Earn Scheme - How to Set Up GAYE Payroll Giving

UK Give as You Earn Scheme - Setting Up GAYE Payroll Giving A simple guide to the UK Give as You Earn scheme - what is GAYE, the benefits, how to find a company and agency, and set up a payroll giving scheme. Since 2015/16, employee charity donations from salary through the give as you […]

Charity Excellence CRM System Benchmarking Survey 2025

Charity Excellence CRM System Benchmarking Survey 2025 We have an existing charity CRM system guide on how to find a free charity CRM and choose the best CRM for charities, including a lot more detailed guidance on what you need to think about in choosing and migrating a CRM. This guide presents the results of […]

Grant Making Charity Foundations and Trusts Benchmarking Survey 2025

Grant Making Charity Foundations and Trusts Benchmarking Survey 2025 Our Charity Grant Making Foundation and Trust Survey invited charities to tell us what they most wanted from them, and to also rate the main grant makers based on the information and application process, and to nominate the grant making teams who are most helpful and […]

Gift in Kind Donations

Gift in Kind Donations This gift in kind donations guide explains the meaning of in kind donations, how in-kind donations from companies work and how to get the most from these. You can use our free Help Finder directory to source company gifts in kind, as well as financial donations. Use its search categories for […]

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