Don’t be a Fundraising Wall-flower this Small Charity Week!

As Fundraising Week draws to a close, the team at the Foundation for Social Improvement (FSI) wanted to highlight some of the fundraising opportunities open to small charities and community organisations this Small Charity Week (19-24 June).

The FSI was established to support the small charity sector with free and very heavily subsidised support and training to ensure the sustainability of these organisations. Small Charity Week is just one of the programmes we provide with the aim of supporting small charities across the UK. During Small Charity Week we work alongside a range of partners and sponsors to pull out all of the stops to offer a wide range of opportunities and events to help you fundraise and improve your fundraising knowledge.

Fundraising Day of Small Charity Week takes place on Thursday 22^nd June and we have the following agenda lined up:

• 1.The FSI’s annual Fundraising Conference will take place on the day in London offering 200 small charity delegate places to access fantastic fundraising experts including Stephen George and Rob Woods. Topics covered during the conference include:
• oStorytelling, Major Donor Fundraising, Corporate Fundraising, Practical Digital Fundraising, Enhancing the Donor Experience, Legacy Fundraising, Fundraising Roles and Responsibilities, and CRM Solutions – a relic of the past or essential for the future?

Only limited places are still available so book quickly to secure your place.

• 1.eBay for Charity and PayPal Giving Fund are running an auction during Small Charity Week to help your charity raise vital funds. All you have to do is source your item and they take care of all of the admin whilst providing you with 100% of the funds raised for your charity. Plus there is a £2,000 matched funding pot available for the two highest selling items.
• 2.Want to have your fundraising message appear to eBay shoppers for a week? Now is your chance to win the opportunity with eBay for Charity and PayPal Giving Fund’s competition. All you have to do is submit a 90 character fundraising message by 2^nd June at the latest.
• 3.Fundraising website Leetchi.com have launched a money pot competition offering £50
• towards all fundraising projects, plus one winning charity will receive 100% of funding raised matched to the value of £1,500.
• 4.Localgiving and the FSI are donating £25,000 worth of donations in one day via their matched fund. Starting at 10am on Thursday 22nd June, Localgiving will double one-time donations to local charities pound-for-pound by up to £25! The match fund currently stands at £25,000 and each charity may receive up to a maximum of £250 of match funding through the campaign. They have a series of handy webinars to help you make the most of the initiative. Tune into the next ones on the 31^st May or 8^th June.
• 5.As part of Small Charity Week, Remember A Charity are offering one lucky small charity the chance to win a year’s free membership. Through this your charity would benefit from a high-profile national campaign that promotes your charity, partnerships with the Will-writing sector, resources for your legacy strategy plus more.
• 6.United Way will be giving grants of up to £1,000 through its Give Local funding programme to small charities in almost 30 communities across the UK. The deadline to apply is 30^th June.
• 7.Last but not least, the FSI have some free downloadable toolkits to support you to run your own fundraising activities – this includes a guide to running your own fundraising quiz and support on fundraising in your local community.

We hope there is an initiative available that small charities can use to support their fundraising, whether it’s attending our conference or running their own quiz night to engage supporters. We would love to hear about your fundraising successes and how you have been able to use Small Charity Week to your advantage, just tweet us on @SCWeek2017 drop us a note on our Facebook page or email will@thefsi.org.

If you are running your own events we will help to promote these for you on the Small Charity Week website. Don’t forget the week includes six days of separate activities, check out the full agenda to make sure you’re not missing out.

www.smallcharityweek.com