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What’s on the menu?

In person: PLEASE NOTE All attendees must book a ticket
New location: St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Ln, London, EC4Y 8EQ

New: added workshops! Work with professional coaches to overcome fundraising, career, and wellbeing challenges.

Time: Doors at 11am, event ends at 5pm BST

Online: Fundraising Everywhere Members only – become one here!

“I had a great time at Pizza for Losers, and have never been gladder to have signed up for an event. What a refreshing take on a charity conference” – Jenny Benson

“Absolutely fantastic event. I don’t think I’ve ever attended an event like this where every speaker was so open and honest. It created such an honest, relaxed, and supportive atmosphere – needed in a sector that we all so clearly love” – Danielle St Romaine

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Tell me more!

Join Pizza for Losers on June 30th 2026 to be uplifted and inspired by the real fundraising fails lurking behind the success we see highlighted across the sector.

That charity campaign raising millions? Failed horrendously on its first launch.

That speaker you see crushing it? Had their confidence shattered by multiple job rejections.

During the afternoon, our speakers will share their failure stories, taking you through what they learned about themselves – and their approach to failure – from the experience.

Then we all cheer, eat pizza, and settle the pineapple debate once and for all.

We’ll also be covering some science-y bits about why our brains work the way they do and what to do about it, and run some workshops so you take away practical tools for overcoming (and avoiding) fundraising, career, and wellbeing fails.

You’ll leave with:

🍕 a failure menu toolkit to act as your guide to managing failure, overwhelm, and self-doubt

🍕 skills to build and grow a safe working environment that encourages innovation and growth

🍕 the confidence to innovate or move forward with your fundraising goals

🍕 a higher sense of wellbeing and emotional safety

🍕 a feeling of community and connection to the sector and people within it

🍕 the knowledge of what to do – and what not to do – when things don’t work out

🍕 the confidence to push yourself that little bit further to be the best that you can be

And who knows? Maybe one of our speakers will share a fundraising story very similar to your own and you’ll know what you have to do next.

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Event info

• This is an in-person event at an accessible venue
• Quiet spaces are provided for attendees to take a break
• We are live-streaming the main talks which are available exclusively online for FE Members only. You can become one here
• Please email nikki@fundraisingeverywhere.com before June 2nd if you need BSL support or slides ahead of the event
• Pizza will be served! Tell us about any dietary needs using the form in your confirmation email. No pineapple though, obvs
• This event is alcohol free. Soft drinks are provided

Partnership opportunities

If you’d like to sponsor this event there are a couple of places remaining, please email nikki@fundraisingeverywhere.com