Welcome to the Major Donors Collection

Are you a trusts, grants, or major donor fundraiser that’s looking for a way to define success, increase your impact, and reduce your workload? The Trusts and Major Donor conference is back for another year of shared learning, case studies, and best practice to help you focus on the areas that will help you succeed.

Join Kevin, Kitty and Caroline – three people, right in the thick of it, to discover how they’re coping in the current environment, what’s working for them as well as how they’re equipping themselves for the road ahead.

In a time where many funding sources are drying up and trusts have changed their criteria, we’ll practice one tool that helps generate leads in a holistic community-centered way.

Working with a disability/chronic illness can be very challenging. In this session Emma will talk about how she maintains a successful career in fundraising and volunteering whilst managing her 3 chronic health conditions.

In this session, I will provide you with tips and tricks based on my experience with how to conduct successful prospect research and donor profiling for your organisation.

This session will look at making the most of fundraising that isn’t reliant on having a little black book of contacts.

In this session I will share tops tips on how to make the best of your internal relationships to maximise your fundraised income.

Hear from two recovering perfectionists about how to have your very own sustainable and joyful fundraising career.

The session will share insights into what you should expect from your organisation and what you should do yourself if you experience or receive a report of inappropriate behaviour.

This session will look at integrating across high-value fundraising so you can maximise the fundraising happening on your doorstep.

This quick-moving panel will chat and share insights on how different organisations have found success with donor recruitment. From small orgs to large, online and offline – there’ll be a take-home tip for everyone.

As the fundraising landscape changes along with how we work within it, how we approach fundraising relationships, strategies, and success planning needs to change too.

In this session, I’ll show you how to find and connect with donors, build meaningful connections, and ask for donations without asking.

Jen and Fraser promise that at session’s end you’ll have inspiration, confidence and ability to engage in the legacy conversations – and raise a LOT more money!

In 2022 I commissioned Legacy Voice to undertake some research into high value supporters and legacy giving for UNICEF and am happy to share some of what I have learned. Come and find out, from a fundraisers perspective, what you need to know about this audience, some of their motivations, a surprising competitor right under your nose, and what you might need to think about at your charity.

It’s a widely shared lesson in major donor fundraising: your biggest gift will come from someone you already know, who is already giving.