Welcome to the Trusts & Foundations 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.

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.

Are you curious about building meaningful relationships with grant funders? Tune in to this session to learn my top three strategies for institutional donor cultivation and much more! I’ll be your grant writing coach for half an hour and guide you to success!

In 2022 LwP and IG Group finalised a £750k, 3-year strategic partnership around financial literacy. This session will explore how that came about and why the partnership is so strategically beneficial to both organisations.

Panel discussion on innovations in grant fundraising.

This talk will break down the skills and techniques we actually need for good research, focusing on those issues that perhaps are most overlooked.

In this session, you’ll hear about what keeps Nirali motivated in her role and in philanthropy fundraising, and what have been the biggest drivers of success at Prostate Cancer UK during a period of immense change in the organisation.

Getting invitation-only funders to take notice isn’t quick or easy, but it is possible. Over the years I’ve seen charities do this brilliantly, and helped organisations to open doors that they previously thought were bolted firmly shut.

This session is a journey from anger to hope. It’s a (short) rant about the state of the world followed by some practical advice for continuing a successful fundraising practice, despite the challenges in the world around us. It’s for tired fundraisers, who still have the spark of a flame inside them and want to do the best they can with what they have.

The session will be presented by Fozia Irfan OBE, who has led the BBC Children in Need team, through the process of a new strategy and grantmaking process and is known for advocating for more equitable funding practices.

In this panel discussion, we will be: Chatting through the complexities of the situation, Dissecting strategies that trust fundraisers can employ to navigate this turbulent period, and Giving you tangible top tips to move forward in your trust fundraising

Watch the Grants and Major Donors Conference 20225 on demand for case studies and best practice to help you succeed.

This session explores how you win the hearts and minds of your Executive Team and Trustees by using data, insights and story telling.

Our global panel of experts will draw on decades of experience and insight perspective to share their predictions, and tell you what you need to consider when developing your trusts and foundations proposals going forward.

This session will look at three simple steps you can take to make your proposal stand out from the (ever-growing) mountain of paper on the Grant Manager’s desk.

Referencing the UK Government’s Green Book on project appraisal and evaluation, this practical and evidence-based session will draw on lessons from the HM Treasury process for developing ‘Five Case’ business cases and will offer advice on how we can all present the strongest possible case for support for our shared historic environment.