Posted by Adrian on 30 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: OSCR, Charities, HMRC
The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) inherited the responsibility for the list of Scottish charities from HMRC in April of this year. Since then they have been working hard to ‘clean up’ the list and establish an accurate register. So far they have confirmed the details and status of 20,000 charities, but 6,000 […]
Posted by Adrian on 23 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Smaller charities, Fundraising_Technology, Online
Another way to grow your army of supporters – be that actual financial supporters or people who talk about the vital work you do and create a buzz, is to capitalise on the social networking phenomenon. A charity to have done this is Epilepsy Action who have put up their own page on myspace.com, and already […]
Posted by Adrian on 22 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Smaller charities, Charities, Online
Donor Power blog has solemnly announced ‘The end of branding as we know it’. I agree things have to change, but certainly not die. I have already spoken about the importance of ‘word of mouth’ marketing in the reputation of a charity. After all, why have a marketing department if, through your actions, you can […]
Posted by Adrian on 22 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Philanthropy, Fundraising_Technology, Online, Fundraising Campaigns
As reported by UK Fundraising, a survey by Continental Research has found that 7% of internet users in the UK have made an online donation in the last year. This is down from last year, which peaked due to the response to the Asian Tsunami appeals. I think an opportunity has been missed to capitalise […]
Posted by Adrian on 21 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Philanthropy, Smaller charities, Fundraising_Technology, HMRC, Online, Gift Aid
It has been reported that research by the Institute of Fundraising has found that 4 out of 10 small charities fail to claim Gift Aid on the donations they receive. 39% of those with an income of under £100,000 did not make a single Gift Aid claim during the last year.
This is utter madness and […]
Posted by Adrian on 16 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Government, Charities
Concern has been raised at the impact the spiraling cost predictions of London hosting the 2012 Olympic Games will have on National Lottery grants for charities. Since 1995 the National Lottery has made grants totally over £17billion to worthy causes. The government is hoping that some of these grants can, in the future, be directed […]