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Funding and fundraising
Finding funders, writing applications, and the rules on every other way charities raise money.
Fundraising is among the most regulated things a charity does and one of the least regulated-feeling. Street collections need a licence. A society lottery needs registration, though a raffle run at your own event does not. Working with a professional fundraiser needs a written agreement containing specific terms, and without one the fundraiser has no right to be paid at all.
The grant-writing steps are about the application itself: what an assessor is actually scoring, what full cost recovery means in practice, and why most rejections are settled before anyone reaches your case for support.
Understand
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Glossary
- Grant
- Charities SORP
- Board of trustees
- Outcomes
- Restricted funds
- Governing document
- Impact
- Contract
- Outputs
- Public benefit
- Designated funds
- Legacy
- Safeguarding
- Beneficiaries
- Charitable purpose
Tools
- Do I need a collection permit? — Tool: planned
- Full cost recovery calculator — Tool: planned
- Funder finder
- Grant finder
- Grant or contract checker — Tool: planned
- Income concentration calculator — Tool: planned
- Is my raffle lawful? — Tool: planned
Templates
- Application tracker — Template: planned
- Case for support — Template: planned
- Criteria map — Template: planned
- Event compliance checklist — Template: planned
- Full cost recovery — Template: planned
- Funder profile pack — Template: planned
- Funder shortlist — Template: planned
- Grant agreement review checklist — Template: planned
- Income map — Template: planned
- Lottery compliance check — Template: planned
- Monitoring evaluation plan — Template: planned
- Need statement — Template: planned
- Outputs and outcomes — Template: planned
- Professional fundraiser agreement checklist — Template: planned
- Project budget — Template: planned