Our next ChangeStar Friday Fundraising call will be at 11am on Friday 8th July 2022! We’ll be speaking to the hugely experienced charity fundraiser and Chief Executive Karen Gallagher about ‘How to build a successful Individual Giving programme’. If you’d like to grab a FREE place, reply to this email now or email richard@changestar.co.uk. It … Continued

In this session our Director, Richard Docwra, is joined by is joined by James Huitson – Senior Global Fundraising Manager at Care International – to discuss ‘How to transform your income from legacies’. Many charities still aren’t making the most of their legacy fundraising and their opportunities to gain gifts in wills. In this session … Continued

We’re delighted to announce details of our next ChangeStar Friday Fundraising call on 11am on Friday 11th February 2022! We’ll be speaking to James Huitson – Senior Global Fundraising Manager at Care International – about a subject that many charities feel they could be doing better – ‘How to transform your income from legacies’. If … Continued

In this session our Director, Richard Docwra, is joined by Paul White, Head of Donor Care at Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT) to explore ‘How to build an Individual Giving programme at a hospital charity’. Over the last few years, Paul and his team (with the help of ChangeStar) have built an IG programme that has … Continued

We’re delighted to say that, by popular demand, our Friday Fundraising Calls are coming back!On the first Friday of every month (or thereabouts) at 11am we’ll be hosting an online event to bring fundraisers together and share some ideas and insights on how to do fundraising better.In each episode we’ll be joined by senior, experienced … Continued

Hello and happy New Year! I hope you managed to have a good break over Christmas even if things were rather different. At ChangeStar we’re feeling refreshed and ready to take on the year ahead! Below we share 5 things we think are crucial for all fundraisers to do this year, whatever 2021 holds in … Continued

It’s not easy being a fundraiser. All that asking. All that rejection. And in the middle of all that, getting the materials and investment needed to put the appeals together in the first place. But fear not – in this blog post we’ll provide some ideas and inspiration to help you tackle 5 of the … Continued

As this challenging summer draws to an end, our focus as fundraisers has turned to Christmas. It’s hard to know where we’ll be at the end of this year but one thing is certain – Christmas fundraising appeals this year are going to be more important than ever for most charities. The sector has been … Continued

Last month, we wrote our first blog post to try to take stock of the coronavirus crisis for anyone involved in the world of fundraising, politics and social change, and offer some assistance and ideas. Here’s our second offering. These ideas and types of assistance will change as the situation develops, but please get in … Continued