The W.G. Edwards Charitable Foundation is a UK‑based grant‑making charity that focuses on improving the lives of older people (aged 65+) by supporting registered charities to deliver capital or innovative community projects. Priority themes they want to fundThey fund capital projects such as refurbishment, equipment or furniture for older people’s services, plus innovative community programmes […]
Category: social media
Social Media – tips for growing your audience
Six tips for growing your audience with mobile and social from Just Giving 1. Be where the people are – Don’t forget mobile use, by 2013 60% of people had made purchase on Smartphone 2. Look at *your* analytics – your your analytics package to identify how your users are accessing your information 3. Make giving […]
Digital Fundraising
The Institute of Fundraising has a series of Webinars available that cover a range of digital fundraising topics. They are free to access and last around 50 mins each. Getting started in digital fundraising (20 June 2012) Creating a digital fundraising strategy (18 July 2012) How to increase donations through your website (18 September 2012) How to fundraise […]
Also from O2 – Think Big resource page
The Think Big Resource Page – linked to the Think Big project is this useful mini site containing lots of useful information and ideas to help build a project. Information includes Web development – – range of site development tools Social Media – managing and using social media Communication – tools to help sharing ideas […]
Social Media Revolution
Here is a link to this short video which highlights just how much social media has become a part of our lives. Well worth a look. IT is full of great statistics to show just how significant Social media is in our lives. Simple facts like more people own mobile phones than a toothbrush! >
Social Media Week on Youtube
This is a series of videos from last year on the use of social media http://www.youtube.com/user/SMWGlasgow/videos There are 19 videos that cover a wide range of issues from Blogging for beginners, to Crowdfunding to Digital Audience Development. Most are fairly short, presentations and give really useful tips and advice, well worth a look
Digital Donors
The Digital Donor Review, published by online giving platform Give As You Live is a survey of 8,000 digital donors and has identified six digital donor types which may help charities plan their online campaigns more effectively. It looks a why and how people give and should help plan digital giving campaigns. A summary of the […]
Beginners Guide to fundraising using social media
This gives a useful tips to help get you started with or improve your fundraising using social media.
Online Fundraising
For those interested in online fundraising; before you get too carried away with it as a way to solving your financial problems, first use social media and online networks to build up the engagement with followers, find where people are talking about you and join those forums / groups and steer supporters to your website. […]
15 great social media campaigns
These campaigns are from the US, but still useful over hear and give a good range of campaigns that could be adapted, but also demonstrate the power social media has as a fundraising tool http://www.sumac.com/social-media-campaigns