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Tag Archives: NatWest
Improving your fundraising hit-rate
This article first appeared on The Guardian’s Voluntary Sector Network. Do you play the National Lottery? Why ever not, given that you could win a few million pounds which I dare say you’d find pretty handy? Probably because the odds … Continue reading
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Tagged charity, corporate philanthropy, donation, donor, Fund-raising, Fundraising, impact, NatWest, net grant, net grants, philanthropy, wastage, waste
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Government fund scores new low for charitable funding
Forty three failures for every success. Is the government’s Social Action Fund – which ostensibly helps charities – trying to challenge the National Lottery for startling low probabilities? It would be funny if only it weren’t tragic and irresponsible. And … Continue reading
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Tagged Cabinet Office, charity, Community Force, CommunityForce, donation, donor, Fund-raising, Fundraising, giving, government, impact, NatWest, philanthropy, Social Action Fund
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NatWest’s Community Force programme is crushingly awful
NatWest’s Community Force programme creates huge amounts of waste for charities and doesn’t even reward merit. It’s the worst programme for giving money to charity I’ve ever seen. Here are the larger of my concerns about it: It’s massively wasteful NatWest has … Continue reading
