Save the date!
Trusts and Major Donors 2025 is back
Your favourite conference is back!
Dropping into your inboxes today to shout about Fundraising Everywhere’s Trusts and Major Donor conference which is back back back for 2025!
Any excuse for Caroline to break out the Pinkie Pie GIFs
This is Caroline’s third year of curating this conference with the brilliant Beth Upton (of Money Tree Fundraising fame).
Look at our little faces!
As always, our goal is to keep the content focused on practical, actionable take aways so you can up level your fundraising with immediate effect.
This year, you’ll get to learn about:
Finding and researching major donor prospects (without fear of messing up the GDPR bits)
The anatomy of a successful proposal
How to become an accounts detective (using those annual reports to make important research discoveries)
A practical creative writing sesh (any excuse for a brand new journal!)
A guide to getting on the radar of those pesky pro-active funders
We also have an awesome pre-conference ‘Ask the Experts’ workshop with the most incredible panel (this session is free to attend!), plus a Trusts and Major Gifts Positivity Party where we invite fundraisers to share what’s going well for them and what they’re excited about for 2026.
As well as the incredible content and top brass speakers, you’ll enjoy
Community, connection and chat!
Ease of access - it’s all online - ideal for December when no-one’s realistically getting off the sofa (unless your snacks need a refill or someone’s run you a hot bath)
Great value – AND there’s a discount code
Sessions and speakers will be confirmed and announced in the coming months (and in the style of Wagamama, they won’t all arrive at the same time).
Want to join us?
YASSSSS! We’re so excited!
Here’s everything you need to know:
Date - Thursday 11 December
Time - 12 – 4pm GMT
Catering - It’s online so BYO (ours is likely to be an eggnog and a Terry’s Chocolate Orange)
Cost - Free for Fundraising Everywhere members or just £75. You can use the promo code LARKOWL15 for 15% off!
Who the hell are Fundraising Everywhere?
The team at Fundraising Everywhere are completely fantastic people. They’d never say so themselves of course, they’re far too modest.
Fundraising Everywhere have solid policies regarding inclusion that they ACTUALLY live by. This means:
paying every single one of their speakers, meaning that people who cannot afford to speak for free are not excluded from sharing their knowledge with others.
actively seeking out new voices and perspectives, prioritising experts from diverse backgrounds who have thus far been excluded from a traditionally very white / hetero / ableist sector.
being conscious of the environmental impact of their work and take action to mitigate their carbon use.
providing scholarships, training and free content for people working for charities with limited budgets.
All of this not only results in better training, but it encourages others to meet new basic standards of decency and humanity. Something we can all sign up to.
We hope that you’ll want to join us at Trusts and Major Donors 2025!
Tony and Caroline
p.s. this email is littered with affiliate links. If you can spot them all, you win a Terry’s Chocolate Orange*
*only kidding