The Confluencers - A community for non-profit leaders and fundraisers.

UK small charity executives have small fundraising teams and are overworked. How they tell their impact story & approach donors can make or break their funding budget.

Small charities are often left underfunded and undervalued, but I believe every small charity can get and deserves considerate, long term and unrestricted funding.

The trouble is, we can only make decisions based on the information and experience we have access to. If we keep founding our actions and fundraising decisions on the same beliefs and values that created todays challanges , or spend all our time trying different strategies "hoping one will stick" we are more likely to burn out and keep fueling lopsided power dynamics that keep small charities financially insecure.

You all deserve trusting, flexible, understanding and supportive fundraising relationships that put Non-Profits back in the driving seat. I guess that might be why you landed on this page?

I founded The Confluencers UK Small Charity Execs Community and Roadmap to Self Reliance Programme to bring together peers to cheer you on and support you along this journey. You don't have to struggle with fundraising questions alone. Instead you can get resources, tested tools, ideas in our small community.

Together we can change the sector and demand equitable, trust based empowering philanthropy.

If discovering our world of tested tools, donor relationship case studies, frank conversations where we unpack whats working, Impact Narratives, core funding tricks and Relational Impact Based Fundraising sounds fun. Then you've found your tribe.

I can't wait to welcome you.

“Working with Anna was a dream! She is the most thorough, passionate and committed consultant we have ever come across and she provides a pricesless product. People are 'getting' us now very quickly. We do a lot less explaining and a lot more building. Funders are interviewing us, local organisations want to partner with us and people are signing up for our programmes on a daily basis. All and all we have so much more organic activity than we ever had, and it really has everything to do with the new messaging.”

“I wanted to increase the grant income. The programme made me realise that we needed to partner with grant-makers to achieve our objectives and that we had it in our power to reset the rules. Our income has almost tripled in 18 months. The Confluencers showed us the power of demonstrating our impact, and gave us the freedom to do things our way. It also opened my eyes to the uncomfortable power dynamics between applicant/grantee and funder - and showed me that we could shift those by behaving differently. I've just come off a call with a large funder asking them what they are doing to improve board diversity in our sector. 18 months ago, I wouldn't have dreamed of doing that!”

“Fundraising is no longer stressful because I am no longer just throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. Our fundraising activities were intertwined with networking, making it hard to gauge what was/wasn't effective and how we could move from the 'waves' to having a more steady stream of funding. I am now more targeted in my approach, I know what I want to achieve, what works and what doesn’t. I am no longer shooting in the dark. I know when I have done enough outreach and have started listening to funders and letting them ask the questions. Connecting with funders is a lot easier than one thinks!”

Don’t face fundraising challenges alone…

How about we shake things up and try something different?

This is a sneak peak of what you will find

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