If we build it, they will come (and fundraise)!

How many times have you come back from a training course, or been inspired by some reading, and wanted to build your learning into your fundraising work but not been able to do so easily, if at all? How many times have you thought a chart might be useful to you, but then had to spend ages reproducing it in an accessible format so you can type into it and apply it to your work? How many times have you needed a worksheet or proforma that gives you a starting point to help you prepare for, or analyse, your fundraising, whether it’s getting ready for an important meeting or building your case for support? How many times have you needed to build or rebuild a spreadsheet to help you, for example, to set your budget, analyse Return On Investment or monitor your fundraising performance? When I was preparing and collating the Charity Fundraising Templates resource this year, my motivation was thinking about all of that fundraising time that could be saved by having ready–made tools to hand. I thought to myself: if we build it, people will come (and fundraise)! And so the main aim behind the publication is to gather a wide variety of practical fundraising templates into one place so that you do not have to spend that time searching for and building those tables, forms, charts and worksheets. Instead, you can devote yourself to doing what makes your own work unique: developing your fundraising and actually getting on with it. Rather than a single person taking resp