Telephone fundraising
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What is it?
If you have supporters who have given you permission to call them, then you can make phone calls with specific appeals for funding.
Good reasons to try telephone fundraising
- As part of a strategy of building relationships with your supporters to increase their donations
- If you can set up the process of taking payments online
- If you think your target supporters will prefer it to methods or it will get through to them better
Key advice
- Make sure you train the people making the calls carefully.
- Use the Chartered Institute of Fundraising guide to make a plan.
- Follow the Code of Fundraising practice. A new version of the Code will come into effect in November 2025.
Last reviewed: 18 November 2020
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