Fundraising through trusts and foundations involves identifying projects that need funding and writing applications to suitable trusts and foundations to try and get them to fund you. Trusts and foundations vary in size and what they will fund. The videos in this section introduce the topic of trust fundraising and are intended to help increase your confidence to engage more with fundraising in this manner.

Video 1: Trust fundraising for rare disease patient groups

In this video, Beth Upton from Money Tree Fundraising introduces the topic of trust fundraising for rare disease patient groups, by the end of the video you should have a better understanding of:

• How to ensure organisational readiness for trust fundraising
• How to find trust and foundation fundraising opportunities
• How to keep track of your applications
• What goes into a case for support?

Video 2: Identifying fundraising opportunities- Getting your work ready for applications

In this video, Rick Thompson, CEO at Findacure discusses how to get your work ready for fundraising applications, by the end of the video you should have a better understanding of:

• How to build and communicate your organisational appeal in funding applications
• The difference between project and organisational funding
• How to build projects and budgets
• The basics of monitoring and evaluating

Video 3: Identifying fundraising opportunities- Finding trusts and foundations to apply to

In this video, Laura Thompson, Fundraising Manager at Findacure focuses on what trusts and foundations are and how to find ones to apply to, by the end of the video you should have a better understanding of:

• What trusts and foundations are
• The different types of funding offered
• Where to look
• Your eligibility for applications
• How to communicate with funders

Video 3: Writing a succesful funding application

In this video, Lindsay Harrod from the FSI, covers how to write successful funding application to ensure the greatest chance of obtaining funds, by the end of this video you should have a better understanding of:

• Knowing what funders are looking for and targeting this in your applications
• Developing your application
• How to identify your need and ask
• How to define and express the solution to the need
• How to respond to successful or rejected applications

This video includes interactive elements and we encourage you to take part in these to benefit from the full impact of the training.