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Looking for recommendations for printers who can help with direct mail printing and posting in the UK. Cheap as for charity. Thanks!
Emily Woffindin
Hi there, I have been asked to incorporate a way to donate on our website and have been looking for options, but just wondered if anyone had any recommendations through experience, I know PayPal offe...
Catherine Fenwick
I recently stepped into the charity sector, working in MarComms. It's my first time, and I'm the sole member of my MarComms department. Needless to say, it's been a bit of a learning curve! I could r...
Maya Taylor
Hello everyone, Today's quote is from a charity giver. It's their response to a Reddit post on which charity to choose. "" I agree that a wide spread of charities is good but , having very little mon...
Craig Schoolkate
Hi all We're in discussion with a web developer who's sent us a shortlist of options for our website back end. Continue to use WordPress, £0/mo Move to Framer, £4+/mo (scalable) Move to SquareSpace,...
Edward Bainton
For the first time in 20 years there's a new type of ad campaign in Google Ad Grants. Which would be great, except the rollout is taking place over several months and most accounts still don't have i...
Hello everyone, I have recently registered my CIC and would be grateful if you could give me any suggestions on where to get a cost effective website. I am trying to find bank account options too but...
Georgia Barrett
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We use Raiser's Edge NXT for direct marketing comms, but our fundraising team constantly disagree with us over fundam...
Ocean King
Hi, wonder if anyone can help. Can I use images in a report that got from the internet, without having to get permission and pay copyright fees? We are a charity & it's a report about an issue that w...
Khalida Khan
As a small charity, we have a small following. We have signed up to Run for Charity and have a lot of interesting events, but are struggling with getting people to sign up. Has anyone got any advice...
Alex Withers
I was just thinking that there are some really great campaigns out there that I've seen over the last few months, so I thought I'd share some of my favourites while also opening up the conversation t...
Ocean King
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for marketing grants/free advertising available to nonprofits? I know that there have been threads about this before, but they all look to be quite o...
Rosa Balliro
Good afternoon, I'm looking for anyone who can help me finalise my value proposition for my charity as it's one of the biggest barriers I'm facing at the moment. The value proposition will be printed...
Luke Roberts
We've just found out that our domain host will no longer offer hosting services from the end of May (😖), so I need to find a new one asap. Does anyone have any recommendations, which web domain host...
Hazel Munn
Hello Our charity has a subscription to Hubspot but we're not getting the best value out of it because the (small) team don't know how to use it effectively, and none of us has a chunk of time to lea...
Fiona McAuslan
Hello, has anyone created any audio ads or tried podcast advertising? Do you have an idea of how much would that cost We are thinking to either create a 60 second audio or give a script for the host...
Hamza Hassan
Where do you take images for blog or charity website? I need high quality pictures - does anyone have any suggestions?
john smith
Hi We are in the process of building a new Drupal based website for our global membership charity and deliberating on what cookie consent manager to go with?  Does anybody have any recommendations? W...
Debs Waller
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I'm interested in finding out if anyone is using SMS for their legacy audience, and if so how? E.g. reminders to cont...
Ocean King
Hi folks,  I work for a great charity that delivers programmes in schools. One of my biggest headaches has been getting schools interested and responding, which got me thinking about what a better wa...
Cedric Fromageot
I am going to order 1000 wristbands for our charity. Any recommendations for suppliers worth trying would be very welcome. I've started with  https://thewristbandcompany.co.uk/  from a first pass on...
Evan Grant
Hi - we're looking for a freelance marketing person who is experienced at developing public awareness campaigns - for a under-represented, but common (top 10 in UK) cancer.  Any recommendations or su...
Jeannie Rigby
Does anyone know if it's possible to generate a simple URL for people to access your charity's page on the charity commission register? I usually just hyperlink the page from the 'charity search' fun...
Caroline Walker
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We had 2FA set up on one phone and it was lost which meant that we lost the 2FA account. Now we're locked out of the...
Ocean King
I wonder if any of you lovely people could help me with some practical examples of KPIs for a health awareness/information campaign. I'm really stumped.  The campaign is about awareness/avoiding risk...
Thomas D
Hi all, Im looking to source some training on the intricacies of PECR. Can anyone recommend a good trainer for this please?
Carolyn Clarke
Hi there.  What promotional marketing materials have you found to be the best value for money? I was thinking of trolley coins.What are your thoughts on this?
Elizabeth Laing
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Is anyone aware of any good training courses for charities on marketing your services to paid customers - especially those in the public sector (NHS, LAs)?
Eleanor McMahon
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