The Institute of Fundraising has launched an ongoing campaign to ensure that fundraising is recognised in future volunteering initiatives.
Substantial numbers of volunteers are fundraisers - the 2008 NCVO Civil Society Almanac highlighted that approximately two thirds of all volunteers in the UK raise and handle money. This suggests an equivalent of 660,000 full time fundraising employees and substantial additional income to their respected organisations.
Volunteering remains a top priority across Government. Engaging the public in volunteering to increase outputs across a range of sectors and improve civil society is key to many public policy agendas. Yet, despite all this energy, volunteer fundraising is rarely acknowledged as a significant and valuable volunteering activity.
Prompted by the launch of the Department of Health's consultation, 'Towards a Strategy to Support Volunteering in Health and Social Care', which will also act as a blueprint to inform other Government-led initiatives, the Institute is encouraging fundraising organisations whose work is supported by the efforts of volunteer fundraisers, to complete a survey about volunteer fundraising in their organisations.
Raise Your Voice
To contribute to the Institute's consultation response, please complete one of the surveys below. The survey findings will help provide the evidence base of the Institute's submission to the consultation to ensure that the huge contribution that volunteer fundraisers make, both in the NHS and more generally, are acknowledged and take the campaign forward in the future.
Responses are invited until 12 September 2008.
Take the online survey - I work for a health care organisation
Take the online survey - I do not work for a health care organisation
