Door-drops and householders
The battle to save the Staffordshire Hoard.
This emergency appeal captivated the imagination of the public and was so successful that it even closed a few weeks early. This will be a useful read for all fundraisers.
Goderich medical clinic campaign
A really lovely appeal, which shows that it pays to have a couple of direct mail professionals living in your town. In this case, holiday residents Mary Attfield and Steve Thomas set about organising a simple but effective local appeal to make sure local people could have access to their own doctors.
Albert Street Methodist Sunday School, from the 1930s: the foot of pennies
A small yet colourful part of England’s fundraising heritage had been discovered in a Methodist chapel about to be demolished. As their finder explains, these fun feet of pennies are engagement devices designed to make collecting for charity easy and so to hook neophytes into the habit of giving.
St Paul’s letter to the Corinthians
Is this the world’s earliest ever recorded mention of fundraising? Or do you know different?
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