As a direct consequence of COVID-19 and its effect on fundraising, the British Heart Foundation is predicting that its annual research budget will be cut by £50 million this year.
Charity retail shops and community fundraising are very important to BHF, and of course both of these have been hard hit by the pandemic and the lockdown measures. You can read BHF’s article here but there is a lesson here for us all.
I hope that you have been planning for fundraising in the ‘new normal’ and keeping your board updated with expectations, so that they can adapt the services to beneficiaries. Do make sure you have a look at the Fundraising Regulator’s latest advice on restarting public fundraising, and plan for as wide a range of fundraising methods as possible.