From an article published by the Chartered Institute of Fundraising, some charities may benefit from exclusions in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCCA), recently confirmed by the UK government. This generally affects charities that have charitable memberships and if this may apply to you, we recommend the CIoF article https://ciof.org.uk/news-policy-and-research/latest-news/certain-charitable-memberships-to-be-excluded-from-new-subscriptions-law which includes […]
Fundraising
HNW insights
The Chartered Institute of Fundraising (CIoF) reported on a recent Beacon Philanthropy Forum where 600 stakeholders, including charities, government representatives, professional advisors and philanthropists, came together to explore how to strengthen philanthropy through better partnerships and innovation. There was a particular focus on High Net Worth (major donor) partnerships. You can read the key points with the […]
Faith-based giving and the Code
The Fundraising Regulator has just published a blog on religiously motivated giving. It offers many insights and is designed to help faith-based charities understand their responsibilities under the Code, including the importance of trustee responsibility, clear complaints processes and appropriate safeguards in faith communities. You can read the entire blog at https://www.fundraisingregulator.org.uk/about-fundraising/resources/supporting-faith-based-charities-apply-code-confidence. Perhaps this would be good […]
The switch from SEO to AEO may affect web engagement
As we reported a while ago, increasing numbers of people are switching from using search engines to AI tools. Search engines are countering this by showing AI overviews at the top of their results screens, but click-through rates to websites can be significantly lower. So the challenge is for your organisation to be prominent in […]
Short break
We normally prepare these insights on a Friday for sending the following week, so we will be taking a one-week break for Easter.