Compton consultants bring a wealth of hands-on experience in all aspects of these platforms to help your organisation put in place a comprehensive, well-managed and cost effective fundraising operation.

Annual appeals (Operational Funding)
Not-for-profit organisations require committed and sustained support from friends who give more generously every year in order to make sure that operating expenses are met. Indeed, they also need to build new friendships.You can retain our specialist consultants to work with you to develop any or all aspects of your annual appeal:

- Developing an Annual Fundraising Plan

- Design and production of your traditional or new technology promotional materials

- Implementing the right IT systemsStarting up a major gifts, planned giving or direct mail programme

Or you can outsource your annual appeal management to Compton – either way, we’ll give you the very best operational fundraising programme possible.

Capital campaigns

Volunteer-led, person-to-person asking campaigns – geared to raising as much money as possible, as quickly as possible from (initially) the fewest number of prospects for a specific project or programme. Capital campaigns demand detailed planning; the packaging of an attractive and urgent ‘Case for Support’, careful prospect identification and the enlistment and support of a team of volunteer ‘champions’ to give and get financial commitments at the levels needed to achieve the goal.

Mounting a capital campaign will usually involve the residential on-site placement of one or more of our team of campaign managers with your organisation for a period of six, twelve or eighteen months to achieve targets of £500,000 to £50,000,000 … intensive, cost-effective fundraising at its best.

Endowment campaigns

Forward-thinking organisations are establishing meaningful Endowment Funds where the capital is invested in perpetuity. The earnings are then used to implement new projects and provide financial stability.

The most successful means of funding an endowment is through a Legacy fundraising programme. We are witnessing the greatest exchange of wealth from one generation to another in history. Our clients, across a wide range of not-for-profit organisations, are achieving outstanding results from this type of fundraising.

If your organisation does not have a structured and proactive Legacy programme in place, you are missing opportunities to secure its future.