Fundraising and Prospect Research

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CHALLENGES YOU MAY FACE

As the funding climate gets tougher, many third sector organisations have started to explore new sources of income. Many statutorily-funded organisations are looking to private sources of funds for the first time. Building this search on robust research increases the chances of success.

OUR EXPERTISE

Our specialist research team has extensive experience in researching trusts, foundations, high net worth individuals, companies, and government funding programmes, both here in the UK and more widely – our work for clients has included research into the US, EU, Middle East, Asia and Australasia.

Expert help to find that funder who is just right for you

- Are there high net worth individuals hidden on our database?
- Can our organisation access funding from the US or the EU?
- Have we identified all the trusts and foundations that might support our organisation?
Where can we find major donors who might be interested in our cause?
We’re starting from scratch – what should we do first?

We offer a full range of fundraising research services, including:
- Wealth Intelligence – with our partners Prospecting for Gold, we use the Wealth Intelligence database of 250,000 known high net worth individuals to identify potential donors to your cause.
- Trust and foundation profiling, giving you all the information you need to develop an application.
- Identifying the statutory funding programmes that are available for you.
- Looking further afield, with research into funders outside the UK.

- Our Wealth Intelligence service can match your database against 250,000 known high net worth individuals, identifying the ones that support you.
- Let us help you to find other sources of income. We can access details of thousands of grants from US trusts to UK causes, and have experts in EU funding to identify potential funding opportunities for you.
- We often help organisations identify new or additional trusts that might support your cause – tell us who you already know about, and we can look for others.
- Using our Wealth Intelligence service, we can identify high net worth individuals who are not known to you, but have a connection to your cause.
- Let’s talk! We help lots of organisations who are seeking grants for the first time perhaps to diversify their funding, or as part of a capital project.

Why Action Planning?

Working with us, you receive all the advantages of an expert research team, access to visionary fundraisers and a successful bidwriting team to help you make best use of our research.

How We Have Supported Others

I was very pleased with the research Action Planning did for us looking for potential sponsors in the Middle East and North Africa with an interest in funding Education focussed projects. It complemented work we had done internally and has provided our centres in the region with a strong base to pursue partnership and sponsorship opportunities.