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Come to Fundraising Camp and spend a day learning, talking about and maybe even solving the issues and challenges you face in your fundraising. Learn from other fundraisers in your area, find out how they've dealt with similar problems, and share your experience. Make some useful contacts and maybe even enjoy a very practical day of sharing fundraising advice. Think of it as those often valuable networking chat sessions you have at normal conferences but for a whole day. No tents involved Fundraising Camp is a one-day 'unconference'-style event for fundraisers, the first series of its kind for fundraisers in the UK. We've run 13 since the first one in Oxford in 2013. An unconference is an unstructured conference: there are no set speakers and no set topics. As a participant you are invited to suggest a topic at the beginning of the day. It could be something you know about, it could be a problem or a question you have and you want help on. Be prepared to speak on it - not with a Powerpoint or anything like that (but let us know if you want to). When we all agree the topic sessions at the beginning of the day, chances are there will be others who can join you in the session. Fundraising Camp is informal and relentlessly practical. No-one is coming to judge the quality of how you present. Everyone will be there wanting to improve their fundraising.   What does a Fundraising Camp look like? Sessions The day will be planned out between us in the first half-hour. After that, there will be two, three or four short sessions (30 -45 mins) at any one time running throughout the day. Go to the ones that interest you most. If it's not quite right for you, you're allowed to leave and go to another session. (Try doing that at a regular formal conference!). We encourage participants in each session to take notes of what gets shared and learned, and then for these to be shared online - as a blog post, a video, a photo, or send it to us at UK Fundraising if you prefer.   Rules of Fundraising Camp If there are any rules, then these probably cover it: do join in rather than expect to hide at the back of a conference hall  share what you know at the event  afterwards, share what you learn from the event online e.g. via a blog post  be nice to others, enjoy a different kind of event  no commercial selling - only paying sponsors get to run a session about what they offer (and you don't even have to go to those sessions if you don't feel they are relevant)   Experts To each Fundraising Camp we'll invite half a dozen or so local fundraising, business, philanthropy or grantmaking experts to help ensure we've got even more practical fundraising knowledge and experience available at the event.  More Fundraising Camps This is the 14th Fundraising Camp. We plan to run five or six a year all around the UK, including in towns that don't often get a fundraising training course or conference. Can you donate a venue for one in your town in return for free places and publicity? Let us know.   Why 'Fundraising Camp'? We were inspired to run an event like this for fundraisers by events such as Barcamp Nonprofits and MuseumCamp. These focus on the ideas, skills and experience that conference delegates themselves have, but which seldom get shared while they all listen to the speakers. So, we called this new kind of event Fundraising Camp.   Thank you to Fundraising Camp's sponsors Sponsors help to keep our costs down which means we can offer more lower price tickets.  Serving the not-for-profit and education sectors for 30 years, Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) combines technology and expertise to help organisations achieve their missions. Blackbaud works with more than 27,000 customers in more than 60 countries that support higher education, healthcare, human services, arts and culture, faith, the environment, independent education, animal welfare and other charitable causes. We offer a full spectrum of cloud-based and on-premise software solutions and related services for organisations of all sizes including: fundraising, eMarketing, social media, advocacy, customer relationship management (CRM), analytics and vertical-specific solutions.For more information contact us or call us on 0845 658 8590. The Institute of Fundraising is the largest individual representative body in the voluntary sector with over 5,600 Individual members and 470 Organisational members. The IoF aims to support these members and the wider fundraising community by: Creating a better environment for fundraisers to raise money, through policy and support Increasing understanding of fundraising, by being a knowledge centre for fundraiser Enabling fundraisers to be the best they can be, by providing resources, skills development and qualifications RSM 2000 provide flexible, innovative and easy to use payment solutions. We have extensive in house knowledge and experience in providing payment solutions using: * Cards * Direct Debit * Direct Credit * Text donation, competitions & marketing Supporting different transaction types such as: * Chip & PIN * Mail Order * Telephone * Ecommerce We can speedily provide you with a tailored flexible service that meets your needs, whatever the size of your organisation. Call 01525 862555 or email sales@rsm2000.co.uk SAXOPRINT is one of the leading online printing companies in Europe. The company currently employs more than 500 dedicated staff over a total area of more than 18,000 m² at its headquarters. SAXOPRINT offers exceptional print quality. The company has one of the most modern technology parks in the global printing industry at its disposal. The online printing company has invested almost €20 million in new equipment, production processes and new employees over the last two years. Thanks to efficient work processes in prepress, production, processing and dispatch, as well as the very latest technologies, the company is able to carry out thousands of print orders every day on schedule. Sustainability and climate protection are also important factors for SAXOPRINT. Using the very latest printing technologies, over 350,000 customers throughout Europe count on SAXOPRINT for their environmentally friendly printing needs. Based on the collaboration with ClimatePartner, a leading provider of climate protection solutions, customers can make their own individual contribution to climate protection and optimise their CO₂ footprint. The company strategy for 2016 includes introducing new products and services. These include new features and continuous improvement of the usability of online printing portals. The aim is to provide additional benefit for customers in order to offer optimal service. Do you also want to sponsor this Fundraising Camp? Contact Trevor Dorrell.     Delegates' feedback #fundraisingcamp @howardlake Thank you for creating such an inspirationally brilliant event! Or in fact, allowing us to! Genius. — Paul Minett (@HomesNot) May 1, 2014 More feedback on UK Fundraising's training courses and events   Terms and conditions By booking a place, you accept the following terms and conditions. Videos and photographs of participants will be taken at the event and then published and you give Fundraising UK Ltd permission so to do. Fundraising UK Ltd reserves the right to amend the details of the event as set out above. You can cancel your registration and receive a 100% refund up to one calendar month before the event. No refunds will be made for cancellations after this time. You can login and change the details of the delegate until the day before the event.  Should the event be cancelled, Fundraising UK Ltd limits its responsibility to refund only the value of the ticket price paid, not any expenses you might have incurred e.g. travel or accommodation.