Secrets to a successful fundraising appeal with Trocaire

The Learning Post: episode 21

Running a successful fundraising appeal during a busy external environment and a cost-of-living crisis, is a challenge that many charities are facing.

Trocaire’s Lenten (2022) appeal – their largest fundraising and awareness raising campaign delivered every year – generated really impressive engagement rates despite all these impeding factors.

So what makes for a successful appeal? How do you achieve cut through? How do you maintain relationships with media partners over time and after the appeal for donations has ended? And how do you ensure you are telling an authentic story all the time you are delivering on the above?

Listen in to our latest podcast episode on The Learning Post to find out more from David O’Hare, Communications Officer for Trocaire and Julia Fausing Price of the Social Change Agency.

A young woman talks to a man with a notepad and pen while another woman listens in. Photo Trocaire — David O’Hare talks to Thandekile on the challenges she faces and how Trocaire’s planned project will make a difference to her life

Extract from podcast

“Going forward, I envisage a much more hybrid approach to materials gathering with most of the personnel being national staff and national providers…”

Listen to the podcast in full on The Learning Post
Listen in to other appeal-focused episodes on The Learning Post including Right to Play’s ‘Share her seat’ appeal feature and the READ Foundation’s ‘Because She Can’ (Empower Her) appeal feature.

Photo credit: Trocaire

The secrets to a successful fundraising appeal with UK Aid Match partner, Trocaire

The Learning Post: episode 21