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Covid-19: Call for charities to answer sector-wide survey to assess impact

Melanie May | 18 March 2020 | News

The Institute of Fundraising has launched a sector-wide survey together with NCVO and CFG to try and assess how coronavirus will impact charities, and is asking charities to participate, with a deadline of Monday 23 March.
The sector bodies have been working together to influence and shape government policy on future support for the sector and need evidence of this kind to help them inform decisions.
They say that they expect fundraising directors/finance directors, or those with the overview of their charity’s finances, to predominantly be the ones filling out the survey and appreciate that respondents might not have the time or information to answer every question, but that every response will be useful.
The deadline of 23 March is necessarily short because of the need to move quickly, and so that the results can feed into policy asks.
The survey can be accessed here.


 
The IoF and Fundraising Regulator have also today (18 March) issued advice for all charities to reflect seriously on whether they should continue public fundraising, due to the increased health risk to the general population with Covid-19.
Following the government’s advice on social distancing, they advise carrying out a thorough risk assessment, with any decision to continue public fundraising documented and made at the most senior level.
Based on the IoF’s data on year-on-year sign ups, it predicts that if no further face to face fundraising happens in 2020/2021, there would be a loss of 800,000 supporters who would have signed up to charitable causes through door to door, street and private site fundraising, which could lead to hundreds of millions of pounds in lost income in lost income for charities over the next few years and up to 3,000 job losses if face-to-face agencies go under.
It has a blog series on what fundraisers can do to mitigate the impact, and will continue to update the coronavirus information page for fundraisers as events develop.
The IoF says it is ‘taking active steps to do all we can to help support the public fundraising sector and our members, both charities and agencies, at this uniquely difficult time.’
It has already:

In addition, it will be taking the following steps:

The Fundraising Regulator will also be publishing practical advice over the coming days and weeks as the situation develops.

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