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Encouraging Ambition

Working with schools in the UK including Northern Ireland, Switzerland and the Netherlands – some that have never embarked on development activities, some that have an established programme – are daring to be ambitious and responding to the challenge. Expanding into secondary education, raising the community expectations and aspirations for fundraising,...

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During the past week I gave two workshops at the Catholic Independent Schools Conference in Oxford with both sessions very well attended. The interest in Development & Fundraising is clearly now well up on the agenda for those schools that have previously not seen this as a priority. A visit...

Another Impact of the School Development Programme

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By Ian McLean
In Development office, Education, Fundraising

As part of an overall look at the School development plan, we identified the school’s strengths and uniqueness: resulting in the creation of the first school-based golf academy in Ireland – based in Belfast amongst some of the best Northern Ireland courses. Following a proven model and a programme for...

How well are we looking after existing donors?

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By Ian McLean
In Development office, Education, Feasibility, Fundraising

Before our profession matured it was normal to have periodic fundraising campaigns, to bank the donations, exhaust the volunteers, ask everyone and anyone and hope for success. There would be a thank you to everyone and then a monthly reconciliation of the bank account to ensure promised donations were reaching...

Finding the School’s Unique Factor

Watching the 2015 Open Championship from St Andrews reminds me of the challenges I faced in 2001/2002 at Loretto School in Edinburgh. The small but historic boarding school needed to identify its strengths and use those in its consistent marketing messages. As Director of Development & Marketing, my establishment of the...

Development: helping to reshaping school identity

It is interesting to see how schools constantly need to evolve or reshape their identity and how development must work in conjunction with the often changing direction. Over the years I have been directly involved with numerous examples of schools being aware of, and having to redefine themselves: –...

Taking Fundraising to the Next Level – Think in terms of the donor!

In some schools, the level of engagement and support from alumni, whether or not the alumni society is behind that support, is a good indication of the success or growth of a fundraising culture in the school. To take this to another level by engaging parent support for fundraising is...

Encouraging Ambition

All Sorts

Another Impact of the School Development Programme

How well are we looking after existing donors?

Finding the School’s Unique Factor

Development: helping to reshaping school identity

Taking Fundraising to the Next Level – Think in terms of the donor!

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