31. Damian Chapman – Corporate fundraising for a niche cause

What do you do to succeed when your charity is in a very clear niche that is not universally popular? Many charities get demoralised or waste energy trying to appeal to everybody. The best strategy is to embrace the situation and find a way to turn it to your advantage. In this episode I talk to Damian Chapman, a very experienced fundraiser who has been fundraising director at several small charities and is currently at the Charity for Civil Servants. In addition to getting his views on some implications of the pandemic, I particularly wanted to find out about the very successful corporate partnerships strategy he and his colleagues implemented when he was working for Police Care UK. He explains what he calls the SW3 principle; the power of very clear targeting and insight; as well as hugely effective tactics they used for building valuable relationships and partnerships from scratch with exactly the right companies. If you’d like to find out more about our Corporate Partnerships Mastery Programme you can find out all about it through our website - www.brightspotfundraising.co.uk/services, or feel free to get in touch if you have questions. If you’d like more powerful strategies to help you raise funds during the pandemic, then there are lots of different approaches in my new free E-book: Power Through The Pandemic – Seven ways to raise money with major donors, corporates and trusts, even now. You can download it for FREE here: www.brightspotfundraising.co.uk/power If you want to share this episode because you think it will help others – THANK YOU VERY MUCH! - we are both on Linked In and on twitter, where Damian is @damianchapmanuk and I am @woods_rob. Thank you very much for listening – I’m thrilled to say that at the time of publishing this episode, the podcast has now been listened to more than 10,000 times. I really appreciate your support to get to this milestone, so that we can help as many charities as possible.