{"id":72871,"date":"2015-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/blog\/8-principles-for-making-your-fundraising-event-a-success\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:53:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:53:03","slug":"8-principles-for-making-your-fundraising-event-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/uk\/blog\/8-principles-for-making-your-fundraising-event-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"8 principles for making your fundraising event a success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past 12 months alone we have supported over 1,000 fundraising events for 800 causes and raised over \u00a325 million for incredible causes, putting us in a good position to be dishing out a few fundraising <a href=\"..\/..\/blog\/8-principles-for-making-your-fundraising-event-a-success\/\">hints and tips.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p>However, why not take a look at what Karen Bearman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk\/2015\/10\/30\/8-principles-for-making-your-fundraising-event-a-success-2\/\">Save the Children&#8217;s<\/a> Senior Manager of Special Events has to say about organising and hosting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charitydigitalnews.co.uk\/2015\/10\/30\/8-principles-for-making-your-fundraising-event-a-success-2\/\">successful fundraising event<\/a>, an interesting read to say the least from an industry professional.<\/p>\r\n<p><!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-c7d114ba-2e5b-424d-ac80-5d051cf4e0d7\" class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\"><span id=\"hs-cta-c7d114ba-2e5b-424d-ac80-5d051cf4e0d7\" class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-c7d114ba-2e5b-424d-ac80-5d051cf4e0d7\"><!-- [if lte IE 8]&gt;\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;![endif]--><a href=\"..\/..\/fundraising-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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