{"id":8739,"date":"2021-07-21T14:45:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/givergy.agiledigitalsolutions.co.uk\/?p=8739"},"modified":"2025-08-29T12:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:30:59","slug":"were-vaccinated-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re vaccinated \u2013 now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 3<\/span>rd<\/sup>\u00a0March 2020, at our head offices in London, I made a statement which, in hindsight, wouldn\u2019t be described as being \u2018of a particularly fine vintage\u2019: \u2018don\u2019t worry, guys \u2013 two weeks and this\u2019ll all have blown over.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

While confident I wasn\u2019t the only one to underestimate the impact Covid was set to have on every facet of our lives, the flippancy with which I dismissed it still irks me. Since then, I\u2019ve tried to keep my mouth shut. I\u2019m not a doctor, a virologist nor an epidemiologist (although I am a zoologist, if that counts? It definitely doesn\u2019t\u2026), so I figured I\u2019d best leave the predictions to the experts. After all, you wouldn\u2019t catch Chris Whitty offering advice on how to conduct a successful pledge moment, would you?<\/p>\n

However now, as restrictions finally lift here in the UK and the prospect of an Autumn\/Winter event season becomes tantalisingly real, I find myself in an interesting position. Each day, I speak to anywhere between 30-50 non-profits, all of whom are desperate to figure out a)\u00a0what everyone else is doing<\/strong>\u00a0and b)\u00a0what they should do<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Whilst the former is relatively easy to answer (50% are ploughing on with planning and booking in-person events; 50% are sitting tight), attempting to tackle the latter would feel a little walking into a trap which I\u2019d just watched being set in front of my very eyes.<\/p>\n

Still, I guess it wouldn\u2019t be a particularly interesting blog if I didn\u2019t go out on a limb, so here goes\u2026<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s one premonition which has been proven hard to argue with \u2013 to the extent that it\u2019s almost become a clich\u00e9 \u2013 it\u2019s that\u00a0Covid isn\u2019t going anywhere.<\/strong>\u00a0They were saying it in July 2020, they\u2019re saying today and there\u2019s little to suggest they won\u2019t still be saying it in July 2022.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s becoming \u2013 if it hasn\u2019t already become \u2013 endemic and will, as far we can see, continue to circulate the population \u2013 surging and receding \u2013 for years to come. However, what\u2019s also true to state is that\u00a0vaccines have made an\u00a0enormous<\/em>\u00a0difference<\/strong>\u00a0to how it affects us. At time of writing, here in the UK the number of patients in hospital with Covid is 80% lower than when we saw a similar number of daily infections during the winter wave, with deaths 94% lower.<\/p>\n

So, I guess, the multimillion-dollar question facing us now is,\u00a0\u2018is this as good as it gets?\u2019.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0If we accept that Covid\u2019s here to stay, that it will continue to circulate but that vaccines have \u2013 in the large part \u2013 neutralised its threat, then what now?<\/p>\n

Do we wait until March 2022, or November even, in the hope that the situation\u2019s changed, only to find that \u2013 predictably \u2013 it hasn\u2019t, or do we\u00a0adapt now, accept a degree of shift in guest demographics and crack on<\/strong>\u00a0with making up for lost time and reaping the rewards of the\u00a0$260billion<\/strong>\u00a0(!) which donors have accumulated throughout the months of lockdown.<\/p>\n

The camp is split, that much is certain, but only time will tell whether fortune favours the brave.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 3rd\u00a0March 2020, at our head offices in London, I made a statement which, in hindsight, wouldn\u2019t be described as being \u2018of a particularly fine vintage\u2019: \u2018don\u2019t worry, guys \u2013 two weeks and this\u2019ll all have blown over.\u2019 While confident I wasn\u2019t the only one to underestimate the impact Covid was set to have on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundraising-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWe're Vaccinated, Now What? | Givergy on Post-Vaccine Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On 3rd March 2020, at our head offices in London, I made a statement which, in hindsight, wouldn\u2019t be described as being \u2018of a particularly\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We're Vaccinated, Now What? | Givergy on Post-Vaccine Insights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On 3rd March 2020, at our head offices in London, I made a statement which, in hindsight, wouldn\u2019t be described as being \u2018of a particularly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Givergy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-21T13:45:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-29T12:30:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/vaccinated-1-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"452\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John Roberts\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John Roberts\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"John Roberts\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/a7aa9025e02d19f71098a5346b774c9c\"},\"headline\":\"We\u2019re vaccinated \u2013 now what?\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-21T13:45:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-29T12:30:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/\"},\"wordCount\":535,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/vaccinated-1-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Fundraising News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/\",\"name\":\"We're Vaccinated, Now What? | Givergy on Post-Vaccine Insights\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/vaccinated-1-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-21T13:45:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-29T12:30:59+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/a7aa9025e02d19f71098a5346b774c9c\"},\"description\":\"On 3rd March 2020, at our head offices in London, I made a statement which, in hindsight, wouldn\u2019t be described as being \u2018of a particularly\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/vaccinated-1-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/vaccinated-1-1.jpg\",\"width\":920,\"height\":452,\"caption\":\"vaccinated image\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"We\u2019re vaccinated \u2013 now what?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/\",\"name\":\"Givergy\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/a7aa9025e02d19f71098a5346b774c9c\",\"name\":\"John Roberts\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/givergy_headshot_john_v1-150x150.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/givergy_headshot_john_v1-150x150.webp\",\"caption\":\"John Roberts\"},\"description\":\"ohn is a familiar face in the charity and event fundraising world, having worked at Givergy for over six years as part of the business development team. Now a fully trained and experienced fundraising host, his focus is on helping charities raise as much money as possible through both in-person and virtual events.\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"We're Vaccinated, Now What? | Givergy on Post-Vaccine Insights","description":"On 3rd March 2020, at our head offices in London, I made a statement which, in hindsight, wouldn\u2019t be described as being \u2018of a particularly","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"We're Vaccinated, Now What? | Givergy on Post-Vaccine Insights","og_description":"On 3rd March 2020, at our head offices in London, I made a statement which, in hindsight, wouldn\u2019t be described as being \u2018of a particularly","og_url":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/","og_site_name":"Givergy","article_published_time":"2021-07-21T13:45:29+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-08-29T12:30:59+00:00","og_image":[{"width":920,"height":452,"url":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/vaccinated-1-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"John Roberts","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"John Roberts","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/"},"author":{"name":"John Roberts","@id":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/a7aa9025e02d19f71098a5346b774c9c"},"headline":"We\u2019re vaccinated \u2013 now what?","datePublished":"2021-07-21T13:45:29+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-29T12:30:59+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/"},"wordCount":535,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/vaccinated-1-1.jpg","articleSection":["Fundraising News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/","url":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/","name":"We're Vaccinated, Now What? | Givergy on Post-Vaccine Insights","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/vaccinated-1-1.jpg","datePublished":"2021-07-21T13:45:29+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-29T12:30:59+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/a7aa9025e02d19f71098a5346b774c9c"},"description":"On 3rd March 2020, at our head offices in London, I made a statement which, in hindsight, wouldn\u2019t be described as being \u2018of a particularly","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/vaccinated-1-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/vaccinated-1-1.jpg","width":920,"height":452,"caption":"vaccinated image"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/blog\/were-vaccinated-now-what\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"We\u2019re vaccinated \u2013 now what?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/","name":"Givergy","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/a7aa9025e02d19f71098a5346b774c9c","name":"John Roberts","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/givergy_headshot_john_v1-150x150.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/givergy_headshot_john_v1-150x150.webp","caption":"John Roberts"},"description":"ohn is a familiar face in the charity and event fundraising world, having worked at Givergy for over six years as part of the business development team. Now a fully trained and experienced fundraising host, his focus is on helping charities raise as much money as possible through both in-person and virtual events."}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.givergy.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}