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National Occupational Standards for Fundraising set out the skills that staff and volunteers who are responsible for raising funds for their organisation should have as well as what they should know and understand in order to do their job well.

The National Occupational Standards for Fundraising have been written by a group of people who have direct experience of raising funds for their organisation in charities, social enterprises, community and voluntary sector organisation. Read about how you can use the National Occupational Standards for Fundraising or download the standards from this page.

The National Occupational Standards for Fundraising focus on voluntary donations, whether from individuals, businesses or grant making organisations. We have chosen not to develop standards for retail trading, contracting, catalogue marketing and other forms of commercial fundraising activity. If you are looking for guidance on best practice in these areas, the marketing and sales and/or retailing suites will offer the guidance that you need. You can conduct a keyword search for relevant standards at the UK Standards website http://www.ukstandards.org.uk/.

National Occupational Standards for Fundraising

Download the full National Occupational Standards for Fundraising (PDF, 347Kb).

Fundraising booklets

We have published a condensed version of the Fundraising Standards, which you can download below.

The pack consists of three booklets:

How the Fundraising standards relate to the Codes of Fundraising Practice

The Institute of Fundraising and its members have been involved in developing the National Occupational Standards for Fundraising and the standards compliment the Institute’s Codes of Fundraising Practice.

The Codes of Fundraising Practice provide a guide to the law and best practice as it relates to fundraising throughout the United Kingdom. Each Code covers a separate fundraising activity.

You can use the National Occupational Standards for Fundraising and the Code of Fundraising Practice together for example to plan and monitor your work, to devise a strategy, develop a fundraising plan, implement it and evaluate its success. The Codes of Fundraising Practice would provide you with guidance on how to use each specific technique in compliance with the law and the highest professional standards while the National Occupational Standards would tell you about the skills, knowledge and understanding you need to perform each task well.

The National Occupational Standards for Fundraising also complement the FundRaising Standards Board scheme whereby members adhere to all the Institute of Fundraising’s Codes of Fundraising Practice and a ‘Fundraising Promise’ which gives donors a series of additional rights.


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