Fundraising Training Ltd
The global experts in raising big money

Our values

When setting up Fundraising Training Ltd, our mission was to enrich the sustainability of civil society and charities by growing skills and creativity in securing funds.  We do this by a unique and original approach to training and consultancy.  In particular, we are global specialists in the field of grantseeking (securing funds from foundations, governments, companies and wealthy individuals).  Our courses have defined best practice in the complex funding market of the UK and in Africa we have become specialists in the sustainability of grant dependent organisations.

Our founder and Director, Bill Bruty, has been a professional fundraiser since 1984 and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising in the UK. He set up the organisation with a passion for equipping anyone who needs to fundraise with the correct skills for them to succeed. We judge our success by the $ billions raised by the people we have trained, rather than the $ millions we have raised ourselves.

Since our establishment in 2001, we have created a range of successful fundraising courses that have attracted participants from hundreds of charities, including some of the largest in the UK: British Red Cross, Diabetes UK, NSPCC, Cancer Research UK, the National Trust and UNICEF UK as well as smaller organisations, such as the Chiltern Centre.  Across the world, we are recognised as developing the ‘industry standards’ in grantseeking.

Fundraising Training Ltd has developed and run training courses and consultancy projects all over the world, including extensive experience of supporting fundraising by local NGOs in Africa.  We have also run training courses in South America and Asia.  Our clients are global, including the Segal Family Foundation, the Advocacy Accelerator in Nairobi, the Pan-American Development Fund, Porticus in UK and Africa, and Light for the World, based in Austria.

From 2002 to 2012 we created and ran the Fundraising Trainee Programme in the UK, which became the single largest entry point into a fundraising career; giving a first step in fundraising for over 200 people.  Over 90% are still in the sector and many have become senior fundraising managers in well-known organisations, such as UNICEF UK and the University of London.

Our flagship training programmes are the Skilled Grantseeker Programme and the Introduction to Grantseeking.  Our current and recent consultancy assignments vary from establishing a Strategic Funding Unit for The Scouts; identifying potential funders for Elrha; to the establishment of financial systems within religious orders in Uganda, through the Association of Religious in Uganda (ARU).