Thank you Andrew for joining us again in the virtual studio! This time the topic is faith-based fundraising, how to make the best of the current situation, and how to make sure that no matter where you are and what you're doing, you are telling stories that connect people to your cause.

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"Great fundraising means being ‘15 minutes ahead’. There are few opportunities now to be light years ahead of all the other competing causes, but many ways you can be just a little bit ahead. To keep the advantage you have to learn to spot opportunities and take prudent risks boldly."

This week we're delighted to welcome Andrew Robison, Owner and President of Petrus Development. Andrew joins us to tease out some answers to what we're all thinking: Which opportunities should I take now to make sure that I'm fundraising 15 minutes ahead?

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Ken Burnett's 18th of 34 principles of fundraising is that "Brand is a lot less important to donors than it is to you." But does that really apply to all areas of fundraising?

Mark Astarita OBE, Partner at AAW and former Director of Fundraising at the British Red Cross, gives us his take this week on the question of whether and how brand really matters to donors, particularly in the area of legacies.

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Fezzan Ahmed is the co-founder of Jigsaw House, a social enterprise specialising in solving problems via non-traditional ways. He joins AmickyCarol this week to talk about demonstrating your social impact in pounds and pence.

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Welcome to Season 4! Our first full episode of this season is out on Monday 22 February with Fezzan Ahmed, Founder of the Jigsaw House Society. Make sure you're subscribed so that you never miss an episode, and join in the fundraising conversation on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

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On this very special episode of Four Minutes in Fundraising, we're re-releasing our conversation with Ruth Davison, CEO of Comic Relief. We talk about why Comic Relief exists, their funding priorities, eligibility criteria and other tips for applying for grants.

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You can check your eligibility for applying to Comic Relief grants at https://www.comicrelief.com/funding/eligibility-criteria/. 

In our last episode of 2020 and of Season 3, we're bringing you part 2 of our conversation with Krystal Lashley-Scrivener, World Fellow and Philanthropy Manager at the Duke of Edinburgh International Award Foundation, and a highly experienced major donor fundraiser. She gives her three top tips for fundraising with major donors and talks about how even small organisations with limited capacity can engage in this form of fundraising.

Thank you for being part of our wonderful audience this year! We will be back in 2021 with Season 4. In the meantime, please reach out to us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @FundraisingPod to let us know what you would like us to cover and who you would like us to talk to. We love hearing from you!

In Part 2 of this conversation about the Big Give, Director Alex Day gives his three top tips to bear in mind when participating in the Christmas Challenge as a charity. Plus, our brilliant interns Charlotte and Brandi discuss the lessons they've learnt from our youth entrepreneur workshops so far.

Thank you so much to all those who supported our Big Give Christmas Challenge campaign this year! This money will enable us to start working on new financial literacy content for young people. In the meantime, you can start following Charlotte and Brandi's work on Instagram @bonsaimoney. Finally, if you haven't listened to Part 1 of our conversation and to our 30 November episode on Giving Tuesday, you should definitely go back and check them out!

Alex Day is the Director of the Big Give, the UK's #1 match funding platform and the organisation behind the Christmas Challenge. He joins us to explain the origins of the Christmas Challenge and the importance of match funding as a way of bringing individuals, charities and philanthropists together to multiply their impact.

We are currently running a Big Give Christmas Challenge campaign to help us produce financial literacy content for young people, led by our brilliant interns Charlotte and Brandi. They kindly joined us as well to talk about the project and about what financial literacy means to them as young people.

The Big Give Christmas Challenge ends on Tuesday 8 December! You can support our work with young people by donating or by sharing: https://donate.thebiggive.org.uk/campaign/a051r00001fGybuAAC