Publications
From thoroughly researched funding directories to best practice management guides, you’ll find all you need to make you and your charity stronger. Our charity books have helped hundreds of thousands of charity professionals just like you. Written by leading sector experts who know the issues you face because they’ve faced them too.
In this section:
The Guide to Major Trusts 2019/20
1,000 funders giving a combined total of over £5.5 billion
Top publications
25th edition – The Directory of Grant Making Trusts 2018/19
Best seller With this guide, you'll have access to key information about 2,000 grant-makers, each with the...
Key Guides: The Charity Trustee's Handbook
This guide is ideal for anyone thinking of becoming a charity trustee, or who is...
The Guide to Grants for Individuals in Need 2018/19
This is the ultimate guide for charities and organisations working on the front line, supporting...
The Guide to Educational Grants 2018/19
The Guide to Educational Grants contains over 1,100 sources of non-statutory financial help for people...
Key Guides: Charitable Incorporated Organisations
Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) are now the most popular form for establishing new charities –...
The Guide to Major Trusts 2019/20
Best seller If you need to find grants for your charity or project, this guide is your...
Fundraising
25th edition – The Directory of Grant Making Trusts 2018/19
Best seller With this guide, you'll have access to key information about 2,000 grant-makers, each with the...
The Guide to Major Trusts 2019/20
Best seller If you need to find grants for your charity or project, this guide is your...
The Complete Fundraising Handbook
If you are a fundraiser or someone who needs to raise money for your organisation...
Corporate Fundraising and Partnerships
This book offers all the advice you need to help your charity create successful and...
The Guide to New Trusts 2018/19
With this guide, you no longer need to spend hours looking for new grant-makers who...
Management & leadership
It's Murder in Management
There will be days when you feel like murdering your bosses, your team or your...
Key Guides: The Board Secretary’s Handbook
This handbook tells you what a board secretary is and why you need one. It...
A Practical Guide to Financial Management
for Charities and Voluntary Organisations
From the Top Down
How can you effectively strategise for and support the engagement of volunteers across your organisation?
The Complete Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Handbook
Customer Relationship Management is as important for the voluntary sector as it is for the...
The Pleasure and the Pain
You can choose your friends... but not your colleagues.
Personal development
It's Murder in Management
There will be days when you feel like murdering your bosses, your team or your...
Speed Read: Writing for Work
Whatever your charity role, writing memos, letters, minutes and even weighty reports is likely to...
Speed Read: Training Skills
Do you have the training skills to effectively pass on your specialist knowledge and techniques?
Speed Read: Time Management
Do you never seem to have enough time? Are you struggling to meet deadlines, working...
Speed Read: Report Writing
How can you learn to write excellent reports, and also enjoy the process?
Speed Read: Presentations
Does the idea of speaking in public fill you with dread? Making presentations in front...
Marketing & communications
Effective Media Relations for Charities
What journalists want and how to deliver it
Speed Read: Writing for the Web
When readers can leave your website with just one click, writing effectively online is one...
Speed Read: Media Relations
The media just aren't interested in charity stories. They only want bad news. If you've...
Speed Read: Difficult Customers
Whether they're donors or benefactors, some of your 'customers' are going to complain or be...
DIY Guide to Powerful Publicity
This fun and practical guide will help you write more powerfully about your organisation, making...
Charity Marketing: Delivering Income, Services and Campaigns
How can you use both traditional and cutting-edge marketing techniques to earn vital funds, attract...
Finance & law
Key Guides: Charitable Incorporated Organisations
Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) are now the most popular form for establishing new charities –...
365 Ways to Cut Costs
Cost cutting is always important to charities but never more so than now.
Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook 2019/2020
The definitive guide to the social security system, and an essential resource for all advisers...
Speed Read: Age Discrimination
Even if you think you're already doing the right things, this book gives good practice...
Key Guides: The Charity Treasurer’s Handbook
Steering a charity's finances can be one of the most challenging roles you'll face in...
Income to Impact
Financial Stewardship of Public Sector and Not-for-profit Organisations
Governance
Key Guides: The Board Secretary’s Handbook
This handbook tells you what a board secretary is and why you need one. It...
Key Guides: Effective School Governance
What is a governor? How do you become one? And how can you make a...
The Complete Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Handbook
Customer Relationship Management is as important for the voluntary sector as it is for the...
One Minute Tips on Governance
Learn the key things you need to know to successfully manage a charity – in...
Managing Without Profit
The only book out there that covers - in one volume - management, governance and...
Key Guides: The Charity Trustee's Handbook
This guide is ideal for anyone thinking of becoming a charity trustee, or who is...
Policy, campaigns & research
How to Change the World
The essential guide for social sector leaders
What does Brexit mean for UK charities’ European Union funding?
Our research shows that UK Charities are set to lose out on over £250 million...
Your Chance to Change the World
So you want to change the world? You know you have the drive and vision,...
