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 2017/18
Get access to the 1,000 largest grant-makers in the UK
Top publications
Effective Fundraising
Whether you're new to fundraising, or simply need to refocus and gather some fresh ideas,...
How to Love Your Donors (To Death)
Be prepared for a rollercoaster ride of fundraising criminals and heroes, as author and world...
The Guide to UK Company Giving 2015/16
What would your organisation do with a share of over £658 million?
Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook 2016/2017
The essential and best-selling guide to all benefits and tax credits covers all the recent...
Sector Insight: UK Grant-making Trusts and Foundations 2015
Do you want to know what makes funders tick? This in-depth analysis of 2,500 grant-making...
The Guide to Major Trusts 2017/18
If you need to find grants for your charity or project, the DSC’s flagship guide...
Fundraising
The Directory of Grant Making Trusts 2016/17 & The Guide to UK Company Giving 2015/16 package
What would your organisation do with a share of over £658 million from the UK’s...
The Guide to Major Trusts 2017/18
If you need to find grants for your charity or project, the DSC’s flagship guide...
The Guide to New Trusts 2016/17
You no longer need to keep a keen eye out for new grant-making charities giving...
The Digital Fundraising Book
This is the book on everything you need to know about fundraising in a digital...
Crowd Funding
A definitive, crowd-sourced guide for anyone seeking to raise or invest money in the crowd.
Public Good by Private Means
In a world where philanthropists can build bigger profiles than presidents, an ever-increasing number have...
Management & leadership
How to Win Campaigns
A practical guide for creating and running successful campaigns.
From the Top Down
How can you effectively strategise for and support the engagement of volunteers across your organisation?
The Complete Customer Relationship Management Handbook
Customer Relationship Management is as important for the voluntary sector as it is for the...
The Essential Management Set
The essential set for managers working in the voluntary sector, including three of DSC's best-selling...
The Pleasure and the Pain
You can choose your friends... but not your colleagues.
The Complete Volunteer Management Handbook
How do you make the most of the volunteers who give their time to your...
Personal development
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...
Speed Read: Meetings
How much of your time is taken up with meetings? Cutting down on the number...
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...
Data Protection for Voluntary Organisations
A guide to help you get your data policies and practices right, but also be...
Finance & law
The Essential Law Set
The essential set for voluntary sector practitioners and professional advisors, including four of DSC's best-selling...
The essential Finance set
The essential set for charity accountants, including four of DSC's best-selling finance titles. Buy the...
365 Ways to Cut Costs
Cost cutting is always important to charities but never more so than now.
Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook 2016/2017
The essential and best-selling guide to all benefits and tax credits covers all the recent...
Voluntary but not Amateur
However you run your charity, you need to keep within the law.
The Russell-Cooke Voluntary Sector Legal Handbook
Are you looking after your donors’ money properly? Is that project within the law on...
Governance
Effective School Governance
What is a governor? How do you become one? And how can you make a...
The Complete Customer Relationship Management Handbook
Customer Relationship Management is as important for the voluntary sector as it is for the...
The Complete Guide to Surviving Contracts
How do you negotiate a contract with the public sector that doesn't drain your resources,...
One Minute Tips on Governance
Learn the key things you need to know to successfully manage a charity – in...
Managing Without Profit
If you are a charity sector manager, you cannot afford not to have a copy...
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
The Good Guide to Trading
Is your organisation considering turning its expertise, knowledge and assets into its own funding stream?
