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 2017/18
The leading guide which includes details of more than 400 companies in the UK that...
Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook 2017/2018
The definitive guide to all benefits and tax credits is an essential resource for all...
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 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 Educational Grants 2016/17
The Guide to Educational Grants contains over 1,000 sources of non-statutory financial help for people...
The Complete Fundraising Handbook
If you are a fundraiser or someone who needs to raise money for your organisation...
The Guide to New Trusts 2016/17
You no longer need to keep a keen eye out for new grant-making charities giving...
The Guide to UK Company Giving 2017/18
The leading guide which includes details of more than 400 companies in the UK that...
Corporate Fundraising
Your fundraising among large companies and philanthropists can only benefit from this well-established expert guide...
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 (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.
The Complete Volunteer Management Handbook
How do you make the most of the volunteers who give their time to your...
The Complete Guide to Creating and Managing New Projects
Breaking your charity's work into distinct projects is the best way for you to get...
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 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 2017/2018
The definitive guide to all benefits and tax credits is an essential resource for all...
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...
The Good Guide to Trading
Is your organisation considering turning its expertise, knowledge and assets into its own funding stream?
Governance
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...
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
The only book out there that covers in one volume management, governance and leadership tailored...
Key Guides: The Charity Trustee's Handbook
This guide is ideal for anyone thinking of becoming a charity trustee, or who is...
