Arts, Culture and Heritage Survey

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* 1. Which of the following statements best describes how your charity has been affected since March 2020:

· Our fundraising efforts have been more successful

· We have seen a significant decrease in income

· Initially we were very concerned, but special COVID-19 funds from both private grant-makers and the government have enabled us to maintain activity.

· We don’t know if our charity will survive the next year.

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* 2. Which of your income streams has declined the most since March 2020? (Please select your top two)

· None

· Corporate

· Regular giving

· Major giving

· Legacies

· Community

· Online

· Income generation (shops/lottery)

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* 3. Have any of your income streams seen an increase since March 2020? (Please select top two)

· None

· Corporate

· Regular giving

· Major giving

· Legacies

· Community

· Online

· Income generation (shops/lottery)

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* 4. What is your prediction for reaching your fundraising target this financial year?

· On budget

· We will exceed budget

· We will be below budget by 1-50%

· We will be below budget by more than 50%

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* 5. What has been the hardest part about trying to keep fundraising on track? (tick top two)

· Not knowing when we can re-open to the public

· Capacity limitations for the public

· Fundraising team furloughed resulting in lack of staff resource

· Our historic reliance on events fundraising

· Our historic reliance on income from charity shops

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* 6. How big is your fundraising department?

· 1-4 people

· 5-15 people

· More than 15 people

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* 7. Did you furlough staff at any point?

· All fundraising staff were furloughed

· Some of the fundraising staff were furloughed

· We didn’t need to furlough any fundraising staff

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* 8. How have you found communicating with your supporters in a socially distanced world? (Tick all that apply)

· It has been very difficult to maintain relationships

· We reached out to all major donors within the first two months of the pandemic to update them on our situation

· We couldn’t send direct mail due to the infection risk and this was challenging

· We have been proactive in reaching out through email bulletins and online information

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* 9. If you undertake community fundraising, how have you adapted without events being able to take place? (Tick all that apply)

· We cancelled all events

· We adapted all possible events to online versions

· We found new ways to hold community fundraising events online

Other (please specify)

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* 10. Would you be nervous about launching a new legacy giving programme, or promoting a present one, in the current climate?

· Yes, it would be insensitive

· No, legacy giving is even more important than ever

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* 11. Have you seen any impact on legacy fundraising?

· Our legacy income is on target

· Our legacy income is below target

· We saw an increase in pledges declared during the pandemic

· We stopped our legacy marketing during the pandemic

· We have not noticed a difference

Other (please specify)

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* 12. What response are you getting from your corporate partners/donors at present? (Tick all that apply)

· Current sponsors have maintained their financial commitments

· Some current sponsors have cancelled or paused support, others have maintained as usual.

· All our corporate support has ended.

• It is very hard to secure new corporate partners/gifts at the moment

· We have found corporates easy to approach in recent months.

Other (please specify)

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* 13. For those with a major capital campaign underway, have you been pursuing major gifts throughout the pandemic?

· Not applicable

· Yes, we continued as planned

· No, we stopped all asking

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* 14. How do you currently feel about asking a major gift prospect to meet face to face for cultivation purposes?

· Happy to meet face to face if the prospect is

· Not yet ready to ask for a face to face meeting, but would attend if the prospect suggests it

· Not planning to meet anyone face to face for some time

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* 15. How do you feel about organising a small cultivation event, abiding by government legislation in force?

· I am happy to organise such an event if able to

· I don’t believe that this is sensible at the moment

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* 16. What has been the focus of your fundraising since March?

· We continued as normal with our fundraising strategy

· We focused solely on an emergency appeal

· We launched an emergency appeal, but kept our other programmes live in the background.

Other (please specify)

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* 17. How has the pandemic affected your overall fundraising strategy? (Tick all that apply)

· We need to completely overhaul our strategy

· We’ll be making some tweaks to our strategy

· We never really had a defined strategy and now must devise one

· It made us realise we rely too heavily on some income streams

· Our strategy held up well, we are confident in our future

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* 18. Is there anything else you would like to share with us or suggest as future webinar topics for sector learning?

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* 19. If you would like to have a copy of our report detailing the findings of the survey sent directly to you, please leave your contact details below: (name, organisation, email)

Name

Company

Address

Address 2

City/Town

State/Province

ZIP/Postal Code

Country

Email Address

Phone Number

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* 20. Are you a: (tick all that apply)

· Theatre

· Music venue

· Gallery

· Museum

Other (please specify)

Arts, Culture and Heritage Survey

Impact of COVID-19 on the Third Sector

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* 1. Which of the following statements best describes how your charity has been affected since March 2020:

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* 2. Which of your income streams has declined the most since March 2020? (Please select your top two)

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* 3. Have any of your income streams seen an increase since March 2020? (Please select top two)

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* 4. What is your prediction for reaching your fundraising target this financial year?

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* 5. What has been the hardest part about trying to keep fundraising on track? (tick top two)

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* 6. How big is your fundraising department?

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* 7. Did you furlough staff at any point?

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* 8. How have you found communicating with your supporters in a socially distanced world? (Tick all that apply)

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* 9. If you undertake community fundraising, how have you adapted without events being able to take place? (Tick all that apply)

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* 10. Would you be nervous about launching a new legacy giving programme, or promoting a present one, in the current climate?

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* 11. Have you seen any impact on legacy fundraising?

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* 12. What response are you getting from your corporate partners/donors at present? (Tick all that apply)

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* 13. For those with a major capital campaign underway, have you been pursuing major gifts throughout the pandemic?

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* 14. How do you currently feel about asking a major gift prospect to meet face to face for cultivation purposes?

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* 15. How do you feel about organising a small cultivation event, abiding by government legislation in force?

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* 16. What has been the focus of your fundraising since March?

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* 17. How has the pandemic affected your overall fundraising strategy? (Tick all that apply)

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* 18. Is there anything else you would like to share with us or suggest as future webinar topics for sector learning?

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* 19. If you would like to have a copy of our report detailing the findings of the survey sent directly to you, please leave your contact details below: (name, organisation, email)

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* 20. Are you a: (tick all that apply)