A free resource has just been launched to champion legacy fundraising, and encourage legacy fundraisers in their own work.
The Legacy Showcase – Campaigns We Love! is from Legacy Futures in collaboration with SOFII and Remember A Charity. It aims to provide an online collection that will grow over time to share inspirational legacy campaigns from charities and not-for-profits from around the world.
So far, The Legacy Showcase comprises 18 short videos presented by champions from the field of legacy fundraising. Talking about their favourite legacy campaigns from the UK, Ireland, Australia, Belgium and the Netherlands, they explain why they find their chosen campaign so powerful, innovative and inspirational, and share tips and lessons.
To grow the collection, The Legacy Showcase is calling for fundraisers everywhere to nominate a legacy campaign that they love. Nominations can be made via a button at the top of The Legacy Showcase page.
Champions and their chosen charities appearing in the first batch of videos include:
o Craig Fordham, Director of Legacies, Macmillan Cancer Support, talking about a ‘beautifully simple’ campaign from Dogs Trust as a lesson in authenticity and real stories.
o Emma Hazlewood, Head of Legacy Development, National Trust, praises Centrepoint for including beneficiaries in the building of their campaign, resulting in powerful messaging that challenges perceptions and builds strong empathy from the outset.
o Dr Lucy Lowthian, Gifts in Wills Consultant at Legacy Voice, shares her thoughts about using positivity and upbeat energy, citing a Battersea Dogs & Cats Home TV ad as a great example with its ‘life rather than end of life’ messaging.
o Lucinda Frostick, Director of Remember a Charity cites a Belgian example from Testament.be that uses sensitive humour to engage audiences during difficult times.
The Legacy Showcase collection of videos is created and hosted by Legacy Futures. SOFII will feature The Legacy Showcase on its website and in its email newsletter, sharing with an audience of over 10,000 fundraisers around the world, and Remember A Charity will feature the page on its website’s members’ area.
Source: UK Fundraising