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Ads 'ad it?

Howard Lake | 30 September 1997 | News

If you’re disatisfied or frustrated with your fundraising adverts, then enjoy Jeffrey Zeldman’s Advertising Graveyard.

Here you’ll find adverts that never made it, and for good reason. These are amusing, daft, and sometimes utterly tasteless, but they are a great reminder that the bottom of the barrel of bad advertising ideas is never scraped. Sadly, there aren’t any charity fundraising ads on display.

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Legacy & In-Memory Fundraising Conference, September 2026

Now, who would like to step forward and present to UK Fundraising a never-before-seen-in-public failed fundraising advert that never made it off the drawing board?

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