# UK Fundraising Forum reaches 1,000th registered user

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/09/16/uk-fundraising-forum-reaches-1000th-registered-user/
- Published: 2004-09-16T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**UK Fundraising Forum, the free discussion forum for fundraisers, now has 1,000
registered users.**

The Forum, which has been running since 1996, is designed to help fundraisers share
expertise and experience and to help them avoid reinventing the wheel. Each message
posted is archived in the Forum in its various topic categories, thus creating an
unrivalled collection of freely-given advice and expertise from a wide variety of
fundraisers and professional advisers.

The Forum continues to grow, and now has over 1,000 registered users. Users need
to register on the Forum if they wish to post a message or sign up for e-mail alerts
of new messages of interest to them.

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Of course, there is no need to register in order to search and read the Forum’s 
archive of messages. So, the Forum attracts and is used by many more than its 1,000
registered users.

The Forum is arguably one of the more successful online forums for UK voluntary 
sector staff, apart from being the first such resource in Europe for professional
fundraisers. A quick glance at other related forums shows either a limited number
of registered users or very infrequent use.

For example:

 * The Company Solutions Forum has attracted 27 messages in the nine months since
   it launched in November 2003.
 * Governmentfunding.org.uk has over 10,000 registered users interested in funding
   from government departments, but has attracted just 105 messages from this audience
   since it launched in July 2004. Nearly half of these were contributed in a two-
   hour question and answer session just after it launched.
 * Looking at the membership of discussion forums hosted on the groups.yahoo.com
   site, we find that, as of today, charitywebforum has 342 members, corporate_fundraising
   has 301, prospect-research-uk has 210, statutory fundraising has 127, trust_fundraising
   has 597, and volresource has 86. For most of these, those figures are a maximum
   number of recipients because, unlike the UK Fundraising Forum, they do not allow
   unregistered or non-members to view and explore the archive.

If you haven’t yet explored the UK Fundraising Forum, try searching it now to see
if your current fundraising problem has been discussed or answered already.

 * **[New discussion forum for Taunton Deane fundraisers](https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/12/10/new-discussion-forum-taunton-deane-fundraisers/)**(
   10 December 2004)
 * **[Scottish international development fundraisers to meet in January](https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/12/21/scottish-international-development-fundraisers-meet-january/)**(
   21 December 2004)
 * **[Institute of Fundraising launches its first online discussion forum](https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/02/02/institute-fundraising-launches-its-first-online-discussion-forum/)**(
   2 February 2005)