# Charlie Hulme appointed MD of DonorVoice in the UK

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/02/12/charlie-hulme-appointed-md-donorvoice-uk/
- Published: 2014-02-12T10:42:30+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

US donor experience and relationship company DonorVoice has opened a UK office and
appointed Charlie Hulme, formerly Creative Director at Pell & Bales, as UK Managing
Director.

[DonorVoice](http://www.thedonorvoice.com) works with charities in the USA, Europe,
Australia and the UK, focusing on improving donor retention. It helps organisations
identify and tackle the marketing, fundraising and donor service experiences that
help determine whether a donor will stay or go.

The company’s website uses the graphical analogy of a leaky bucket to demonstrate
the attrition of donors.

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Loyalty expert Roger Craver, founding partner of DonorVoice and editor of [The Agitator](http://www.theagitator.net/),
said:

“The UK market is long overdue the great opportunity DonorVoice brings. We’re proud
to have Charlie at the helm given his expertise in what is required to deliver a
brilliant donor experience and in understanding the financial value attached to 
it.”

 

[⌊Charlie Hulme⌉⌊Charlie Hulme⌉[

Charlie Hulme, UK MD of DonorVoice

[Hulme](http://twitter.com/charlieartful), who spent three years at Pell & Bales,
said:

“The biggest challenge to a charity’s mission, brand and net revenue.is donors leaving
faster than they can be replaced.

“Despite the obvious financial argument for trying to keep donors loyal – it can
cost up to 10 times as much to bring in a new donor as hold onto an existing one,
and it takes, on average, 18 months for a new donor to cover the cost of acquisition–
the trend lines of retention are getting worse, not better.

“While the concepts of loyalty and retention are not new (and getting increased 
focus) until now there was nobody in the UK providing an empirical, proven model
to define and measure loyalty, connect it to value and most importantly, identify
the organization specific interactions that cause or detract from that loyalty and
value.

“This is not theory; charities that are doing it are seeing huge reduction in attrition
and huge gain in lifetime value”.

 

_Photo: [leaky bucket](http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-160355549/stock-photo-water-is-coming-out-of-a-bucket-with-holes.html)
by ConstantinosZ on Shutterstock.com_

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