Winners of IoF Insight in Fundraising Awards 2015 announced

Howard Lake | 12 June 2015 | News

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The winners of the fourth annual Institute of Fundraising Insight in Fundraising Awards were announced on Wednesday at a gala dinner at The Underglobe in London.
Charities and their data specialist agency partners were present to pay tribute to the best in insight driven fundraising. Winning charities included Alzheimer’s Research UK, Cats Protection, RNIB, Sightsavers, and Wood Green The Animal Charity.
The IoF Insight in Fundraising Awards have been developed by the IoF Insight in Fundraising Special Interest Group to reward best practice, innovation and impact in harnessing data insight for great fundraising.

Rising Star Award

This year’s Rising Star Award was presented to Colin Thomas, Senior Individual Giving Officer at Cats Protection. The charity’s Director of Fundraising, Lewis Coghlin, said:
“Basing fundraising decisions on data and research is vital in raising more funds for causes like ours; the IoF Insight Awards are valuable in celebrating and promoting good practice and innovation in this area”.

He added:

“Cats Protection’s increasingly data-driven approach is enabling our income to grow rapidly and the part that Colin is playing in this success cannot be overstated. His shrewd analysis of business processes and implementation of improvements has transformed the efficiency of our fundraising and he has generated solutions for other teams, too, so I’m delighted that his achievements have been recognised by the Institute of Fundraising.”

Shortlist for National Award for best use of insight

Guests at the ceremony also heard the announcement of the shortlist for the IoF National Awards 2015 – Best Use of Insight.
The National Award celebrates and rewards the best examples of data insight in fundraising and the shortlist is made up of four award winners from the ‘core discipline’ categories of the Insight in Fundraising Awards. The winner will be announced at the IoF’s National Awards on 6 July at the IoF National Convention 2015.
 

Winners of the Insight in Fundraising Awards 2015

Most Powerful Insight from Traditional Methods of Data Analysis

Sightsavers winning at IoF Insight Awards 2015

Most Powerful Insight Using Innovative Methods of Data Analysis

WINNER: Macmillan Cancer Support – Macmillan Service Line
Highly Commended: Save the Children with Good Innovation – Insight for New Income

Most Powerful Insight from Digital Analysis

WINNER: Alzheimer’s Research UK with Boldlight Limited – Using Supporter Insight to Build The Online Donation Process

Most Powerful Insight Through Research

WINNER: RNLI – Supporter View, a new online supporter research panel
Highly Commended: RSPB – Vote for Bob

Most Powerful Example of Insight Sharing

WINNER: NSPCC – The Knowledge
Highly Commended: CRUK – Product Packs

Most Powerful Use of Insight by a Charity with Fundraising Income Less than £7m

WINNER: Wood Green The Animals Charity – Insight Driven Legacy Fundraising Strategy
Highly Commended: St Paul’s Cathedral with Insight-Ful

Most Powerful Insight from a Long Term Strategic Project

More Partnership winning at IoF Insight Awards 2015

Team of the Year

WINNER: RNIB – Fundraising Insight Unit
Highly Commended: NSPCC – Database Marketing & Planning Team

Supplier of the Year

Adroit Data and Insight – winners at IoF Insight Awards 2015

Rising Star

WINNER: Cats Protection – Colin Thomas
Highly Commended: CRUK – Francesca Bender

Outstanding Contribution

David Dipple – Co-Founder of Adroit Data & Insight
 

IoF National Awards 2015 – Best Use of Insight Category Shortlist

• Macmillan Cancer Support – Macmillan Service Line
• More Partnership – Regular Giving Benchmarking
• RNLI – Supporter View, a new online supporter research tool
• Sightsavers – Doubling Cash Income
 
 

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.