# Trocaire N Ireland posts drop in fundraising income

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/08/13/trocaire-n-ireland-posts-drop-fundraising-income/
- Published: 2017-08-13T10:37:46+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Fundraising income for development charity Trocaire’s Northern Ireland operation
was down nearly 5% in the last financial year, according to the charity’s latest
accounts.**

Total fundraising income was £5.5 million in 2016/17, down from £5.8 million the
year before. Unrestricted fundraising income was up from £5.1 million to £5.3 million
but restricted income, which includes legacies, fell from £700,000 from to £200,000.

[Trocaire](http://www.trocaire.org), which is linked to the Catholic church, focuses
its fundraising on parishes, schools, individual giving programmes and corporate,
major donor and legacy fundraising

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Trocaire says the fundraising environment remains “very challenging”. The annual
accounts show a downward trend in fundraising income over a number of years. 

“A combination of increased competition for public funds and pressure on government
finances means Trocaire (Northern Ireland) needs to identify and develop new sources
of income in order to reduce the risk of significant income fluctuations,” the annual
accounts say.

Institutional funding from government was £2.7 million last year, against £4.7 million
the year before. The UK government is Trocaire’s largest single donor but the charity
has also for many years received support from others such as the Big Lottery Fund,
Comic Relief and through the Caritas Network.

Spending on raising funds was £600,000 which represented 6% of total expenditure.
This is a reduction on the previous year spend of £1m. In the last financial year
Trocaire scaled back its committed giving campaign “in order to assess our overall
fundraising strategy”.

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