COVID-19: launch of weekly monitor of supporter loyalty and sentiment
Howard Lake | 20 March 2020 | News
Supporter loyalty specialists About Loyalty have started tracking how COVID-19 is going to impact charitable giving across the UK.
They have begun fieldwork in the form of a weekly monitor to:
- quantify the likely impact on income/support – looking at intentions to continue giving, stop giving, start a new gift etc. by charitable sector
- understand how charities can adapt their comms/fundraising to the sentiment that is out there
Because the situation is changing so rapidly the aim is to give charities ideas and support on how they can continue to give the best and most appropriate experiences to existing and new supporters and earn their continued support.
The Sentiment Tracker will run for at least four weeks.
About Loyalty is working with Kokoro Global with whom it has run its loyalty benchmarking service that has now surveyed over 130,000 charity supporters.
The fee for participating organisations will be £3,000 for four weeks. There will be limited scope for additional questions priced at £200 each.
Which questions?
The tracker survey will cover issues such as:
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- Thoughts on the role of charities at the moment. For example, which causes are most relevant/important?
- Whether the pandemic is affecting individuals’ likelihood of supporting charities.
- Views on the way the government, local councils, charities, media and brands are dealing with the pandemic.
About Loyalty is planning to roll out the tracker internationally.
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.