# Free fundraising coaching offer for charities responding to Afghanistan crisis

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/08/27/free-fundraising-coaching-offer-for-charities-responding-to-afghanistan-crisis/
- Published: 2021-08-27T13:38:16+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**A programme of free coaching is on offer to help UK charities and voluntary organisations
responding to the crisis in Afghanistan grow funds to support their work.  **

Fundraisers Supporting Afghans harnesses the expertise of the Welsh fundraising 
sector, and will see a team of experienced fundraisers coaching organisations delivering
services, directly or remotely to those affected by the crisis in Afghanistan. This
includes people who have fled to the UK as refugees, those displaced within Afghanistan,
and people who have been dislocated to the surrounding countries of Pakistan, Iran,
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.   

[Applications to join the project](https://forms.gle/i4ZqdZKjLajYTcoJA) are on a
first-come, first-served basis.

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The scheme has the following eligibility criteria:   

 * UK-based not-for-profit organisation or group (can be unincorporated).  
 * Requires support to increase capacity to raise emergency funds and deliver humanitarian
   support.  
 * Funding raised through volunteer coaching will support work to benefit people
   from, or within, Afghanistan.   

All the fundraisers involved are volunteering their time freely, with the coaching
aiming to grow Afghan support organisations’ expertise in and knowledge of securing
donations from the public, making successful applications to trusts and foundations,
working with corporate sponsors, and promoting their fundraising activity for maximum
impact.   

Richard Newton, Director of Richard Newton Consulting, the organisation initiating
and facilitating the project, said:  

> “We’re delighted that the professional fundraisers of Wales have joined forces,
> volunteering to support UK charities growing their capacity to help thousands 
> of Afghani people. As a company, we are pleased to be in a position to donate 
> the resources needed to initiate and facilitate this work.”
>  
> “The project will build on the warm welcome of the UK’s communities to refugees
> escaping the escalating situation in Afghanistan. The generous group of fundraisers
> is 150% committed to playing their part in helping to alleviate this catastrophic
> humanitarian crisis.  We know from similar past projects that this support has
> a transformational effect – raising thousands of pounds to support this critical
> work.”

Professional fundraisers who would like to volunteer their time for the programme
are invited to email [in**@***************co.uk](https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/08/27/free-fundraising-coaching-offer-for-charities-responding-to-afghanistan-crisis/in**@***************co.uk)
with Fundraiser Afghanistan in the subject line.  

Fundraisers Supporting Afghans is based on the model of an earlier programme of 
fundraising coaching, which took place in 2020 – 2021, initiated by the Welsh government,
through the Institute of Fundraising Cymru (IOFC) and WCVA (Welsh Council for Voluntary
Associations), in response to the Covid emergency and its impact on the voluntary
sector in Wales.   

This was also delivered by Richard Newton Consulting, and supported 160+ charities
and voluntary groups, which ranged from sports projects to community groups working
with children and young people. In all, the programme supported Welsh groups to 
raise over £100,000 to grow their resilience.