# Five tweets for fundraisers on 4 November 2022 - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2022/11/04/five-tweets-for-fundraisers-on-4-november-2022/ - Published: 2022-11-04T17:07:00+00:00 - Author: Howard Lake **Here are some more choice tweets for fundraisers’ edification, inspiration or amusement. We’ve got a charitable repeated theme tune, regular giving tools on Facebook coming up, and fundraising truisms on a t-shirt.** ## 1. Counting up Countdown’s donations Alan Hawkshaw, who has died at the age of 84, was a prolific and talented composer who created many pieces that you might recognise from TV themes. Grange Hill, Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World, the Milk Tray TV advert, Channel 4 News, and Dave Allen at Large were all his. ## Advertisement [⌊Posthub advert. You create the campaign. We'll handle the postal journey. Get started at post-hub.co.uk.⌉](https://fundraising.co.uk/ads/posthub-20261007-300x250/) You might know his work best from the quiz show Countdown. What you might not know is that he donated the royalties to that often-played work to fund music students through college. > Alan Hawkshaw donated the royalties for this to pay fees for underprivileged music > students. Every time it plays, someone gets a bit of time in college. [https://t.co/gmxPZhIB7R](https://t.co/gmxPZhIB7R) > [pic.twitter.com/ofvDMfwze3](https://t.co/ofvDMfwze3) > — Matthew Sweet (@DrMatthewSweet) [October 16, 2021](https://twitter.com/DrMatthewSweet/status/1449443606444580867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Since a silent GIF won’t raise anything, here’s that countdown in all its musical, fundraising glory: Do you know of other artistic rights that have been donated? I’d like to pull together a list. [JM Barrie, Peter Pan and Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital](https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/10/08/new-peter-pan-logo-great-ormond-street/) is probably the most famous. ## 2. Put that on a t-shirt > I'm getting this put on a t-shirt… > Along with:"All the low hanging fruit has been > eaten by the unicorns" Bernard Ross"Everyone is NOT a fundraiser" [@ClaireWarner](https://twitter.com/ClaireWarner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)" > Stop WE-ing all over your copy" [@Beth_Upton](https://twitter.com/Beth_Upton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > [https://t.co/lGVQ9jZjVb](https://t.co/lGVQ9jZjVb) [pic.twitter.com/A68BC78otm](https://t.co/A68BC78otm) > — Caroline Danks (she / her) (@LarkOwlUK) [October 21, 2021](https://twitter.com/LarkOwlUK/status/1451112533289472004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ## 3. Facebook fundraising growth > How 37 non-profits help build a $5 billion empire. > A guide – in 20 tweets – to > understanding how Facebook Fundraising has evolved since 2016.⬇️⬇️⬇️ [pic.twitter.com/EXKpoz8hiL](https://t.co/EXKpoz8hiL) > — Simon Varley 🚀 (@SJVarley) [October 14, 2021](https://twitter.com/SJVarley/status/1448545540229279744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ## 4. Fundraising, fndraising, fudnraising… It looks like I’m not the only one that manages to spell ‘fundraising’ in many different ways, with or without autocorrect leaping to my defence. > Considering it’s one of the words I use the most… > I sure type fudnraising wrong > a lot 🧐 > — Matt Smith (@InnovationMatt) [November 5, 2021](https://twitter.com/InnovationMatt/status/1456619498090422273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ## 5. Your regular Meta update on what’s coming soon And here’s a bit more to increase further the growth in Facebook giving, described above. Dan Papworth-Smyth keeps his eye on Facebook fundraising developments, and has spotted some new regular giving tools coming soon to US nonprofits. As always with Meta this means that there will be a delay before they are rolled out to UK charities. This has usually been a matter of months in the past, so perhaps you’ll get your hands on them in early 2023. > Meta are launching some awesome sounding recurring giving tools in the US (no > UK launch date yet, I've asked) > ➡️Automated messaging journey creation for recurring > donors ➡️Communication preference management ➡️Recurring giving campaign build > [https://t.co/G8gMk530AU](https://t.co/G8gMk530AU) [pic.twitter.com/gUBKSIP6v6](https://t.co/gUBKSIP6v6) > — Dan Papworth-Smyth (@dansmythphoto) [November 3, 2022](https://twitter.com/dansmythphoto/status/1588113827668828160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) * **[Five tweets for fundraisers for 24 January 2023](https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/01/24/five-tweets-for-fundraisers-for-24-january-2023/)( 24 January 2023) * **[Five tweets for fundraisers on 29 January 2021](https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/01/29/five-tweets-for-fundraisers-on-29-january-2021/)( 29 January 2021) * **[Five tweets for fundraisers on 21 February 2019](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/02/21/five-tweets-for-fundraisers-on-21-february-2019/)( 21 February 2019)**