Kage Partnership publish annual salary survey on 5th anniversary

Howard Lake | 21 January 2003 | News

Fundraising recruitment specialists, the Kage Partnership, are marking their fifth anniversary this month with the publication of their latest annual salary survey.

Kage Partnership’s survey is good news for trust fundraisers since it confirms that they are continuing to command salaries equal to their corporate fundraising colleagues. There is still a shortage of experienced job applicants in this area. There have not been enough new entrants coming into trust fundraising in recent years, partly due to the lack of training opportunities and partly due to the relatively low profile of this type of work.

“Junior fundraising applicants come to us wanting to get into events or corporate fundraising and tend to be completely unaware of trusts roles,” say Kage.

The company suggests that there may be a shift in the fundraising job market this year with the falling returns on investments and the reduction in funds available from trusts and foundations. “Cautious budgeting in the charity sector and shrinking job opportunities in the commercial sector are beginning to change the emphasis away from what has been an applicants’ market for some time now,” comments the company. “However, there is no doubt that experienced fundraisers with a proven track record are still highly sought after.”

A summary of the 2003 salary survey is available from Kage Partnership.

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.