Online option
Two x .5 days a week at your home or desk
The online version of the school lets you build your fundraising skills and confidence without pressing pause on the rest of your life. It’s designed to fit around busy diaries, but still deliver serious progress.
Places are capped at just 15 participants, so you get personalised support, practical guidance, and the space to turn learning into a strategy that actually works for you and your organisation.
The core programme runs over five consecutive weeks, combining:
- short, watch-when-you-want video inputs
- live online tutorials
- interactive case studies
- one-to-one coaching tailored to your context
You’ll benefit from onboarding before the programme starts and implementation support afterwards — because learning only matters if it sticks.
The time commitment is realistic : around 4–5 hours a week, including roughly 3 hours of live sessions. And if life gets in the way? All the live sessions are recorded so birthdays, holidays, last-minute meetings and real-world emergencies don’t mean falling behind.
Our next Online programme runs from 11th May 2026 until 9th June 2026 (11,12,18,19,25,26 May + 1,2,5,8,9 June).
We’ve designed the online programme to be genuinely engaging. Sessions are delivered on Zoom, but used creatively, with breakout rooms, live discussion and hands-on exercises. We also bring in interactive tools like Slido and Stormboard to capture ideas and to test thinking and learn from one another in real time.
Between sessions, you’ll stay connected through a WhatsApp group— a space to share ideas, ask questions and keep the conversation going informally. Every week, you’ll have the opportunity for a conversation with a programme leader answering questions.
This is learning by doing designed for cultural professionals keen to improve.
- The chance to absorb and reflect with 2x 1.5 hours a week contact time, and the rest free for ‘work’.
- Personal programme leader support, and guaranteed personal catch up every week.
- More ways to learn with case studies, small group Zoom sessions, plenaries, and course work.
- Opportunities to actually develop your strategy in real time.
- Catch up learning: every session recorded so you can catch up when suits you.
- Small group learning opportunities in a case studies home team.
- Back up materials included with the 350-page workbook to help develop your learning.
- The chance to share experience and insight with other participants.
Every NAFS programme is adapted from the results of your pre-programme questionnaire and your initial One to One coaching.
Whichever option you choose, you’ll increase your knowledge and confidence in different sources: individual giving; major donors; legacies; trusts; and commercial sponsorship. We’ll also share techniques and channels: endowments, capital campaigns, face to face, direct mail, proposals and online. Finally, we’ll help you shape all this into a sustainable strategy. Only NAFS offers this integration.
Want to know more about the modules? Find out more here.
The online programme offers one to one coaching with an expert programme leader, access to the five-week programme, 24/7 access to the learning portal, 90 days free follow up support, and your personal copy of the comprehensive 350-page manual. Your all-inclusive investment? £999.00.
Throughout the School you’ll have a personal coach guiding you through the process. They’ll have one to one session with you before the school and after, plus small group sessions over the five weeks.
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Our 2026 programmes
11th May - 9th June 2026
Live sessions on key dates: 11,12,18,19,25,26 May + 1,2,5,8,9 June.
