Public Library closure threat means more call for Professional Fundraisers

The potential public library closures as a combined result of public spending cuts and reduced usage have been in the news this week.

In response to this, the third sector will surely be called upon to combat the closures.  Closing something so integral to the community as a library will not go down lightly.  Fundraising professionals should be prepared to offer consultancy or to develop their own responses to these closures.

This might mean that as fundraisers we are entering areas they we have never worked on before, which can be intimidating.    

As we enter an even longer period of financial uncertainty, more and more factions of private and public sector industries will look to the third sector for assistance to help them retain their donors, uphold their causes and obtain new clientèle.  

Learning new skills that will contest brutal spending cuts will be a worthy investment for third sector organisations.  The time for standing still has passed; if we are to flourish we must develop and counteract. 


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Sarah Bradley 

Institute of Fundraising Academy