About us

The Fundraisers was set up by Julie Eason in 2014. Hannah Travers joined in 2020 as a Director. Both Julie and Hannah are award winning fundraisers with decades of experience, and with strong track records in growing the charities we worked with.

We are proud of our track record, and high success rates

Currently clients are up to12 times more likely to receive a grant if they work with the fundraisers. In the past 12 months we have achieved the following success rates:

100% record with Heritage Lottery Fund applications

82.5% success rate with the Arts Council

100% record with National Lottery Community Fund (awards for all) and 75% success rate on Reaching Communities.

The team regularly secure major gifts from the Garfield Weston Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, John Ellerman Foundation, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, Garfield Weston, local and national governments and International Trusts & Foundations.

In light of the complaints of sexual harassment and assault raised at the Chartered Institute of Fundraising, and subsequent lack of action, we have chosen to resign our membership

We stand in solidarity with the women who experienced this terrible behaviour, and who have tried to engage in an open and frank conversation to ensure complaints of sexual misconduct are never again ignored or covered up. We hope that fundraisers will stand together with us to expedite the change needed and we remain optimistic that fundraisers will in the future; have a membership body we can all be proud to be part of.