The Brutal Facts

Join us for a one-day interactive learning experience which will transform your understanding of how major gifts are actually secured.

Over the last 21 years we have been through unprecedented financial turmoil: a financial crash in in 2008-9 and a global pandemic in 2020-21. Over the same time, UK trusts have tripled their grantmaking. What’s going on and why?

An Afternoon & Evening of Business, Ideas, Connection and Celebration Monday 27 April 2026 at 2:00pm – 10:00pm The Africa Centre, Southwark, London This is a partnership between the Segal Family Foundation, global leaders in trust based philanthropy in Africa; and Fundraising Training Ltd, specialists in the sustainability of emerging organsations around the world.

African Organizations Building to Last: What would it take for African civil society organizations to thrive without perpetual dependence on international grant funding, and what role should funders play in making that transition possible?