Appendix A - Online survey questions

Summary

Filter question 1:

This survey is only for people who currently work in the UK as paid fundraisers, either in-house, freelance or as consultants and including those on a planned career break, maternity leave or similar. Please confirm that you fit this description.

Filter question 2:

This survey is being distributed through many networks, but it is important that people only complete it once. Please confirm that this is the first time you are completing this survey.

Section 1: Experience as a paid fundraiser

1) How many years in total have you worked as a paid fundraiser?

2) What area of fundraising do you mostly work in? Please select the one option that best reflects your role.

Major donors; Community/Individuals; Corporate; Trusts and Foundations; Legacies; Trading; Generalist (including major donors); Generalist (not including major donors); Direct marking; Digital; Other (please specify)

2a) Supplementary question only for those who select ‘Generalist (including major donors)’:

Please indicate how much of your time you spend working with major donors

Rarely; Sometimes; Around half my time; Most of my time

3) If you do not currently work with major donors, have you ever done so in the past?

4) What is the single biggest gift you have ever secured? Please note that colleagues and volunteers may have been involved in the process, for example by helping with cultivation and asking.

Section 2: Background, training and professional qualifications

5) Which statement best describes how you came to work as a paid fundraiser?

I always wanted to work as a fundraiser; I came into this work gradually through related professional and volunteering roles; I fell into fundraising by accident; Other (please specify)

5a) Supplementary question for those who chose ‘I fell into fundraising by accident’:

Before you ‘fell into fundraising’, what was your main occupation?

6) Please select the response that best describes your background and present situation

Definitely disagree; Tend to disagree; Neither agree nor disagree; Tend to agree; Definitely agree

6a) I grew up in a family where it was normal to help others and to ask for help.

6b) I borrow things from, and exchange favours with, my neighbours.