This Remember a Charity Week (8-14 September 2025), Kurstin Finch Gnehm explores why building your capacity to solicit and receive legacy gifts has never been more important.

With annual legacy income at £4.5bn in the UK and forecast to reach over £10bn by 2050, the time to make the case for investment is now.

At the CASE Spring Institute in Educational Fundraising 2025, C&C Senior Partner Kurstin Finch Gnehm and Dr Joanna McGarry (University of Bristol) hosted a session titled “Social media glow-up: LinkedIn edition.”

This article offers a summary of what they shared during the session, with three practical actions you can take to raise your LinkedIn game.

This survey of higher education institutions in the UK and Ireland is our most comprehensive source of data on sector-wide philanthropy trends. It provides a valuable benchmark to understand how your fundraising efforts compare to peers across the sector. Here, we share our takeaways.

Get to know the Cairney & Company team more! Every quarter, as part of our newsletter we’ll feature a member of our team so you can get to know a little bit about each of them. This time, we get to know Strategic Delivery Partner, Michael Lavery.

If you were at the IDPE Annual Conference, you may have caught Annarosa Muscatelli and Kurstin Finch Gnehm’s major gift solicitation masterclass. If not, or if you’re ready for a refresher, we’ve rounded up their top tips in this ten-point guide to help make sure your next ask hits the mark. 

As employees and team leaders, there are things we can each do to prevent burnout in fundraising. This Mental Health Awareness Week, our Senior Partner Kurstin Finch Gnehm reflects on steps we can take to safeguard ourselves and our teams.

Whether you're a first-time conference attendee or a seasoned pro, Cairney & Company Senior Consultant, Annarosa Muscatelli, shares her top ten tips that will help you turn your next conference into a truly valuable experience.

Get to know the Cairney & Company team more! Every quarter, as part of our newsletter we’ll feature a member of our team so you can get to know a little bit about each of them. This time, we get to know Client Relations & Content Marketing Manager, Catherine!

While the majority of us make new year’s resolutions, only between 8-30% of us keep them for more than a few weeks. We know the best prediction of a person’s behaviour is to look at what they have done in the past – so instead of new resolutions, the Cairney & Company team share good habits they’ve picked up in the last year and intend to take into 2025.

Building a high-value fundraising operations team is essential for driving long-term growth and maximising donor impact. Here are Senior Partner, Kurstin Finch-Gnehm’s top ten tips…

The topic everyone is talking about in the education world: VAT. In this blog, Senior Consultant Annarosa Muscatelli explores what this means for the sector and what Cairney & Company’s top takeaways are.

Get to know the Cairney & Company team more! Every quarter, as part of our newsletter we’ll feature a member of our team so you can get to know a little bit about each of them. This time, we get to know Senior Partner, Kurstin Finch Gnehm!

Founder and CEO of Cairney and Company, Karen Cairney, recently had the pleasure of meeting with Professor Jon Timmis, the new Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University to discuss the first year in his new role, his unconventional route to Higher Education and the transformational impact universities can have on lives.

Amidst the current financial stresses in higher education, where does advancement fit in supporting the institutions we work in and with?  

Get to know the Cairney & Company team more! Every quarter, as part of our newsletter we’ll feature a member of our team so you can get to know a little bit about each of them. This time, we get to know Cairney Partner, Alex Scott

Have you ever wondered how to grab the attention of your donors and differentiate yourself... Senior Consultant, Annarosa Muscatelli, explores this in the final part of the blog series on Major Donor Stewardship.

Founder and CEO of Cairney and Company, Karen Cairney, had the pleasure to meet recently with Professor Nic Beech, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford to discuss his first year in post, the civic role of the University and the potential of philanthropy and alumni engagement to support the University’s ambitions.

Get to know the Cairney & Company team more! Every quarter, as part of our newsletter we’ll feature a member of our team so you can get to know a little bit about each of them. This time, we get to know Senior Consultant, Annarosa!

Here are our key takeaways from the CASE Insights on Philanthropy survey (formerly the CASE-Ross Survey).