The Fundraiser Survey 2026

The Fundraiser Survey is for individual fundraisers at all career stages. It focuses on personal experiences and career journeys, including:
  • How people enter fundraising and progress
  • Pay, promotion and transparency
  • Workplace culture, inclusion and wellbeing
  • Experiences of bias, support or exclusion
  • How background (including socio‑economic background) has affected access and opportunity
  • Whether fundraisers feel valued, supported and able to stay in the profession
This helps us understand fundraising from the inside out - what it feels like to build a career in fundraising today.

Your responses are anonymous and will be used to understand what shapes access to and progression within the profession.

Optional prize draw – win a donation for your charity
As a thank you for taking part, respondents can choose to enter a prize draw, and three fundraisers will win a £250 donation to the charity they work for or support.

To ensure your survey remains anonymous, prize draw entries will be collected separately and cannot be linked to your responses.

Privacy Notice
The Chartered Institute of Fundraising of Canopi, 82 Tanner Street, London SE1 3GN is the data controller. The information you provide in this survey is completely anonymised unless you choose to share information with us so that we can contact you regarding your feedback should we need to. Please visit our website to see our full privacy statement.