Donorfy Together Conference 2025
Agenda
Early Bird and 3 for 2 offers still available!
Streams
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Stream 1 - Inspiration
Hear outstanding stories, conversations, and insights from key voices across the fundraising landscape.
These sessions will explore the universal challenges that charities face, from new technology to managing mental health, and share how to keep being successful in the ever-changing third sector.
Taking place in the Panorama Suite
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Stream 2 - Innovation
See examples of time-saving technical triumph from the Donorfy community.
These talks dive into the detail about how Donorfy users are transforming their data management and campaigns.
Taking place in the Viewpoint Room
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Join drop-in sessions from our Gold Sponsors: Microsoft, Dotdigital and MAST.
Taking place in multiple drop-in rooms.
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Fast-track your Donorfy knowledge through meeting a Donorfy expert one-to-one.
Appointments opening soon!
Taking place in and near Reception
Stream 1 - Inspiration
Hear outstanding stories, conversations, and insights from key voices across the fundraising landscape.
These sessions will explore the universal challenges that charities face, from new technology to managing mental health, and share how to keep being successful in the ever-changing third sector.
Taking place in the Panorama Suite
Stream 2 - Innovation
See examples of time-saving technical triumph from the Donorfy community.
These talks dive into the detail about how Donorfy users are transforming their data management and campaigns.
Taking place in the Viewpoint Room
Join drop-in sessions from our Gold Sponsors: Microsoft, Dotdigital and MAST.
Taking place in multiple drop-in rooms.
Fast-track your Donorfy knowledge through meeting a Donorfy expert one-to-one.
Appointments opening soon!
Taking place in and near Reception
Schedule
Wednesday 5 March
7pm - The Big Donorfy Quiz
The Townhouse Hotel, 101 Portland St, Manchester M1 6DF
Join the Donorfy team for a fun social the day before we kick off Donorfy Together 2025.
More details soon!
Thursday 6 March
9am - Registration & Breakfast
9.45am: Welcome from the Donorfy Team
Panorama suite
Hear from Donorfy about all the exciting things taking place throughout the day.
10.20am
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Wearing many hats - Navigating multiple responsibilities for small charities
Elizabeth Hutton OBE - CEO, Kicks Count Charity
Stream 1: Inspiration - Panorama SuiteFundraising Bigger Picture Charity Presentation
Elizabeth Hutton OBE, CEO of pregnancy charity Kicks Count, will share her inspiring journey and her experience juggling multiple roles in a small charity, offering valuable insights into making an impact with limited resources.
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Enhancing impact through the Donorfy CRM and Community
John Gandy - Data Manager, Huntington's Disease Association
Stream 2: Innovation - Viewpoint RoomIntegrations Donorfy Community Fireside Chat
John Gandy is an experienced data handler and excels at maximising and integrating Donorfy at Huntington's Disease Association.
Join this session to see how you can enhance your impact through Donorfy:
- The Donorfy Community
- Untangling data
- Integrations including Xero, Mailchimp and JustGiving
- Tracking communications
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Dotdigital Drop-In Session
The Dotdigital Zone (Light Room)
Drop-In Integrations Marketing Automation
The Donorfy Dotdigital integration enables you to send segmented email communications to your constituents. Join this special drop-in session if you'd like to find more about the integration, and how Dotdigital supports you to make every touchpoint count and every experience invaluable for your supporters.
The Dotdigital Zone will also be open after this session, so you can chat with Dotdigital about to how to enhance your supporter journeys!
11am: Morning Break
11.30am
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From small gifts to big impact - Engaging donors for the long term
Panel hosted by Molly Prentice - Business Development Manager at Donorfy
Featuring Switchboard LGBT + and Special Guests TBC
Stream 1: Inspiration - Panorama SuiteDonor Experience Individual Giving & Direct Mail Charity Panel
This conversation will explore how charities can understand donor motivations at every stage of their journey, from the first small gift to becoming major contributors. Topics will include:
- How leveraging data supports personalised donor experiences
- Maximising lifetime donor value
- Improving donor retention
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Measuring impact effectively
Chloe Parker - Director at Core Insights, a Donorfy Partner
Stream 2: Innovation - Viewpoint RoomData Insights CRM Health Check Donorfy Partner Presentation
However long you’ve been using Donorfy, sometimes it will need a bit of TLC. Chloe will be talking about how a Health Check can ensure you're getting the most from your Donorfy system. She'll also discuss how you can use new technologies to measure your impact.
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Mast Drop-In Session
The Mast Zone (Perspective Room)
Drop-In Advanced Users
After days or decades, there is always something to learn about how you get great reporting from your CRM. Let Mast add some simplicity here with their special drop-in session.
The Mast Zone will also be open before and after this session, where the Mast Team will be all ears to answer your questions on the Donorfy API, Power BI and more!
12.20pm
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Engaging communities in the digital age
Panel hosted by Ben Twyman - Director at Donorfy
Featuring Kirsty Murray from Longfield Hospice, Will Swan-Bell from Enthuse and Special Guests TBCStream 1: Inspiration - Panorama Suite
Events & Community Integrations Panel
This panel will discuss how Donorfy and other digital platforms can enhance community involvement and drive large-scale fundraising events. Topics will include:
- Using data to personalise engagement and build online/in-person communities that inspire action.
- Tracking participation, measuring success and refining strategies for effective, community-led initiatives.
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Turbocharging your campaign with data-driven decisions
Robert Parkin - CRM Manager, North West Air Ambulance Charity
Stream 2: Innovation - Viewpoint RoomIntegrations Data Presentation
Robert Parkin is CRM Manager at NWAA. Through utilising Donorfy integrations like Dataro and Dotdigital, this charity has automated processes, gained key data insights and enhanced campaigns. Expect to see plenty of data tricks and technical excellence.
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Microsoft Drop-In Session
The Microsoft Zone (Outlook Room)
Drop-In
Microsoft Tech for Social Impact is dedicated to providing affordable and accessible technology to help charities of all sizes achieve their mission. If you're looking to enhance your cybersecurity, move more to the cloud or develop mobile and web apps, join this special drop-in session from Microsoft to find out more.
The Microsoft Zone will also be open before this session, so you can chat to the Microsoft Team all things 365, Azure Grants for Nonprofits, Power Apps and more!
1pm: Lunch
The Calm in the Cause
Keynote Talk
Joshua Fletcher
1.50pm
Panorama Suite
Josh is a best-selling author, podcast host, and a highly regarded psychotherapist with a specialised focus on anxiety disorders. He'll be delivering an insightful keynote talk about mental wellbeing, and how charities can manage stress and anxiety in their challenging, transformational work.
2.40pm:
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Forming fantastic donor journeys
Andi Best - Donorfy Partner
Stream 1: Inspiration - Panorama SuiteForms API Donorfy Partner Presentation
After becoming a Donorfy Partner in 2015, and sharing great insights at Donorfy Together 2023 and 2024, Andi Best is back again!
Andi will deliver an educational session that digs into three worlds: Forms, Web Widgets and the API. See how form construction is taken to a new level through customisation. Learn how to create spectacular supporter journeys. Understand how widgets can make your website pop through compact design. Gain insight into what the Donorfy API actually is, and what’s made possible through custom integrations - all with recent and relevant examples from the charity sector. -
Visualising your data with Donorfy dashboards and lists
Donorfy Customer Success
Stream 2: Innovation - Viewpoint RoomData Reporting Workshop New Users Deep Dive from Donorfy
Bring your laptop for this interactive session on building great reports in Donorfy!
The workshop will go through key building blocks from concepts all the way to analysing success:- See how recent Donorfy developments like List Visualisations and New Dashboards can transform your data reporting.
- Learn how you can take advantage of these tools to gain more insights in less time.
- Gain top tips for your team for building useful reports.
The Donorfy Awards 2025
Celebrate
Hosted once again by Duncan Hook!
3.30pm
Panorama Suite
We love the Donorfy Community and are constantly in awe of everything it achieves for amazing causes.
We will be hosting a short awards ceremony to recognise a few of the many inspirational indivduals and organisations in the Donorfy Community. We will be announcing four awards. Nominate yourself or someone else here!
4pm - Networking Drinks
Have a drink on us back in the Donorfy Hub!
Agenda subject to change. More session details soon.