Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 3
Pearson BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Fundraising Practice (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits62
- Units in this qualification33
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Budgeting for the BusinessReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relevance of budgets and the importance of operating within them
- Construct and manage a budget
Contribute to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adultsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand their organisation’s policies, procedures and practices for safe working with children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Understand the importance of working in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed
Develop a plan for fundraising activitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to develop a fundraising plan
- Develop a fundraising plan with colleagues and other stakeholders
- Test a fundraising plan
Ensure your own actions reduce risks to health and safetyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legal and organisational requirements in relation to health and safety
- Identify hazards and evaluate risks in the workplace
- Reduce risks to health and safety in the workplace
Evaluate the programme of workReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the programme of work
- Understand evaluation activities
- Understand how to evaluate a programme of work
- Evaluate the programme of work
Implement a plan for fundraising activitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to implement a fundraising plan
- Implement a fundraising plan
- Monitor the implementation of a fundraising plan
Introduction to campaigningReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand campaigning
- Understand campaign strategies
- Understand campaigning techniques, methods and audiences
Introduction to fundraisingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand fundraising activities
- Understand fundraising information and regulation
- Understand funding sources and fundraising resources, income sources and budgets
Introduction to managing volunteersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand managing volunteers
- Understand policies and procedures relating to the management of volunteers
- Understand the management of volunteers
Know how to plan and implement fundraising eventsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand fundraising events
- Plan a fundraising event
- Consult others in events based fundraising
- Manage a fundraising event plan
Know how to plan and implement local or community fundraisingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand local or community fundraising
- Develop a local or community fundraising plan
- Consult others in local or community fundraising
- Manage a local or community fundraising plan
Know how to plan and support corporate fundraising activityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand corporate fundraising
- Plan corporate fundraising
- Consult others in corporate fundraising
- Gain corporate support
- Manage a corporate fundraising plan
Know how to plan and support fundraising through electronic mediaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand electronic media fundraising
- Plan fundraising through electronic media
- Consult others in electronic media fundraising
- Manage an e-fundraising plan
Know how to plan and support legacy fundraisingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legacy fundraising
- Plan legacy fundraising
- Consult others in legacy fundraising
- Manage a legacy fundraising plan
Know how to plan and support major gift fundraisingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand major gift fundraising
- Know the information required to plan major gift fundraising
- Consult others in major gift fundraising
- Manage a major gift fundraising plan
Know how to plan and support the generation of grant incomeReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand grant income generation
- Plan the generation of grant income
- Consult others in grant fundraising
- Manage a grant fundraising plan
Know how to plan and support the recruitment of donors using direct marketing mediaReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of fundraising through direct marketing activity, including legal and ethical considerations.
- Plan fundraising campaigns using various direct marketing channels, setting realistic targets and budgets.
- Consult with relevant stakeholders and specialists when planning direct marketing activities for fundraising.
- Support the recruitment of donors through targeted direct marketing initiatives, ensuring a positive donor experience.
- Manage a direct marketing activity plan, monitoring performance and making adjustments to maximise effectiveness.
Maintain and enhance relationships with supporters of your causeReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand supporters of a cause
- Maintain existing levels of support
- Maintain and develop support
- Maintain and develop support
Make effective decisionsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify circumstances that require a decision to be made.
- Collect information to inform decision-making.
- Analyse information to inform decision-making.
- Make a decision.
Manage customer service in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Establish and communicate measurable customer service standards for own area of responsibility.
- Support staff in meeting customer service standards.
- Monitor and evaluate customer service performance, systems and processes.
Managing and Developing Relationships in the WorkplaceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Examine the needs and expectations of others
- Meet the needs and expectations of others
- Manage relationships where it is not possible to meet the need or expectations of others
Monitor the programme of workReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the programme of work
- Understand monitoring activities
- Monitor the progress of the programme of work
Negotiation and InfluencingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the aims and principles of effective negotiation and influencing skills.
- Know a variety of negotiation and influencing techniques and when they should be used.
- Demonstrate effective negotiation and influencing skills based on reflective practice.
Project ManagementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles of project management, including planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
- Produce a detailed project plan that clearly defines aims, outcomes, timelines, resources, and responsibilities.
- Implement the project plan effectively, managing resources and addressing challenges as they arise.
- Evaluate the success of the project against the original aims and outcomes, identifying lessons learned for future projects.
Set objectives and provide support for team membersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate a team’s purpose and objectives to the team members.
- Develop a plan with team members showing how team objectives will be met.
- Support team members identifying opportunities and providing support.
- Monitor and evaluate progress and recognise individual and team achievement.
Support marketing activitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand marketing principles and the importance of branding and corporate identity in marketing.
- Identify the target audience and desired outcomes of marketing activity.
- Support the preparation, costing and implementation of an ongoing marketing plan.
- Support the production of marketing materials.
- Collect and analyse data to inform future marketing actions.
Support others in the achievement of fundraising workReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand fundraising work
- Understand own role and role of the team
- Support others in fundraising work
- Support the team
Support team members in identifying, developing and implementing new ideasReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop team ideas and develop the creativity of team members
- Assess the viability of team members’ ideas.
- Support team members to implement ideas.
- Implement team ideas.
Understand effective partnership working between organisationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how partnership working can help an organisation achieve its mission
- Understand how partnership working is governed
- Understand how to work in partnership with other organisations
Understand sustainability in voluntary sector organisationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand an organisation’s position in the voluntary sector
- Understand how to sustain a voluntary sector organisation
- Understand the importance of environmental sustainability in voluntary sector organisations
Understand the nature and governance of the voluntary sectorReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure of the voluntary sector
- Understand the policies and legislation that govern the sector
- Understand the governance of voluntary sector organisations
Understand values, ethics and safeguarding in the voluntary sectorReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand values and ethics in the voluntary sector
- Understand the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion in the voluntary sector
- Understand safeguarding in the voluntary sector
Working in administrationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the role of an administrator within business and administration
- Understand legislation affecting the work of administrators within a business environment
- Understand health and safety issues that affect the work of administrators within a business environment
- Understand the importance of organising their work area within a business environmentearning Outcome
- Carry out administrative processes in a business environment
- Reflect on own performance when carrying out administrative tasks in a business environment
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Assist with planning fundraising activity
- Ensure the effective functioning of the voluntary or community organisation’s Board of Trustees
- Lead others in the achievement of fundraising work
- Manage the induction of volunteers
- Represent Fundraising to the Board
Where this can lead
Senior Nonprofit Marketing Specialist
Your career path here is really what you make of it. We're committed to your growth, and we'll provide opportunities to learn, lead, and make a profound difference. If you bring the drive and the talent, we'll help you build a truly rewarding career.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Fundraising Practice (QCF)
33 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Budgeting for the Business
- Contribute to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults
- Develop a plan for fundraising activities
- Ensure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety
- Evaluate the programme of work
- Implement a plan for fundraising activities
and 27 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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