Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 3
Pearson BTEC Level 3 Certificate 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 credits30
- Units in this qualification18
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
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
The Evidence Evaluator
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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
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
- Lead others in the achievement of fundraising work
- Maintain relationships integral to the campaign
- 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.
See the whole journey →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 Certificate in Fundraising Practice (QCF)
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Budgeting for the Business
- Develop a plan for fundraising activities
- Implement a plan for fundraising activities
- Introduction to fundraising
- Know how to plan and implement fundraising events
- Know how to plan and implement local or community fundraising
and 12 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.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.