Find anything your charity needs, for free:

• Funding Finder - with categories for Core Funding and Small Charities & Community Groups and 100s of links to other free charity funding directories.
• Help Finder – including finding companies that make donations and raffle prizes.
• Data Finder – find charity information & data, and donation & giving statistics.

Significant grants in the last fortnight have secured the charity’s future. I wanted you to share in our feeling of jubilation, celebration. Keep up the great work!

Plus our 100+ downloadable charity funding lists and 60+ policy templates.

“Undoubtedly, we would not still be here without this brilliant resource.  For smaller charities you are an absolute lifeline”.

Your personal charity digital mentor - the 8 personalised health check questionnaires assess every area of management. Use your interactive dashboard to identify ways to achieve even more and export action plans to get started.

CEF is a brilliant "everything in one place" help, for charity, their trustees,
staff and volunteers, whether you need 'beginners level' or 'advanced'.

It also taps into and promotes the whole charity sector, giving you click through to a huge range of free downloadable resources, tools, templates, policies and guides from 1000s of organisations that provide grant funding, pro bono help and free goods and services to charities.

There was particular praise for the tool (Charity Excellence) being easy to use, having a wide range of resources, relevant templates and examples and a traffic light summary which visually represents how charities are doing.  Lloyds Bank Foundation

Complete all 8 questionnaires (usually 1 to 2 hours) to achieve the Quality Mark and demonstrate to grant makers and other stakeholders your charity's commitment to excellence.

“It’s brilliant!! and has given me a full action plan and focus, really helping with improving the organisation - Thank you.”

We’ve been designing and building charity AI since 2022. Our AI Ready programme enables any charity to assess its readiness and gives you everything you need to ensure your charity uses AI effectively and safely. Our Charity Excellence Learning courses requires no AI expertise and enables anyone to use AI effectively, stay safe and gain valuable career skills.

The website AI bunny helps you navigate the system and also supports individuals connects individuals to grant funding and welfare support. Once you login, the in-system AI Bunny can write funding bids, download policies and act as your personal fundraising advisor.

92% said they were definitely likely to recommend the (Charity Excellence) tool to other organisations.  Lloyds Bank Foundation