Arts and Culture Fundraising Benchmark report

The Cause4 Arts and Culture Fundraising Benchmark aims to support leaders and managers to assess their organisation’s performance and compare it to their peers.

The insights from this report and a web-based dashboard enable this analysis. This latest benchmark includes the latest data for 2019/20, covering 747 organisations in the Arts Council England national portfolio.

These key findings both at a national level and in the perspectives by sector, geography, turnover band and building usage are designed to enable the reader to think about which are the most useful in describing what normal looks like and then go on to compare your organisations’ result to these norms.

In the current climate of significant change and uncertainty, this data can be used to assess just how far away from known workable models we are at present. Whilst this might not offer any direct route back, we suggest it is worth understanding just how far out of the known and its relative comfort we are indeed operating!