Access to Bespoke Practical Tools and Resources to Grow Your Income

For more than ten years, Achates has been the loyal advisor and friend of the cultural sector helping organisations develop resilience with integrity. We start with the work and, by focusing on audiences and income generation, we create innovative models informed by each organisation’s distinctive qualities. As Achates has grown, so has our bank of resources and tools; each carefully designed and proven to support cultural organisations to embed best practice and generate sustainable and diverse income.

One of those tools is Achates’ 8 Types of Impact of Culture and Heritage©, which we have shared with more than 300 cultural organisations from across the UK to offer clear and simple linguistic tools with which to express the impact organisations are creating through their work. No single organisation creates all 8 impacts, nor should they attempt to do so; it is as an ecosystem that we create all 8. Considering the impact of your work in this way allows for a richer and more nuanced articulation of an organisation’s purpose and theory of change, which can underpin a more distinctive and compelling case for support, as well as inform new income generation activity which enhances your financial bottom line whilst furthering your organisational purpose. 

Not only will Achates Community go live with 50 support and learning masterclasses, live webinars and peer discussion forums; there will also be a huge range of turnkey tools and materials, such as the 8 Types of Impact of Culture and Heritage © and its associated impact framework offering a pick and mix of outputs and outcomes enabling you to quickly build a unified impact framework, ready to help you to strengthen and sharpen your income generation activity. Designed by Achates sector professionals, for sector professionals; the toolkits offer sector trends and cultural philanthropy data, key resources, prompts to aid decision making and clear planning and delivery frameworks all in one place. So, you can access what you need, when you need it, without having to divert your attention away from your day-to-day delivery.

Resources range from tools to support you in evolving your corporate giving programme and the key components for establishing and evolving your organisation’s major donor strategy, through to developing your organisational purpose and theory of change. Achates Community will launch with a wealth of tools and resources to help you build and deliver targeted and impactful income generation.

So, whether your organisation or team’s burning question is “What’s the best way to conduct an audit of our fundraising?”, ‘Is our corporate fundraising strategy up to scratch?” or ‘Where are the latest tools and data sources for prospect research?” – with Achates Community we’ve got you covered.

As an Achates Community subscriber you’ll have direct access to this wide range of tools and resources, enabling you to work at pace and make a demonstrable impact on building resilient income streams.

Sign up to the waiting list for Achates Community here.