Struggling to reduce your dependence on Trusts & Foundations?
We get it. At The Fundraising Gorilla, we help you grow generous, wholehearted, repeat monthly giving — so your reserves stay strong, and you’re free to plan with confidence, not panic over every grant cycle.
"It's one of the best trainings I've ever attended and I could not recommend it enough!”
— Amy Hippsley, Supporter Engagement and Communications Projects Manager Refugee Education UK
The path to financial stability and supporter joy isn’t paved with more pressure — it’s built on one small shift
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→ Use your Email Newsletter as a Growth Engine.Done right, it’s the most powerful — and most overlooked — tool in your fundraising toolkit.The Fundraising Gorilla gives you the system to build trust on autopilot, grow sustainably, and reduce grant dependence.Think of it like a reliable grant towards your core costs.
Why This Matters
Your cause is urgent. But your comms are maxed out.
Most mid-sized charities are stuck in a loop of grant chasing, donor fatigue, and burnout. Meanwhile, funders are stretched, needs are rising, and unrestricted income is harder to secure.We help you do what the fastest-growing charities do differently:
What We Do
We equip stretched charity teams with systems that scale generosity.
💌 Inbox Impact Bootcamp
A 6-week digital course + toolkit [Launching Sept 2025] that turns your email list into a reliable monthly giving system. Built for teams with limited time.
🧠 Inbox Impact VIP Day
A fun, practical in-person workshop for your team. Learn the Give • Grow • Get Method™, map your comms + fundraising campaigns, and get expert support — in one day.
📄 Free Guide: The 3 Secrets to Unlocking a Stable Stream of Monthly GivingLearn the exact strategy fast-growing charities use to build loyal donor bases without burning out their team.
What People Are Saying
"It is exactly the type of training we were looking for to help us become more strategic in the way we communicate with our audience"
Don't Take Our Word For It - Read What Recent Gorilla Fans Have Said
Not Just Another Training Day
Most attempts to boost giving fail because they lack one of the 4 Essential Elements needed to build a reliable Repeat Giving Engine.The Fundraising Gorilla's Give Grow Get Method™️is the only plug + play Repeat-Giving System that includes all 4 essentials:
Essential No. 1
✅ Attract your perfect-fit supporters (your 80/20 people)
Most email strategies chase the wrong crowd.We help you attract your 80/20 people — the small segment of supporters who drive the majority of your giving, fundraising, and word-of-mouth growth. These are the ones who get it, love it, and act on it.Why? Because when you align instead of convince, you grow faster with more ease.Inbox Impact helps you spot them, speak to them, and scale them — every week.
Essential No. 2
📈 Create exponential growth — not just linear wins
Most charities grow email giving slowly (if at all).Inbox Impact helps you build systems that multiply support, not just add it.We’ll show you how to spark the kind of emails supporters love, share, and act on — then automate them so they run in the background, growing your income without growing your to-do list.
Essential No. 3
🧠 Build a smart, repeatable system — not one-off wins
You don’t need disconnected email campaigns. You need a system ⚙️Inbox Impact walks your team through the Give • Grow • Get Method™ —
a simple, scalable framework that shows supporters how to believe in your mission, belong to your cause, and give again and again.✅ GIVE: Build trust with the supporters you already have
✅ GROW: Attract new 80/20 supporters every single week
✅ GET: Invite giving without guilt, pressure, or burnoutIt’s not just strategy — it’s a plug-and-play plan your team can repeat.
Essential No. 4
📊 Track what matters — so you know what to fix
Most teams send emails + launch fundraising campaigns without knowing what’s working.Inbox Impact gives you 7 smart, simple metrics that will make you feel like you've got a personal growth coach — showing what’s working, what’s not, and what 1 tweak you can make the next month to see bigger impact.No spreadsheet overwhelm, no guessing.Because when you measure what matters, your results compound.
🎯 Built for overworked teams, with big missions and limited capacity.
Inbox Impact 6 Week Digital Bootcamp[COMING SEPT 2025]
£597
Build an email giving system that runs — even when you don’t.This 6-week digital bootcamp gives your team everything you need to turn email into a reliable, repeat-giving engine: strategy, templates, and automations that work behind the scenes while you focus on your mission.💡 Stop scrambling for donations. Start scaling them.
Inbox Impact VIP Day
£797
Prefer in-person support? Bring Lydia in for a fun, focused training day. You’ll learn the Give • Grow • Get Method™, map your comms + fundraising over the next 12 months, and get expert eyes on your strategy — so you leave clear, confident, and ready to build your system.🎁 Includes forever access to the Inbox Impact Bootcamp.VIP spots limited to 5 charities a month.
About Us
You Deserve Funding You Can Count On
Most charity teams are brilliant at delivery — but stuck in survival mode.We equip you with tools to generate predictable income and finally buy back your time — so you can deliver transformational impact today, tomorrow, and always.Lydia launched The Fundraising Gorilla in 2025 with one core belief:Funding shouldn't be the bottleneck.Right now the demand for charitable support is growing faster than available funds. The only way mission-driven teams can thrive in this climate?— build vibrant communities of committed supporters who give again and again.
About Lydia
Meet Our Founder
Lydia Mitton is a charity insider-turned-digital strategist who’s spent 20 years working on the frontlines of nonprofit impact — from anti-trafficking to refugee education.After hitting a wall with grant-dependent models, she turned to business growth tactics and discovered how digital funnels could transform supporter engagement. Now, she helps charities ditch scattergun comms + fundraising campaigns and build repeat-giving systems that actually scale — without selling out.When she’s not building bootcamps or mapping supporter journeys, you’ll find her sipping coffee and decoding what makes people give again (and again).
Your next 100 repeat givers are out there
But most charities can't turn their interest into income because they lack a system to do so.Get the free Guide: The 3 Secrets to Unlocking a Stable Stream of Monthly Giving — Without More Time, More Team, or the Risk of Burnout
£72
The average monthly donation in 2024 — up from £46 just a few years ago.Donors are giving more, even as fewer are giving.Got a system to turn this into reliable income?
97%
Of donors say trust in a charity influences their decision to give.But most charity emails only update — they don’t build connection.What are yours doing?
80/ 20 Rule
80% of a charity’s income comes from just 20% of its supporters.But most email systems treat everyone the same.Are you focusing where it counts?
"If you've ever thought 'if only the big companies with highly paid marketeers could help us to understand and do this stuff', then you've struck gold with Fundraising Gorilla"
-Sarah Turner, Co-Founder/Director, Kidz Klub
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