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A proven process, expert guidance and technology built for fundraising. That is how we help universities, colleges, schools and charities take on ambitious campaigns with confidence, with hands-on people who have run hundreds of them right beside you.
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How we support you
Expertise alongside the platform
Choose the level of support that suits your team: from a light-touch sounding board to full managed delivery. Whatever the model, you get a named consultant who knows your campaign inside out.
Trusted friend
A senior fundraiser in your corner. Strategic planning, data analysis and honest mentoring through the life of a campaign, so your team makes confident decisions and is never working it out alone.
Training & readiness
Before you commit to a Giving Day or telephone appeal, we assess where your team is, close the skills gaps and set realistic targets and ROI projections, so you go into the campaign ready, not hopeful.
Interim management
Lost a key team member, or short of capacity at a critical moment? We step in to lead and run programmes, keeping momentum and continuity while you recruit or regroup.
Continuity cover
Arrange the cover before you need it. A named consultant alongside your team every month, your programme documented as it runs, and someone ready to step in the week somebody resigns.
Read moreThe people beside you
A named consultant who has sat in your seat
The reassurance is not abstract. Every engagement is led by a fundraiser who has run the kind of campaign you are planning, from inside an institution like yours. That is the whole point: they have already met the problems your team is about to.
Kat Carter
Lead Consultant
Kat ran the Regular Giving programme at the University of Southampton before joining Hubbub, managing telephone appeals, e-appeals, crowdfunding, direct mail, leadership giving and legacies, so she knows the in-house pressure of a campaign from the development side herself. With over 15 years of fundraising experience, she has worked across higher education, Oxbridge colleges, schools and the wider charity sector, helped launch Giving Days in the UK and delivered more than 120 of them. Having sat in the client’s seat and run more Giving Days than almost anyone is exactly why she is a safe pair of hands.
Heather Eggelton
Consultant
Heather ran Giving Days and telephone appeals from inside two schools, Cheltenham Ladies’ College and Cheltenham College, so she knows first-hand the pressure of delivering a number with the whole school watching and a small development team to do it. With over twenty years in fundraising strategy and delivery across UK and US education and charity, and more than 50 Giving Day appeals advised on since joining Hubbub, she brings the reassurance of someone who has already met the problems your team is about to.
Hayley Bryce
Associate Consultant, Giving Days
Hayley has sat where university advancement teams sit. As Head of Marketing and Communications at the University of Sydney, and the person who set up London Business School’s Giving Day programme from scratch, she understands the pressure of launching a giving programme inside a large institution and getting senior stakeholders behind it. With two decades in marketing and fundraising engagement across the UK and Australia, and over 50 UK Giving Days run or advised on, she is the safe pair of hands for a team taking on something new and visible.
Melissa Adair
Associate Consultant
Melissa has spent more than 20 years driving fundraising strategy for institutions and nonprofits across North America, so she knows the pressure of building results across multiple channels at once and reporting them up. Working with hundreds of organisations through an omnichannel approach has shown her what actually moves the needle and what only looks busy, which is why she is a steady, safe pair of hands for a team that needs the strategy to deliver. Melissa is based near Atlanta, Georgia.
Jonathan May
CEO & Founder
Jonathan founded Hubbub and has built its platforms in-house over 15 years, but he leads from the fundraiser’s side of the table: the whole company exists to make campaigns land, not to sell software. He has worked alongside hundreds of universities, schools and charities as they take on ambitious appeals, which is why the technology and the people around it are built around one thing, giving your team the confidence to raise more.
Three ways to work with us
Just the tech, or a team beside you
Just the tech
Use our platform as a standalone and run a brilliant campaign with your own stellar team.
Tech & consultancy
Use the platform and work alongside our experts to build the skills and confidence to deliver it yourselves.
Full service
If capacity or expertise feel like barriers, our team steps in to do the heavy lifting end to end.
“I cannot praise Hubbub highly enough. They were properly invested in our success.” Georgie Grant Haworth, Development Director, Royal Grammar School Guildford
“Hubbub have a wealth of experience for customers to benefit from. Anyone considering a digital approach will benefit from teaming up with Hubbub.” Jenna Rafferty, Digital Engagement Manager, London Business School
Why institutions choose Hubbub
Ambitious targets. Limited time. Technology that holds you back.
Fundraising teams are being asked to reach more donors and raise more income, often without additional capacity, specialist expertise or the right tools. We give you the technology, structure and experienced support to move forward with confidence.
Expertise you can use
Work with people who understand annual giving because they have delivered campaigns from inside fundraising teams themselves. Giving days, telephone campaigns, crowdfunding, auctions and year-round programmes, with universities, colleges, schools and charities.
Technology built for fundraising
Purpose-built platforms designed around donor participation, campaign performance and long-term engagement, rather than general-purpose tools bent into shape.
Capacity when you need it
Add experienced strategic and delivery support without having to grow your permanent team. A named consultant and a dedicated platform team, from early planning through to campaign day.
A proven, lower-risk approach
Follow a clear methodology refined across more than 300 Giving Days, with visible milestones, dedicated support and evidence from institutions like yours.
Technology shaped by more than 300 Giving Days, and by the people who ran them, working as one to deliver a campaign your community will remember.
Let's talk about your next campaign
A 30-minute conversation with someone who has run campaigns like yours, no hard sell.
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