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Join us at NerdFest for charity insight, fundraising and lots of learning.

Whether you're a fundraiser who wants to analyse campaigns better, an insight specialist who wants to up your skills or an innovator who wants to do more research; we've got you covered.

Nerdfest is a celebration of all things Insight and Fundraising with courses in Excel, Campaign Analysis, Qualitative Research and more.

Check out the courses

Who are the trainers?

Some awesome folks...

Victoria Barham

Founder @ VB Analytics

Vicki is an analysis whizz, she runs two fabulous and very popular Excel courses giving beginners and more advanced users top tips for analysing their fundraising using Excel.

Please contact victoria@vbanalytics.co.uk for more information.

Steven Dodds

Managing Director @ Beautiful Insights

Steven is superb at applying insight to make a difference in fundraising and innovation. He delivers the Communicating Insight and Qualitative Insight courses.

Stuart McCoy

Data Strategy Consultant @ DM Insight

What Stuart doesn’t know about fundraising data and analysis isn’t worth knowing! He runs several courses including the very popular Campaign Analysis, Targeting and Testing.

Kirsty Neal

Data & Insight Consultant @ Brighter Corners Data

Kirsty is a real data and insight all-rounder with a ton of experience in charity roles and now as a consultant. She runs the Insight Fundamentals course with Ruth.

Dr Claire Routley

Head of Gifts in Wills @ Legacy Voice

Claire is the bees knees when it comes to understanding legacy supporters, she runs the superb Pinpointing Pledgers course with Stuart McCoy.

Paul Seabrook

Founder @ Beautiful Insights

Paul’s pretty hopeless at DIY around the house, but having run a quant research agency for 10+ years, he’s worth listening to when it comes to learning about DIY online research!

Ruth Smyth

Insight Director @ BoldLight

Ruth rocks at insight projects that combine qualitative and quantitative techniques. She is a communications nerd and loves running the Communicating Insight course as well as the Insight Fundamentals course.

Free webinars..

Watch this space for our fabulous free webinars.

Past topics have included: Reasons to Love Excel, Fundraising in a Permacrisis, Smashing Segmentations and DIY Online Surveys.

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