Charity Marketing and Fundraising MSc

You may already be working in the charity sector as a senior marketing and fundraising manager. Or you may wish to transfer relevant skills and knowledge from experience you've gained in other sectors.

The course will support and enhance your core fundraising and marketing management skills. It will equip you to design and deliver efficient, effective and appropriate fundraising and marketing practice in the voluntary sector.

The Postgraduate Diploma consists of six compulsory modules that all students take and are common to all the five charity postgraduate courses. These provide the essential underpinning of management skills for the two compulsory specialist courses. Upon successful completion of the diploma you can continue to the MSc Programme.

The MSc requires completion of the Research Methods for Managers module. This is followed by either: a further six months of personal, supervised research and the presentation of a research-based dissertation. Or alternatively, you can opt to take a taught Masters which allows you to choose specialist modules from one of the other charities programmes.

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Course work

All students will be highly motivated graduate-level people who bring a wide range of professional competencies, skills and experience from a wide range of backgrounds. Gender is evenly balanced across all the courses and there are no age barriers.

In general we ask for a good first degree, normally an upper second-class honours degree from a British University or an equivalent qualification from a leading overseas institution; and three or more years relevant experience at a senior level.

In exceptional cases we will also accept those without a degree but with significant work experience.