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In 2025 26 groups joined the Year-End’25 Support Group 🔥 Together they got 5 365 regular donors and more than 1 million euros in 12 months income! See the numbers they managed to achieve in the reporting table.
Organisations that participated in the '25 support group:
AETP (Slovenia), Albert Schweitzer Stiftung (Germany), Anima Denmark (Denmark), Anima Norge (Norway), Anima France (France), ARDE (Spain), Dansk Vegetarisk Forening (Denmark), Dzīvnieku brīvība (Latvia), FREE (Romania), Frente Animal (Portugal), Fórum Animal (Brazil), Nahtamatud Loomad (Estonia), Nevidimi Zhivotni (Bulgaria), New Roots Institute (United States), OBRAZ (Czechia), Oikeutta eläimille (Finland), Otwarte Klatki (Poland), Project 1882 (Sweden), Respect for Animals (UK), Sentient World (India), Svoboda Zvířat (Czechia), Te Protejo (Chile), The Humane League (UK), Tušti narvai (Lithuania), Vege Community (Serbia), VIVA (Poland).
Want your groups name on the '26 list? Apply to join the Year-End '26 Support Group here, or write to akvile@growth-impact.eu with any questions.
What is the Year-End support group?
The name says it all!
The Year-End Support Group is all about fundraisers from around the world supporting each other while preparing, launching, and running their campaigns.
During the most intense time of the year - from October to January - this group is the perfect place to:
Participate in the group chat discussions where you can ask your questions and get fast answers
Attend webinars and calls, where you will be able to learn from others and discover what works (and what doesn’t)
Share your ideas, struggles, and plans — and get honest feedback
And get access to useful materials just like this ⬆️ (take a look)
If this sound exciting to you, apply to the Year-End ’26 Support Group by filling out this form. Or reach out to Akvile Harner at akvile@growth-impact.eu
Past Year-End Support Groups
2026 will be the fourth year the support group is running.
In 2023 7 groups joined together to share their experience, knowledge and struggles preparing and running their Year-End fundraising campaigns. Together the 7 countries got 1 283 regular donors.
In 2024 16 groups together managed to get 3 647 new regular donors.
In 2025 the record was broken yet again with 26 groups acquiring a total of 5 365 regular donors and more than 1 million euros in 12 months income.
See the results of the 2025 group 👇
See the results of the 2024 group 👇
See the results of the 2023 group 👇
Rules for joining
Only a limited number of organizations can join the support group, so participation will be determined through a brief selection process.. There are 3 conditions to join the Year-End '26 Support Group:
Your Year-End campaign must focus on regular donations.
Recurring donations provide stability, predictability, and help build deeper relationships with supporters. That’s why all organizations in the Year-End ’26 group will focus on securing regular donors during their campaigns.Your Year-End campaign must have a dedicated landing page.
This ensures you’re ready to run a focused, effective campaign and track your results.Your group has to have at least a few thousand contacts.
The support group will be more valuable to you if you have at least a few thousand people on your mailing list already. If you don't have a supporter base yet, it might be best to start by building one. Get in touch with GIG if you want help with that.
If both conditions apply to you, sign up to become part of the Year-End ’26 Support Group by filling out this form. And if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Akvile Harner at akvile@growth-impact.eu
What do fundraisers who participated in previous Year-End Support Groups think?
We used a style that was completely the opposite of what we were used to. So it was very interesting to get to know the other organizations' experience and to see that sometimes they faced similar challenges. I also liked the spirit, the helpfulness and enthusiasm.
- Doreen, Germany
It was so inspiring with the day to day chat, sharing of success and failures. As a single fundraiser at our organization it felt like I was a part of a daily team no matter where I was.
- Lars, Denmark
It allowed us to do our best fundraising campaign in the org’s history. And all without stress because we just used the strategies shown to work by other groups. One thing I really liked was Jiri’s inspirational, morale-boosting messages from time to time. The participants’ willingness to respond to our questions also helped immensely. Also your reminders of the group rules (being active, sharing progress and struggles, etc.). Our team enjoyed the community feeling.
- Alise, Latvia
It was helpful. We gave questions to the group about website, regulars, emails. We got materials which were helpful (examples of emails, answers about website, regulars). It was very good to follow others journeys and adjust our campaign with the structures of other organizations.
- Emilija, Slovenia
Become part of the Year-End ’26 Support Group by filling out this form or - if you have any questions - feel free to each out to Akvile Harner at akvile@growth-impact.eu
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