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Prospecting for Gold Ltd was created in 1991 as the research arm of Charity Consultants Ltd, UK's leading network of fundraising consultants. We provide charity database screening, bespoke prospect research and fundraising profiling services. We have worked with over 300 charities since 2001 whilst investing over £2 million in building our databases.

History

2001 - Prospecting for
Gold becomes an
independent sister
company to Charity
Consultants Ltd offering
research services to other
charities and fundraising
consultancies. Since then
Prospecting for Gold has
concentrated on building
up the size of the
database and has
introduced the following
range of research
products.

2003 - Prospecting for Gold launches Snapshot reports, identifying the best prospects on a supporter or membership database.

2005 - The Prospecting for Gold Database passes the 200,000 wealthy records barrier!

2005 - Prospecting for Gold formed a partnership with CCR Data Ltd to launch Prospect Profiler - the new Data Audit service and created the new 'Wealth Tag' product.

2006 - Prospecting for Gold entered into an agreement with Matrix Data Ltd to create the UK's largest single database of factual wealth intelligence - The Wealth Intelligence Database - and launched the 'Faststats' service, which will change the way database screening is delivered and used by charities.

2007 - Prospecting for Gold launches the 2007 release of The Wealth Intelligence Database, along with a free summary product that allows charities to see an overview of their screening results before making a spending commitment.

2008 - The Legacy Prospect Database is launched by Prospecting for Gold, providing the UK's first factual database of wealth and life-stage information developed specifically for legacy marketing and planned giving fundraising.

2010 - Spotting the lack of established training courses in prospect research, Prospecting for Gold expands its programme of training and seminars for both experienced and budding researchers.

Name: Mim Shaw
Contact: Worldvision


We've been very impressed with your work and the services of Prospecting for Gold. Thanks again for being so helpful with our requests James. We look forward to working with you again once we have worked through Phase 1 of our Research!

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