About Us

Prospecting for Gold Limited (PFG) was created in 1991 as part of Charity Consultants Limited. Charity Consultants is the UK’s leading network of fundraising professionals and specialises in capital appeal fundraising. PFG was originally a dedicated research unit supporting the work of Charity Consultants and its clients. Over the last 15 years, it has provided prospect research for over 100 capital appeals at the same time as investing a total of £2 million of resources in building the database from public domain information.

In 2001, the research unit of Charity Consultants Limited became Prospecting for Gold Limited. Since then PFG has concentrated on building up the size of the database and has introduced the following range of research products.

2003 — PFG launched Snapshot reports, the new database screening product, which is now the most popular product according to our charity clients.

2005 — the PFG Database passed the 200,000 records barrier!

2005 — PFG formed a partnership with CCR Data Limited to launch Prospect Profiler – the new Data Audit service and created the new ‘WealthTag’ product.

2006 — PFG entered into an agreement with Matrix Data Limited 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 Prospect Research is delivered and used by charities.

2007 — PFG launches the 2007 release of The Wealth Intelligence Database.