White CWGC Logo

128% increase in donations

Full funnel digital fundraising strategy and implementation

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), founded by Royal Charter in 1917, is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states. Its principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth military service members who died in the two World Wars.

The CWGC Foundation is its fundraising arm. It relies on public donations and supporter engagement to fund conservation, education and community outreach work that sits outside the Commission’s government-funded mandate.

The challenge

The Foundation needed to grow donations in a competitive charity landscape where digital fundraising costs were rising and donor acquisition was becoming harder. Existing digital activity was fragmented. Paid, organic, social and content were operating in silos with no connected funnel strategy.

There was no single view of the donor journey from awareness through to completed donation. Campaign activity generated spikes in attention but lacked the underlying infrastructure to convert that attention into sustained giving. Content existed, but it was not structured around donor intent or optimised for the channels where supporters were increasingly making decisions.

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What we did

We designed and delivered a full integrated fundraising strategy, connecting every channel into one growth system aligned to our formula for success.

  • Search and AI discovery strategy – SEO, GEO and AEO to increase organic visibility for fundraising, legacy and memorial-related searches across both traditional search and AI platforms
  • Google Ads – Structured campaigns across branded, non-branded and grant-funded ad inventory to capture high-intent donation queries
  • Paid Meta (always-on and campaign bursts) – Ongoing retargeting and awareness activity combined with seasonal and campaign-specific fundraising pushes
  • Content strategy, roadmap and production – Topic clusters mapped to the full donor journey, with content delivered across multiple formats including articles, landing pages, blogs, banners, carousels and video
  • Organic social – Consistent storytelling across channels to build community, drive engagement and support paid amplification
  • Creative campaign direction and execution – Concept development, art direction and production for fundraising campaign assets across digital channels
  • Omni-channel conversion funnels – Full funnel mapping from first touchpoint to completed donation, optimised across every stage

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