A Practical Whitepaper for UK Charities & Not-for-Profits
Implementing a New CRM
Without the Usual Regrets
Most charity CRM projects don’t fail on the technology. They fail on the data,
the people, and the leadership around it. This guide sets out the seven phases, the pitfalls that
derail each one, and the hard-won lessons that make the difference.
A clear, sector-specific route from “should we even do this?” to a system your teams actually use.
1
Decide
Should you really do this — and how to own the benefits top-down.
2
Define
Requirements, not wish-lists, and who owns the process.
3
Select
Choosing a partner who navigates, not a supplier who sells and leaves.
4
Prepare
Data, people and governance — where projects are quietly won.
5
Build
Waterfall the foundation; be agile on top. Go live as an MVP.
6
Migrate
The hot/cold storage reframe that unlocks a stuck migration.
7
Embed
Adoption through executive ownership and trusted evangelists.
A taste of the hard-won lessons
Three ideas you can use today
Hot vs cold storage
Don’t fight teams over deleting data. Migrate only actively-engaged records into the CRM (hot),
and move everything else to a data lake (cold) — still held, still available. Nobody loses their
data; the CRM stays fast and clean.
Make directors the sponsors, not their teams
Consensus produces a fog of local wish-lists. Put each Executive Director on the hook for the
benefits in their portfolio, and orchestrate the experts through them. Decisions get strategic fast.
Waterfall the foundation, be agile on top
A CRM is a foundational data capability, not a feature backlog. Get the data model, migration and
integrations right up front with rigour — then iterate on everything you build above it.
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