# Certificate in Fundraising Management Launched

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1998/04/23/certificate-fundraising-management-launched/
- Published: 1998-04-23T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

After four years in the development stage, the new Certificate in Fundraising Management
was formally launched at a reception at Charityfair on Tuesday 21 April. The reception,
hosted by the Institute of Fundraising Managers (ICFM) and the Open University Business
School, attracted over 60 Chief Executives and Senior Fundraisers from across the
sector.

ICFM Chairman, Brian Roberts-Wray, congratulated those who had already gained their
certificate through taking part in the pilot project. He said “I hope that everyone
who is professionally engaged in fundraising will seriously consider enrolling for
the certification programme. I believe it will prove to be the most beneficial innovation
to the fundraising profession ever undertaken by ICFM.”
Professor David Asch Dean
of the Open University Business School said: “The successful individuals who we 
are congratulating here today have demonstrated the importance of learning, relevant
to the workplace and to their commitment in helping their own organisations play
a more effective role in the future.”

During the reception, the Open University’s Pro Vice-chancellor, Geoffrey Peters,
presented some of the first group of successful candidates with their Certificates.
The eleven candidates have either been members of the pilot project (organised by
ICFM during the Autumn of 1997) or were Institute members who had successfully completed
the Open University’s course Winning Resources and Support. This is one of a number
of routes to the Certificate recognised by the Institute as a Certified Training
Course.

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Rumman Ahmed, Celia Denton, Laura Fagg, Bill Giles, Kevin Hawkes, Marcia Hewitt,
Miranda Marsh, Margaret Martin and Richard Radcliffe received their awards at the
reception. Jonathan Farnhill and Michael Nokes, who were unable to be present, will
receive theirs shortly.

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