# Obituary: Barry Jackson

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/11/04/barry-jackson/
- Published: 1999-11-04T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**UK Fundraising is very sad to learn of the sudden death last week of Barry Jackson,
director of Corporate Affairs at the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals.**

Barry set up the first e-mail discussion list for fundraisers in the UK, a year 
and a half before FundUK was launched. **Admin-develop** was established in October
1994 and has enabled hundreds of university fundraisers to share expertise, advice,
and information.

“Barry was always helpful to me”, said Howard Lake, UK Fundraising. “He was pleased
to see admin-develop joined by FundUK, and was a valued source of help and advice
to me over the past four years.”

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Barry also set up Expertnet, an online system for putting journalists rapidly in
touch with relevant academics at any UK university who could help them with their
story and provide a quote.

John Izbicki in today’s Independent Education supplement commented that “Barry was
an exceptionally kind man and always cheerful.”