New Director of External Affairs at NCH
Howard Lake | 1 May 2003 | News
Simon Burne joins children’s charity NCH as Director of External Affairs.
Simon will take up the position on 6th May 2003 after three years as Director of Fundraising & Communications at Acorn’s Children’s Hospice.
At NCH Simon’s role will encompass achieving significant voluntary income targets to support the delivery of services to children, young people and families. An immediate priority will be that of ensuring that NCH has a consistently high level of public awareness both to support the achievement of those targets and to help campaign on issues affecting vulnerable children, young people and families.
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“We are delighted that at NCH we have been able to recruit a person of the calibre of Simon Burne’, said Gordon Edington, Chair of NCH.
Simon has been involved in voluntary sector marketing for fourteen years, first at Intermediate Technology, and subsequently at Relate and The Children’s Society and Acorns. While at Acorns voluntary income almost doubled. His specialisms are strategic planning, direct marketing, community fundraising, integrated communications, brand management and trust
fundraising. He is currently Chair of the Institute of Fundraising and was on their Convention Committee for several years.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.