Two senior fundraising appointments at Cancer Research UK
Howard Lake | 6 December 2004 | News
Cancer Research UK has appointed Sarah Lyness and Richard Taylor as Co-Executive Directors of its Fundraising and Marketing Directorate.
Both appointments are internal candidates: Lyness was previously Marketing Director for the charity while Taylor was Retail Director.
Together they will share the leadership role for the strategy and culture within the Directorate, while taking individual responsibility for specific areas of the charity’s fundraising work.
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Taylor will focus on community fundraising, retail, national events and corporate partnerships, while Lyness will head up activities including major giving, legacy and donor marketing.
Richard Taylor joined Imperial Cancer Research Fund in 1998 as Head of Retail, staying with the charity as Retail Director through its merger with Cancer Research Campaign in 2002. Sarah Lyness joined the charity from Oxfam and launched the new Cancer Research UK brand at merger.
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.