# Sheila McKechnie Foundation launched to promote charity campaigning

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/02/22/sheila-mckechnie-foundation-launched-promote-charity-campaigning/
- Published: 2005-02-22T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Sheila McKechnie Foundation is a new charity set up to give awards to those 
involved in charity campaigning.
It was launched today at number 11 Downing Street
by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown who will serve as its patron.

Charity Commission Chairman Geraldine Peacock said: “This is a novel charity, and
we’ve not registered anything quite like it before… It’s encouraging to register
a charity that is taking an innovative approach to enabling other charities to get
their voices heard. I hope that the Sheila McKechnie Foundation will succeed in 
boosting and increasing the skills of the sector, following the spirit and outstanding
example of Sheila McKechnie herself.”

Sheila McKechnie was Director of Which?, the consumer campaigning organisation from
1995 to 2004 and Director of Shelter, the homeless charity, from 1985 to 1995. She
made a major impact through high-profile campaigns and changed government policies
in relation to homeless youngsters and consumer issues. She died, after a long battle
with cancer, on 2 January 2004. She was awarded an OBE in 1995 and created a Dame
in 2001.

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The objectives of the charity fall under the category of promoting efficiency and
effectiveness in the charitable sector.

The first McKechnie Awards will be made in January 2006. The Award process will 
be announced in June 2005 and the charity will ask for nominations to be received
by September 2005.

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