New trade body for charity communicators mooted

Howard Lake | 20 July 2005 | News

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Charity communications workers meet today in London to consider setting up a trade body along the lines of the Institute of Fundraisers.

Third Sector magazine reports that the meeting will be attended by senior communications staff at major charities plus other organisations active in the sector including the Media Trust and the Voluntary Action Media Unit.

Joe Saxton, the chair of the Institute of Fundraising, is supporting the initiative. He hopes that a trade body will be able to make charity communications more of a discipline and career. The body, he says, would serve all charity communications staff, whether their focus lay in PR, media relations, publications, or website publishing.

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