# OU Business School offers scholarships to fundraisers

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/08/09/ou-business-school-offers-scholarships-fundraisers/
- Published: 2005-08-09T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Fundraisers can now apply for one of 10 new £500 scholarships from the Open University
Business School towards the cost of studying the School’s Winning Resources and 
Support programme.
The scholarships have been made available for 2005 through a 
donation by a charitable trust.

Applications are now being invited, ahead of the next presentation of the course
in November 2005, from professional or voluntary fundraisers whose gross salaries
are £25,000 a year or less and who work with a charity or voluntary/community organisation
whose annual turnover is up to £2 million.

The six-month course, which focuses on the skills and knowledge necessary for successful
fundraising, leads to the Institute of Fundraising’s Certificate in Fundraising 
Management (CIFM), subject to membership conditions.

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Winning Resources and Support uses a combination of specially-written study texts,
face-to-face and online interaction and assignments relevant to the sector.

Scholarship applicants are asked to submit their letters of application on no more
than one side of A4.

They should include explanations of how they plan to fit the demands of being a 
distance learner into their existing schedules (the course requires an average commitment
of five to six hours a week); and details of the difference that improving the applicant’s
fundraising skills will make to their organisation and to their personal development.

The closing date for applications is 9 September 2005.

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