# Home Secretary and key funders to address Funding the Future conference

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/09/25/home-secretary-and-key-funders-address-funding-future-conference/
- Published: 2005-09-25T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

This year’s Funding the Future conference, which features 40 speakers from trust,
statutory and lottery funders, will be held at Central Hall Westminster on 15 November.

The keynote speaker this year will be Home Secretary, the Rt Hon Charles Clarke 
MP.

Action Planning, the fundraising consultancy who are putting on the event, say that
last year’s conference was attended by 1,000 delegates, making it the UK’s largest
one-day conference for fundraising professionals.

This year’s event includes a combination of a large plenary session plus briefings
for charities in different fields of work, followed by seven separate streams in
separate halls for charities in each field of work. The programme includes:

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 * The Home Secretary, the Health Minister, the Children’s Minister, the Arts Minister
   and top officials from central and local Government on statutory funding in 2006.
 * The Big Lottery Fund which is sending eight presenters to speak to charities 
   in each field of work about their 2006-9 programmes.
 * Professor Adrian Sargeant on fundraising strategy and the latest analysis of 
   voluntary sector funding from Cathy Pharaoh, Research Director of CAF.
 * Jonathan Porritt CBE, Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, 
   on securing funding from industry for environmental projects
 * 40 presentations by trust, lottery and statutory funders, addressing charities
   in seven streams: Health, Disability and Care Services, Building Communities /
   Developing Skills, Children / Young People, Arts / Heritage, International Development,
   faith-based charities and the environment.

The attendance fee of £125 includes VAT, lunch and all presentation materials.

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