# New Director of Arts & Business West Midlands

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/10/02/new-director-arts-amp-business-west-midlands/
- Published: 2005-10-02T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Arts & Business, the national charity that encourages new and sustainable relationships
between business and the arts, has appointed Gavin Buckley as Director of Arts &
Business West Midlands.

Gavin will manage a team of seven staff and oversees the work of a number of freelance
artists working on Arts & Business projects throughout the region. During the next
twelve months Gavin and the team will be working in partnership with Birmingham 
Chamber of Commerce and Birmingham City Council to deliver The Year of Arts in Business.

Gavin joins A&B from Muscular Dystrophy Campaign where he was Director of Regional
Fundraising for the past four years.

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Gavin previously worked as Director of Projects for A&B, where he led on the development
and introduction of the successful New Partners investment programme. He also wrote
the ‘Arts & Business Sponsorship Manual’ during that time.

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