# The Brooke wins Fundraising Team of the Year Award

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/10/06/brooke-wins-fundraising-team-year-award/
- Published: 2005-10-06T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The equine welfare charity, the Brooke, has won the ‘Fundraising Team of the Year’
award at the 2005 Third Sector Excellence Awards.
The award completes a significant
transformation for the Brooke, which three years ago faced a financial crisis. In
2002, the charity, formerly known as the Brooke Hospital for Animals, had no fundraising
programme and was likely to go bust by 2007.

The appointment of a new CEO, Mike Baker, saw the Brooke invest its reserves in 
a five-year recovery plan which included recruiting an entire fundraising & communications
team, developing new fundraising programmes to create sustainable and growing income
streams, and re-branding itself as ‘The Brooke’.

Between 2003/4 and 2004/5 net income grew by 23% enabling the Brooke to unfreeze
spending on its overseas operations.

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