New fundraising conference launched for Ireland
Howard Lake | 16 July 2006 | News
A brand-new conference for fundraisers in Ireland is due to be held on 28 September in Dublin. ‘Fundraising Ireland 2006’ will offer a full day of seminars with an emphasis on individual giving bringing the brightest and best of fundraising techniques and thinking.
The programme has been brought together by Penny Stephens of Back Page Books, who for almost eight years was editorial director of Professional Fundraising magazine in the UK. Although there are events for fundraisers in Ireland, this is based around individual giving and we hope it will fill a need in the sector , Stephens says. Ireland is a burgeoning environment for fundraisers and they are hungry for information.
Fundraising Ireland 2006 brings together some of the most well-respected and knowledgeable speakers from both Ireland and the UK. An opening plenary by Deirdre Garvey, chief executive of The Wheel, will take an overview of the fundraising sector in Ireland, looking at its past, present and future.
Advertisement
The programme moves from research, through to setting a fundraising strategy, getting donors, keeping donors, online fundraising, branding and bequest [legacy] fundraising. Speakers include Mary O’Kennedy of O’Kennedy Consulting, Kieron Kent from Forward Emphasis International, Andrew Scadding of Pattaya Orphanage Trust, Damian O’Broin of Ask Direct, Howard Lake of UK Fundraising, Bryan Miller of Whitewater and Professor Adrian Sargeant of Bristol Business School.
Principal partner for the event is Fundraising Initiatives, partners are The Wheel and Forward Emphasis Interrnational. UK Fundraising is the media partner for the event. Blogs from speakers will be posted regularly on www.fundraising.co.uk/blogs/fundraisingireland2006 with updates on seminar content.
A PDF of the programme is downloadable from UK Fundraising, or by emailing ba***********@ya***.uk or st***********@bl********.uk
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.