# Third Sector Forum – good for you?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/10/14/third-sector-forum-good-you/
- Published: 2006-10-14T12:59:57+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Third Sector magazine is running its annual two-day Forum for senior fundraising,
marketing and communications directors from 8-10 November at The Oxford Belfry, 
Oxfordshire. It’s a good proprosition: up to 50 senior staff with budgets in excess
of £500,000 a year get a free conference and networking opportunity in return for
attending workshops, listening to speakers, and agreeing to a series of 30-minute
meetings with suppliers. Needless to say, it’s the suppliers that pay to attend 
and make the event worthwhile for Haymarket, Third Sector’s publishers.

Speakers at this year’s event include Jon Scourse, director of the Fundraising Standards
Board; Jonathan Powell, chief executive at Independent Age; Penelope Gibbs, director
of the Voluntary Action Media Unit; Andrew Hind, chief executive at the Charity 
Commission; and Amanda Seller, director of fundraising at WSPA.

There are some tough reservations in the terms of conditions of booking. If you 
cancel within six weeks of the event (and we’re now only three weeks away from the
event) you will be charged £1,000 + VAT. Cancel with just two weeks to go and you’ll
be invoiced for £2,000 + VAT. Similarly any delegate that does not keep to the itinery
of appointments with suppliers, or who “is there to sell their company’s products
or services” might well be charged “the full cost of accommodation, meals and the
equivalent cost of being an exhibitor at the Forum.”

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I’ve never been to the Forum. It sounds a good idea. Anyone care to comment on how
useful it is to senior fundraisers and marketers?

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