Simon Burne starts blogging on UK Fundraising
Howard Lake | 5 March 2007 | News
UK Fundraising’s latest blog comes from Simon Burne, Senior Consultant at THINK Consulting Solutions, and Chair of the Institute of Fundraising from 2002 to 2005.
Simon joins other leading fundraising thinkers and practitioners including Sarah Hughes, Kevin Kibble, Ian MacQuillin in writing a blog on UK Fundraising. Other blogs on the site include Streetlife (on face-to-face fundraising), The Funderer (a humorous look at fundraising), and event-based blogs such as the Institute of Fundraising National Fundraising Awards, and Fundraising Ireland 2006.
His first too posts consider professionalising the sector and self-regulation. As always, if you want to join the debate on these issues, you can add your own comments and thoughts to his posts.
Simon joined the THINK team from NCH where he was Director of Marketing and Fundraising, where he he increased net income by 25%. Before that he helped double income in three years as Director of Fundraising and Communications at Acorns Children’s Hospice.
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Fluent in English, French and Spanish, although we think he’ll probably stick to English for the blog, he specialises in strategic planning, organisational reviews, direct marketing, major gift fundraising, integrated marketing, PR and brand management.
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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.