About

Howard Lake | 11 April 2007 | Blogs

After a failed career in football, and then as a ZX Spectrum programmer, I joined the voluntary sector in 1990 and have worked in fundraising ever since. I was fortunate enough to hold senior fundraising roles within a number of major charities including Oxfam, Practical Action and Habitat for Humanity International and to sit on the Disasters Emergency Committee. I founded John Grain Associates in 2004.

My first job at Oxfam was opening mail and banking cheques and gave me a fantastic insight into the many motivations of folk to donate to charity. It is probably for this reason I have always had a passion for what inspires people to give and how charities look after their supporters – which often is not very well!

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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.