# Institute and UK Workforce Hub consult on fundraising standards

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/08/08/institute-and-uk-workforce-hub-consult-fundraising-standards/
- Published: 2007-08-08T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Institute of Fundraising and the UK Workforce Hub are calling for opinion from
the sector on the newly drafted national occupational standards.
The standards set
out the skills and understanding needed to undertake paticular tasks to a nationally
recognised level of competence. They reveal that fundraising has changed over the
last few years, with new standards for grant fundraising, corporate fundraising,
major gifts and direct marketing.

The standards have been redesigned to reflect better the role that fundraisers actually
undertake, specifying the skills that they should be able to demonstrate and the
knowledge and understanding that should underpin them. For the first time, the standards
will also include the academic knowledge that fundraisers should have, defining 
what models, theories, frameworks and ideas they should know in specific roles.

The consultation is taking place from the beginning of this month until the end 
of October 2007.

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