# Tim Hunter next chair of IFC

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/08/29/tim-hunter-next-chair-ifc/
- Published: 2007-08-29T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The NSPCC’s Tim Hunter is the new chair of the board of the International Fundraising
Congress (IFC) and he will succeed Judy Beard, Macmillan Cancer Support’s director
of fundraising and communications when her term ends after the IFC in October this
year.**

A new board will be announced in the next few weeks. Hunter aims to search for new
speakers and forward-thinking fundraising topics to ensure the IFC cements its position
as ‘the’ forum for new thinking in fundraising.

My primary focus is exploring and finding innovation – how do we make sure we identify
and bring to people’s attention the new and exciting things that are taking place
in a hundred different places for thousands of different causes? said Hunter.

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There is plenty of new talent and plenty of new ideas out there – especially some
very innovative stuff from the developing fundraising world that is rarely heard
about in the West – and they need to be heard at IFC. The IFC is the only truly 
global fundraising conference, so if new ideas are to be presented, it has to be
here.

Simon Collings, chief executive of the Resource Alliance, which organises the IFC,
said: Tim is the ideal person to take forward Judy’s work. Like Judy, Tim is a senior
practising fundraiser. He knows the current challenges and trends from the inside
so he’s in a strong position to ensure the IFC remains highly relevant.

The IFC chair is appointed to serve a two-year term by the board of the Resource
Alliance.

The IFC takes place in Leeuwenhorst in the Netherlands from 23-26 October.

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