Cancer Research UK restructures fundraising and communications teams
Howard Lake | 25 January 2008 | News
Cancer Research UK is restructuring its communications, information, fundraising and supporter marketing functions to support future growth.
Richard Taylor, Executive Director of Fundraising and Supporter Marketing, has reorganised the fundraising and supporter marketing function into six departments: Supporter Relationship Management; Supporter Marketing; High Value Relationships; Community and Events; Trading; and Strategic Development.
The charity is also creating a new directorate, led by Sarah Lyness, combining its communications and information activities. The Communications and Information directorate will consist of six departments: PR & Press and Brand; Internet and New Media; Cancer Information; Health Information; Patient Information; and Strategy and Operations.
The charity has doubled its research funding to over £300 million since it was formed in 2002, and aims to spend £400 million a year by 2010.
www.cancerresearchuk.org.uk
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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.