# 28th International Fundraising Congress gets underway

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/10/15/28th-international-fundraising-congress-gets-underway/
- Published: 2008-10-15T23:18:45+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

[⌊Welcome to the International Fundraising Congress 2008⌉⌊Welcome to the International
Fundraising Congress 2008⌉[

The 28th International Fundraising Congress gets underway today in Nordwijkerhout,
Holland.

Its organisers, the Resource Alliance, say that it is “the biggest international
fundraising convention in the world”, in the sense of staged for an international
audience with international content.

This year there are over 950 delegates from at least 552 organisations from 60 countries.
Sixty six per cent of delegates are attending for the first time.

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Forty two per cent come from NGOs, 38% from international NGOs, 17% are suppliers
to the sector, 1% come from universities, and a further 1% are categorised as “other”.

Not surprisingly the UK dominates the delegate list with at least 165 UK delegates
from 76 organisations. Some of the larger charities send a big delegation: NSPCC
for example, has 20 staff here, Macmillan Cancer Support eight, and British Red 
Cross eight. On the other hand there are plenty of organisation sending just one
delegate.

I’m here for the first time in 10 years as a member of the press, and have been 
reporting on its early stages mainly via [Twitter](http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ifc08),
while uploading pictures to [Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/howardlake/sets/72157608004881731).

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 * **[Photos from International Fundraising Congress 2008](https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/10/22/photos-international-fundraising-congress-2008/)**(
   22 October 2008)
 * **[Simon Collings to leave Resource Alliance for energy access charity](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/01/22/simon-collings-leave-resource-alliance-energy-access-charity/)**(
   22 January 2009)
 * **[Thanks Simon Collings – you found Resource Alliance’s voice](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/04/09/thanks-simon-collings-you-found-resource-alliances-voice/)**(
   9 April 2009)