# Simon Collings to leave Resource Alliance for energy access charity - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/01/22/simon-collings-leave-resource-alliance-energy-access-charity/ - Published: 2009-01-22T09:41:02+00:00 - Author: Howard Lake **Simon Collings, Chief Executive of the Resource Alliance, is to leave the organisation to take up a new position with the Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP) International, a UK-based charity that seeks to reduce poverty through access to modern energy services.** Collings joined the [Resource Alliance](http://www.resource-alliance.org) in 2003 from Oxfam, where he had been director of fundraising. Collings said: ## Advertisement [⌊Posthub advert. You create the campaign. We'll handle the postal journey. Get started at post-hub.co.uk.⌉](https://fundraising.co.uk/ads/posthub-20261007-300x250/) > “Working with the Resource Alliance has been like a vocation for me. I am incredibly > proud of the strides we have made in the last few years. > “The International Fundraising Congress is bigger and better than ever, and its > sister event in the Global South, the International Workshop on Resource Mobilisation, > is also going from strength to strength. > “And, of course, I am immensely proud to have been instrumental is setting up > the Fundraisers Fund”. Steve Thomas, co-chair of the Resource Alliance, said: > “Simon has provided exceptional leadership during his tenure as chief executive. > He has given us a new vision and set us on the road to being the world’s leading > advocate for civil society sustainability. > “He will certainly be missed not just by the staff and trustees of the Resource > Alliance but by everyone who he has had contact with over the past six years.” Collings, who [blogs on UK Fundraising](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/blogs/simoncollings), will leave the Resource Alliance at the end of March. * **[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) * **[IFC 2009 to focus on fundraising through global recession](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/07/01/ifc-2009-focus-fundraising-through-global-recession/)**( 1 July 2009) * **[Migrate with your flock of fundraisers to the IFC this October](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/07/28/migrate-your-flock-fundraisers-ifc-october/)**( 28 July 2009) ![Loading](https://fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/page-views-count/ajax-loader- 2x.gif)