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Head of Fundraising becomes cancer charity's General Manager
Howard Lake | 17 June 2009 | News
Teresa Nightingale, the Head of Fundraising for World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF UK), has been promoted to become the charity’s General Manager.
She has been with the charity, which focuses on the links between lifestyle and cancer, since 2001 and was promoted at the beginning of June.
She was initially hired as a fundraising programmes manager, following several promotions she was appointed Head of Fundraising in 2007. This saw her overseeing programmes such as direct mail, committed giving, legacies, trusts and challenge events.
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As General Manager, she also has responsibility for the charity’s education and communications activities, as well as governance and working closely with other charities in the WCRF global network.
www.wcrf-uk.org
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About Howard Lake
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.