# Head of Fundraising becomes cancer charity's General Manager

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/06/17/head-fundraising-becomes-cancer-charity039s-general-manager/
- Published: 2009-06-17T11:50:41+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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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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