# Seven new Fellows elected to Institute of Fundraising

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/07/08/seven-new-fellows-elected-institute-fundraising/
- Published: 2012-07-08T11:10:10+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Seven fundraisers have been elected as Fellows of the Institute of Fundraising. 
The honours were announced at the Institute’s National Convention in London.

Peter Lewis, Chief Executive of the Institute of Fundraising, said: “I am very proud
to announce these new Fellows of the Institute of Fundraising. Their appointment
reflects their outstanding contribution to fundraising – they truly are jolly good
fellows.”

Fellows are elected in recognition for “having made a special contribution to both
the fundraising profession and the Institute”. They are nominated by other members
and the Board of Trustees chooses which to elect.

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Announcing [the call for nominations](http://www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/newsroom/latest-news/give-inspirational-fundraisers-proper-recognition)
in May this year, Lewis explained: “A Fellow could be someone who has done a lot
to advance the professionalism of fundraising, or taken on our sector’s learning
agenda; a fundraiser who has developed a new approach, or who has led well by example.”

## 2012 Fellows of the Institute of Fundraising

**Carol Akiwumi** – vice Chair of IoF’s Black Fundraisers Network and active member
of the London Regional Group

**Bill Bruty** – fundraising consultant and trainer, for his wider contribution 
to fundraising and the IoF

**Ian Clark** – previous Director of Fundraising for the Diocese of Chichester, 
and long term volunteer for IoF. Currently member of IoF’s Policy Advisory Board

**Alan Gosschalk** – Fundraising Director at RNID, Shelter and currently SCOPE and
previous Chair of the IoF. Founder of the Impact coalition

**Gill Jolly** – fundraising consultant and trainer, and active member of IoF’s 
East Anglia Group Howard Lake – founder of UK Fundraising, and guru on digital fundraising

**Howard Lake** – founder of UK Fundraising, and digital fundraising pioneer

**Russell Thomson** – Director of Fundraising at the Royal British Legion and former
Chair of IoF’s Convention Board