Institute of Fundraising to hold arts, culture and heritage fundraising conference

Howard Lake | 11 February 2013 | News

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• Chartered Institute of Fundraising

The Institute of Fundraising is holding its first one-day conference for fundraisers in arts, culture and heritage organisations. Fundraising for Arts, Culture and Heritage Causes Conference takes place on 4 March in London.

The conference will look at how the sector can strive to embed giving and philanthropy throughout arts organisations, from those just starting out to those with more fundraising experience.

The event will cover:

• Dealing with the changing environment
   
• Making a strong case for support
   
• Developing a fundraising strategy
   
• Using social media for prospect research
   
• Embarking on a large capital appeal
   
• Making legacies work
   
• Engaging corporates
   
• Telephone fundraising in the arts

Speakers include:

• Zoe Crick, Head of Development, Rambert Dance Company
   
• Dominic Codera, Researcher, Natural History Museum
   
• Rob Cope, Director, Remember a Charity
   
• Helen Searl, Corporate Relations Manager, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Fern Potter, Development Consultant and Senior Development Manager from Index on Censorship will also be speaking. In her presentation she will argue that the arts sector is in danger of being completely marginalised in the current climate of budget cuts. “We’re getting squashed out of local authority funding, completely dropped off the Government’s consultation on national wellbeing and were nearly sliced from Michael Gove’s [Education Secretary] EBacc proposals,” she said.

"If we don’t start getting smarter about making the case and providing impact analysis and evidence for our sector, we will not survive the current environment of squeezed funds. This conference is vital to our sector’s health.”

Tickets cost from £175 for an IoF individual member.

www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/arts2013

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.