# New Director at National Funding Scheme

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/10/07/new-director-national-funding-scheme/
- Published: 2014-10-07T09:10:44+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The National Funding Scheme, which runs DONATE, the mobile giving platform for arts
and heritage organisations, has announced the appointment of Sue Davies as its new
Director.

She succeeds founding director Paul Cutts, and will take up her appointment in November
2014.

Davies has over twenty years of experience in the field of sponsorship and communications
for arts and heritage, for cultural organisations, including English

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Heritage, Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC. She has worked in the corporate
sector developing and managing high profile arts sponsorship programmes for clients
including Unilever, Corus and Shell.

She has also worked with the Mayor of London’s cultural office. She managed the 
opening event for the Fourth Plinth project in Trafalgar Square and in 2011 she 
was appointed to launch and run the Mayor of London’s initiative, Shubbak, the biennial
festival celebrating contemporary Arab culture across the city.

DONATE was launched by [The National Funding Scheme](http://www.nationalfundingscheme.org)
in May 2013. It lets people donate via text, SMS, QR code, and NFC. Around 260 UK
arts and heritage organisations are signed up to benefit from the platform.

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