60 free seminars announced for charity and associations event
Howard Lake | 6 January 2015 | News
Conference House has announced that CHASE 2015, the event for charities and associations, will take place on 17-18 February 2015 at the Business Design Centre in Islington in London.
Now in its 23rd year, the event will feature 60 seminars for charity and association professionals. Entry to the event and to the seminars is free but prior online registration is recommended.
The two-day event, which includes an exhibition area of fundraising and association specialists, is designed to highlight the latest tools, techniques and practices in the sector. Exhibitors include Advanced NFP, Fat Beehive, Rapidata, Netxtra, Kingston Smith, and Hubbub.
Michael Webb, Director of Conference House, the organising body behind CHASE, said:
“For both charities and associations today’s landscape is really quite complex. Charities face new challenges in every area of their operations. In recent years, donors have become much more pro-active about how and why they give, and fundraisers must respond creatively. New technology offers new opportunities, but the scope of options can be confusing. Risk and regulations management is changing, especially in areas like fraud prevention and data protection. Charities are having to do more with less, meet all these challenges, and ensure that their service delivery remains excellent at the same time.”
He added:
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“We find that associations are particularly interested in how to engage members with new resources and services, how to generate increased revenue from events and conferences and how to push membership management to a digital audience, whilst often relying on limited or voluntary human resources.”
Seminar titles
Delegates at CHASE 2014
Seminars this year include:
• Why Victim Support Become the First Charity to Create its Own Crowdfunding Platform (Joanna Felgate, Victim Support).
• “Better by Design” CLIC Sargent’s Strategic Business Improvement Programme. (Sherine Wheeler, CLIC
• Is Information Security a Concern? Taking a Flexible Risk-Based Approach to Securing Your Data (David Shearman, Security Dialog).
• Find Out about Digital Fundraising Using eBay (Nick Aldridge, PayPal Giving Fund).
• Associations 2020 (Norman Rose, Institute of Association Management).
• Risk Management and Assessing the Risk of Fraud (Eric Hindson and Alistair Duke, PKF Littlejohn).
• Against the Clock: Efficient, Secure Data Handling Could Save a Life (Caroline Portlock, Blood Cancer UK and Lilah Walker, Adetiq).
Choice of seminar streams
Delegates can choose from seminar streams covering associations and membership, fundraising and marketing, technology, finance, compliance and leadership.
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.