# Four Fundraising Camps announced

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/03/05/four-fundraising-camps-announced/
- Published: 2015-03-05T11:12:43+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Four more Fundraising Camps are being held around the UK in the next three months.
UK Fundraising’s fresh take on a one-day conference will be held in Bognor Regis,
Canterbury, Belfast and Plymouth.**

Eight Fundraising Camps plus one in-house version have been held since the inaugural
one in Oxford 2013. They are inspired by the ‘unconference’ model which recognises
that the delegates at conferences often have useful experience and expertise, if
only one could unlock it on the day.

So, there are no set speakers at a Fundraising Camp: the delegates themselves are
encouraged to suggest topics and issues that matter to them, and then discuss them
in a series of 30 minute sessions throughout the day. There are so many that a typical
Fundraising Camp will have three sessions to choose from at any time.

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Fundraisers tell us that they come away with some valuable contacts and practical
advice from other fundraisers who have faced similar challenges.

Here is a report from the first Fundraising Camp:

What is Fundraising Camp?

## Sector specific Fundraising Camps

The first Fundraising Camp events were open to any fundraisers and to any topic 
related to fundraising. We have also started to introduce some topic or sector specific
Fundraising Camps, the first in December created for [arts and culture fundraisers](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2014/12/17/first-fundraising-camp-arts-fundraisers/).

The new series features one for heritage and environment organisation fundraisers.
Of course, these are still open to any fundraiser, but the conversations will inevitably
focus on heritage and environment fundraising.

## Next series

Booking for Fundraising Camp is now open. **Thank you to [Blackbaud](http://www.blackbaud.co.uk)
for once again supporting the series**.
The next events are:

**24 March**: Fundraising Camp Chichester (at the **Bognor Regis** campus of the
University of Chichester)
With support from the **University of Chichester**, home
to the world’s first undergraduate degree in fundraising

**20 April**: Fundraising Camp Canterbury
With support from the **Centre for Philanthropy
at the University of Kent**

**11 May**: Fundraising Camp – Heritage & Environment (in Belfast)
With support 
from **instaGiv, the Institute of Fundraising NI and NIEL**

**19 May**: Fundraising Camp Plymouth
With support from the **Centre for Sustainable
Philanthropy**, Plymouth University

Further Fundraising Camps are already being planned, with the intention being to
bring this kind of event to different towns of the UK and to different fundraising
disciplines.
 

## More on Fundraising Camp

 * **[Fundraising Camp comes to Leeds and Canterbury this week](https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/11/24/fundraising-camp-comes-leeds-canterbury-week/)(
   24 November 2013)**
 * **[Fundraising Camp returns to Canterbury](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/04/21/fundraising-camp-returns-to-canterbury/)(
   21 April 2015)**
 * **[Fundraising Camp came to Wales](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/09/28/fundraising-camp-came-to-wales/)(
   28 September 2015)**
 * **[Guest experts confirmed for Fundraising Camp Chichester](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/03/12/guest-experts-confirmed-for-fundraising-camp-chichester/)(
   12 March 2013)**