Home Secretary and key funders to address Funding the Future conference
Howard Lake | 25 September 2005 | News
This year’s Funding the Future conference, which features 40 speakers from trust, statutory and lottery funders, will be held at Central Hall Westminster on 15 November.
The keynote speaker this year will be Home Secretary, the Rt Hon Charles Clarke MP.
Action Planning, the fundraising consultancy who are putting on the event, say that last year’s conference was attended by 1,000 delegates, making it the UK’s largest one-day conference for fundraising professionals.
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This year’s event includes a combination of a large plenary session plus briefings for charities in different fields of work, followed by seven separate streams in separate halls for charities in each field of work. The programme includes:
- The Home Secretary, the Health Minister, the Children’s Minister, the Arts Minister and top officials from central and local Government on statutory funding in 2006.
- The Big Lottery Fund which is sending eight presenters to speak to charities in each field of work about their 2006-9 programmes.
- Professor Adrian Sargeant on fundraising strategy and the latest analysis of voluntary sector funding from Cathy Pharaoh, Research Director of CAF.
- Jonathan Porritt CBE, Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, on securing funding from industry for environmental projects
- 40 presentations by trust, lottery and statutory funders, addressing charities in seven streams: Health, Disability and Care Services, Building Communities / Developing Skills, Children / Young People, Arts / Heritage, International Development, faith-based charities and the environment.
The attendance fee of £125 includes VAT, lunch and all presentation materials.
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.