# Patrons, Presidents and Personalities: Working with High-level Volunteers

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/patrons-presidents-and-personalities-working-with-high-level-volunteers/
- Published: 2008-05-29T21:42:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Working with high-level volunteers can be very rewarding for charities. The profile
they can bring, as well as skills and experience can be of immeasurable value. But
if the relationship is the wrong one it can be frustrating and damaging for all 
concerned. So just how do you get it right? **

In “Patrons, Presidents and Personalities”, the only book to look exclusively at
this important area of volunteering, Eileen Hammond takes the key questions and 
tackles them with sound advice garnered from over 30 years experience in the charitable
sector.

 * What is the difference between patrons, presidents and personalities?
 * How do you identify and find the right individual for your charity?
 * How do you to persuade personalities to give time to your cause?
 * How do you maintain a mutually rewarding relationship?

Written in a lively, engaging way and packed with practical case studies from both
sides of the fence, this book will help you reach the personalities that other books
cannot.

## Reviews

“This excellent book is a breath of fresh air. Written with the confidence that 
comes from great experience and spiced with the author’s own inimitable humour, 
it offers the reader a sensible, step-by-step approach to the pros and cons of working
with high-level personality supporters.”
**Bridget Cluley**, Fundraising Consultant
and Trustee

 * **[New DSC book on high-level volunteers](https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/06/05/new-dsc-book-highlevel-volunteers/)(
   5 June 2008)**