Becky Slack, editor of Professional Fundraising magazine is to step down. She is to join the fundraising department at the British Red Cross as a senior corporate partnerships executive. During her two and half years at the helm of PF, Slack has led the magazine through a major rebrand, which resulted in subscriptions rising by 67 per cent.

Fundraisers can now catch-up on news,information and inspiration from around the globe thanks to a new'series of blogs launched on PF that focus on a variety of fundraising topic

Outgoing Institute of Fundraising chair Joe Saxton has been asked by his successor, Paul Amadi, to launch an investigation into fundraising by text message.

Charities should be careful when using the term stewardship because it is the donors, not the fundraisers who are the stewards of the cause, according to a stewardship officer at the Church of England.