Giles Pegram
Giles Pegram is an independent fundraising consultant.
Prior to taking up consultancy work, Pegram was director of fundraising at NSPCC from which post he retired in April 2010 after 30 years at the charity. During his time at NSPCC Pegram has overseen the £15m Centenary Appeal in 1984 and the Full Stop Appeal which raised more than £250m between 1999 and 2007.
Pegram began fundraising at school when he set up an Oxfam group. Before the NSPCC he worked for Oxfam and Help the Aged. He was nominated UK Professional Fundraiser of the Year in 1994, and received the Lifetime Achievement in Fundraising award at the Professional Fundraising Awards in 2002.
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Four face-to-face fundraising advocates have signed up with the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association to defend and promote the mechanism in the media.
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The Institute of Fundraising is forming a task group to see whether there is a lack of talent at the most senior level in fundraising, nearly a year after former NSPCC director of appeals Giles Pegram was initially called in to investigate the issue.
Stephen Bubb, chief executive of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations is to receive a knighthood in the New Year Honours List which named over 100 people for recognition of their service to the voluntary and charity sectors.
The sector is failing to grow its own fundraising leaders, says Lindsay Boswell. It’s time for charities to start investing in talent and stop being frightened of promoting people.
The Institute of Fundraising has enlisted former NSPCC fundraising chief Giles Pegram to assess whether and why there is such a shortage of fundraisers with the skills and experience necessary to move into director-level roles.