Stephen George, Julie Hunt, Gordon Michie and Joseph Cuff have been appointed as new trustees to the Institute of Fundraising board while Stephen Pidgeon has been re-elected to the board after his three-year term expired.
Bruce Leeke, acting chief executive of the Institute, yesterday welcomed the new trustees, who will sit on the board for the next three years:
“With the expertise of these committed individuals at the helm of the IoF, we will be able to continue pressing forward for the changes that really matter for fundraisers over the next year,” he said.
The new trustees have almost 100 years of fundraising experience combined. Stephen George, fundraising director at Maggie’s has previously been development director for legacy fundraising and director of community appeals at the NSPCC. He was also head of regional fundraising at Unicef and spent 12 years in fundraising and management roles at Scope.
Hunt is a fundraising adviser for an infrastructure agency supporting over 200 small/medium charities and has been in fundraising since 2003, initially as a volunteer.
Michie has been an active member of the Institute since 1995 and spent seven years as a member of the Executive. He has served on the majority of committees in Scotland and chaired the IoF conference in Scotland for two years.
Cuff is national fundraising manager for the Diabetes UK in Wales and has been a member of the Institute for ten years.
And Pidgeon founded sector marketing agency Tangible Response 25 years ago and has worked with nearly 200 national charities in the UK and overseas in that time. He is also chair of the IoF Standards Committee and head of the trustee team responsible for recruiting the IoF’s new chief executive following the departure of Amanda McLean.
Jo Swinhoe awarded fellowship
The Institute also announced that Jo Swinhoe, who recently left the Alzheimer’s Society where she was director of marketing and fundraising to become director of private sector organisation Tinnitus Clinics Ltd, has been awarded an IoF fellowship. The honour was awarded in recognition of her “exceptional contributions to fundraising, as well as to the IoF’s work”, and for her “work in transforming the Alzheimer’s Society into a high-profile, influential and successful organisation”.
Leeke said: “I would like to thank Jo Swinhoe very much for the wonderful work she has done for the IoF, and the whole fundraising profession, over the course of her voluntary sector career. She certainly deserves the accolade of Institute Fellow.”
