The Sunday Times today publishes its "definitive guide to the richest 1,000 in Britain and Ireland", a standard reference publication for many fundraising researchers. The 102-page guide is published free with the newspaper.
Fundraising researchers are going to find it a little more difficult to research business leaders.
The Observer reports that 1,852 British directors of companies have successfully applied to have their home addresses removed from their listing on the Companies House register.
Wealth researchers Sunrise Publishers have published the Rich Address List, a directory of contact details for individuals named in the wealth lists published by The Sunday Times and The Mail on Sunday.
UK prospect researchers now have an e-mail discussion list on which to share advice and ideas.
Prospect-research-uk is being run as a free service using the Yahoo! Groups facility. Prospect researchers are using it to post questions and share their expertise.
Messages can be received singly or in daily digests.
EuroBusiness magazine has published details of the World's 200 Richest Women. This is the latest survey of wealthy people, following on from the UK Royal Family and Europe's wealthiest 400.
Eurobusiness has published a list of the 400 wealthiest people in Europe. These people are worth at least ‚€450 million. Indeed, 165 of them are euro-billionaires, according to Eurobusiness.
Charles Handy's latest book focuses on some of the UK's leading entrepreneurs and as such could prove useful background reading to prospect researchers.
If you haven't yet discovered the Internet Prospector you are in for a treat. This volunteer-run monthly publication grew out of the venerable PRSPCT-L e-mail discussion list, and regularly distils at no charge the expertise of numerous prospect researchers.
