Recruitment / people

NCVO Chief Executive Stuart Etherington has called on the voluntary sector to abandon any beliefs in a "mythical age" when the voluntary sector was entirely separate

UK Fundraising's Howard Lake was asked by Internet magazine about the phenomenon of online begging.

Some entrepreneurial individuals have beaten charities to it in using the Internet to appeal for funds for themselves. UK Fundraising has featured some of the more successful or outrageous examples from time to time.

Professor Robert Boyd will succeed Joanna Foster CBE as Chair of the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales, with effect from November 2003.

Professor Body has been Principal of St. George's Hospital Medical School since 1996, Pro Vice- Chancellor for Medicine at the University of London from 2000, and was previously a Consultant Children's doctor for 30 years.

The Independent has published the 'FATSE 100', a guide to "the good, the bad and the outrageous in boardroom pay at Britain's 100 leading companies."

For just £199 you can publicise your fundraising vacancy on UK Fundraising 24 hours a day for up to six weeks.

Mike Lake, Director General of Help the Aged, has been appointed as a Trustee of the recently launched Air Ambulance Foundation.

Lake's charity interests include the interface between governance and management, the growing commercial nature of the sector and the role of charities in society.

HRH The Countess of Wessex has become the President of Brainwave, the charity that provides therapy for brain injured children.

Professional Fundraising magazine is asking readers to vote for the 50 people who will have the greatest impact on fundraising over the next 12 months.

The results will be published in the July issue of Professional Fundraising, which will be available at the Institute of Fundraising convention.

The first ever Parliamentary Review Ride, organised by the All-Parliamentary Motor Cycling Group, took place in London on Saturday 10 May and raised £14,000 for the NSPCC FULL STOP Appeal.

Anna Anderson has joined the Peace Hospice as Chief Executive, taking over from Noel Ratcliffe who has been acting Chief Executive.