Recruitment / People

Friends and colleagues of Lindsey Burgess, a UNICEF community fundraiser, who died in December 2006, are once again hosting a charity netball tournament to celebrate her life.
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I'm delighted to see that three of UK Fundraising's bloggers appeared in Professional Fundraising magazine's 50 Most Influential in Fundraising poll 2008.

Congratulations to:
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Three of my clients’ small charities have advertised for fundraisers recently, using most of the channels available including the Guardian.
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Larry Brilliant, the head of Google's $2 billion foundation, is interviewed in today's Guardian.
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Looks like Gordon Brown has been trying to increase the proportion of awards going to voluntary sector workers in this year's Queen's New Year's Honours List.

BBC News has featured several:

Maureen Ainsley receives MBE for fundraising for the Battle Museum of Local History in East Sussex
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7163482.stm
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Congratulations to Betty Reed, 81, from Brighton for 40 years of local fundraising. She received the Royal British Legion's gold award for service in recognition of her 40 years of voluntary support for the appeal.

Her husband, Peter Reed, a disabled ex-serviceman, died 38 years ago. Since then, she has been supported by the charity.
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The Daily Telegraph reports that a woman aged 102 has appeared in a nude fundraising calendar to raise funds for her local football club, Ancaster Athletic in Lincolnshire.

Hats off, and everything else presumably, to great-great grandmother Nora Hardwick.
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