New Director at National Funding Scheme
Howard Lake | 7 October 2014 | News
The National Funding Scheme, which runs DONATE, the mobile giving platform for arts and heritage organisations, has announced the appointment of Sue Davies as its new Director.
She succeeds founding director Paul Cutts, and will take up her appointment in November 2014.
Davies has over twenty years of experience in the field of sponsorship and communications for arts and heritage, for cultural organisations, including English
Heritage, Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC. She has worked in the corporate sector developing and managing high profile arts sponsorship programmes for clients including Unilever, Corus and Shell.
She has also worked with the Mayor of London’s cultural office. She managed the opening event for the Fourth Plinth project in Trafalgar Square and in 2011 she was appointed to launch and run the Mayor of London’s initiative, Shubbak, the biennial festival celebrating contemporary Arab culture across the city.
DONATE was launched by The National Funding Scheme in May 2013. It lets people donate via text, SMS, QR code, and NFC. Around 260 UK arts and heritage organisations are signed up to benefit from the platform.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.