KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ABOUT FUNDRAISING
Department Days and Conference Speaking
“Days after Rob’s session for my department at VSO, I used the strategies he taught us on story-telling in a major donor fundraising meeting. It was one of my best moments in fundraising and the donor made a gift of £100,000 to our Emergency Appeal.’’
Mark Rowland, Mental Health Foundation, and formerly Head of Fundraising at VSO
A Strategic Approach
Department days and charity conference speaking, whether a conference or department away day needs to deliver progress in the key areas you have set out beforehand. If not, it’s a waste of resources, both in terms of the time, money and energy spent creating the event, and in terms of lost productivity because people were taken away from their jobs to attend.
And delivering plenary presentations to a large group of people, with a broad range of job types represented in the room, requires advanced speaking skills rather than just fundraising skill or skill in conducting meetings with smaller teams.
When the stakes are this high, it’s important to find a speaker with a proven track record of teaching and inspiring large fundraising groups. Otherwise, you risk your staff getting bored and even leaving demotivated by your away day.
The Speakers
Rob Woods
Rob Woods and Ben Swart are experienced speakers, having delivered hundreds of presentations, workshops and keynote sessions for charity audiences across more than a decade. They have learned exactly how to engage an audience and inspire them to take action long after an event has ended.
Experience
Rob has been delivering conference presentations since 2005. He has spoken at:
- CIOF Convention (25 presentations in 12 years).
- International Fundraising Congress (more than 17 masterclasses and workshops in 9 years).
- CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) Europe Annual Conference (Top 10% Speaker).
- Hospice Income Generation Network conference
- Festival Del Fundraising, Italy.
- Scotland Institute of Fundraising Conference (delivered plenary address)
- Fundraising Ireland Conference (delivered plenary address)
He has also delivered in-house plenary presentations to conference groups of up to 300 people, including sessions for:
- Action for Children
- The Children’s Society
- The Princes Trust
- Red Cross and Red Crescent
- Greenpeace
- NSPCC
- RSPCA
We’d love to hear about your team(s) and explore what topic would make the biggest difference.
Ben Swart
Ben is an experienced international and plenary speaker. He has spoken at the International Fundraising Congress (IFC) Amsterdam, the Portuguese, Norwegian and Scottish Fundraising Conferences, Showcase for Fundraising Innovation and Inspiration, the Chartered Institute of Fundraising Convention, and many more.
His sessions regularly score in the top ten of all conference speakers. He’s helped inspire rooms with hundreds and sometimes thousands of people to shift their belief, ideas, tactics and results. Including:
- MSF
- Alzheimers Society
- Compassion UK
- NSPCC
- UNICEF UK
- Environmental Funders Network
- UN Habitat
- Light For The World
To see him in action click here To see him in fundraising action speaking to a room of 2,000 people click here
We’d love to hear about your team(s) and explore what topic would make the biggest difference.
We’d love to hear about your team(s)
and explore what topic would make the biggest difference.