The Raeburn Place Foundation has announced the appointment of Sally-Anne Hunter as Capital Appeal Director. She will lead the organisation’s capital appeal and manage the fundraising team with immediate effect.
Ms Hunter trained as a barrister before becoming a multi-award winning professional fundraiser. She has more than 20 years’ experience leading and implementing award-winning appeals that have raised over £25M in total. She has most recently been involved with the Commando Spirit Appeal, which she founded and directed, and she also sits on the Institute of Fundraising Standards Advisory Board.
Highlights of Ms Hunter’s career include leading appeals to secure the largest major gifts in the history of the Woodland Trust Scotland, securing a place on and becoming an Ambassador for the Entrepreneurial Spark Programme and being one of the Queen’s Baton Bearers in 2014, in recognition of her service to charity and sport.
She won Sports Business of the Year in 2016 and Event Scotland Awards in 2015 and 2016 and is also one of only four women to abseil the Shard, the tallest building in Western Europe, an event she organised for the Commando Spirit Appeal and for which she won an Institute of Fundraising award.
David Newlands, Chairman of Raeburn Place Foundation, said: “We are happy to have secured a fundraiser of Sally-Anne’s calibre to lead our capital appeal. With her pedigree and experience she will provide the impetus our fundraising campaign needs for us to achieve our goal of starting on site in May 2017.”
Sally-Anne Hunter said: “Raeburn Place Foundation’s vision to improve lives through sport and provide first-class facilities, sports programmes and healthy recreation for all is really exciting. I am proud to be joining the team that will bring these plans to fruition. It will be great to see this important and historic venue redeveloped and thriving at the heart of the community.”
Raeburn Place Foundation is also currently conducting interviews for three members of staff to strengthen its fundraising team. Once appointed, the new Fundraising Executive, Community Fundraiser and Corporate Fundraiser will join the capital appeal team under the direction of Sally-Anne Hunter.
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