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MEET OUR EXPERTS Autumn 2022


We hope this issue will bring a warm glow to the dark winter months ahead, with a package of inspirational stories showing what can be achieved when people and organisations work together to support schools.


Music brings pleasure to us all and is an important part of many people’s lives. Yet it has been increasingly sidelined in schools as funding cuts have taken hold. That’s why we’re delighted to profile the fabulous Music for All charity, with its ambition of giving every child the opportunity to play and create music.


We also talk to one multi-academy trust that is raising pupil aspirations in an area of deprivation by extending community and careers provision outwards from its five schools into exciting long- term local partnerships.


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Our cover story is from fundraiser Alison Cox, who developed her part-time role to bring in funding for large-scale refurbishment projects across her secondary school. Alison shares her tips on how to build a long-term culture of giving, whilst school income generating manager Amanda Burgess recalls her personal experience of getting started.


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ALISON COX is development director at Aylesbury Grammar School. Coming from


a background in marketing and PR, she was appointed by the school to establish a development office in 2011. She is responsible for leading the school’s fundraising, marketing, media and alumni relations activity.


AMANDA BURGESS is community liaison and income generating manager at Priory


School, Lewes. She worked for 25 years in the voluntary sector, gaining much of her fundraising experience in her last role as a project manager.


HELEN BURGE is deputy chief operations officer at The Priory Learning Trust.


She is a fellow of the ISBL and school resource management adviser with Cotswold Beacon Academy Trust.


LOUISE BENNETT is CEO of the Institute of Development Professionals


in Education (IDPE), which supports schools to develop fundraising and engagement programmes through training, guidance, benchmarking and partnership work. She has more than 20 years of experience in the fundraising sector.


GRANTS AND MEMBERSHIP Sarah Everson sarah.everson@communityinspired.co.uk


RESOURCES Emma Griffin emma.griffin@communityinspired.co.uk


ART DIRECTOR Carol Rogerson DESIGNER Joanna Bettles SUB EDITOR Zoë Hill


ADVERTISING AND SALES Richard Manville richard.manville@funded.org.uk Tel: 01342 821332


HELEN DOWSETT is a former MAT financial controller and now a budget management expert


for schoolbusinessservices.co.uk, which provides financial planning and forecasting software for more than 2,200 UK schools.


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