Gemma Walder

Lessons from the Annual Lectures: Gemma Walder’s view

by Gemma Walder

It isn’t only those gifted scientists who frequent London’s Royal Institution who can lead an experiment that will change the world. Fundraisers can too. And it starts with us all simply thinking... if not me, then who, if not now, then when? Click here to read Gemma Walder’s detailed account of this year’s Annual Fundraising Lectures held in London, on December 4th. 

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What’s next in fundraising? Part 2

by Gemma Walder

Gemma Walder, one of the winners of our essay competition to attend the Revolutionise Annual Lectures in London at the end of 2014, tells us what she thinks will be the next big thing for fundraising – the one thing that will give your supporters such a fantastic experience that they’ll want to introduce you to all their friends.

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About the author

Before I joined the charity sector, I never really thought about fundraising as a career path. One of my first experiences of fundraising was washing cars at a church fete when I was nine, with my dad telling me it was for the ‘greater good’. Personally I thought it was because he was punishing me for dripping ice cream all over his car a few weeks earlier. Frankly standing in a cold car park, covered in bubbles, washing other peoples cars, scarred me for life. Little did I know where life would take me.

After graduating from Roehampton University with a degree in history. I started as an intern at Arthritis Research UK. I then moved on to fundraising assistant at Global Charities, then became events co-ordinator at the Cystic Fibrosis Trust before becoming a regional fundraising manager. I have now just recently taken on the role as community development and fundraising manager at the Trust and I’m so excited to be a part of the change at this amazing and inspiring charity