About the author

Rob Woods is an award-winning trainer who has spent more than 14 years in fundraising, searching for ways to raise more money, more easily. He started out as a major gift fundraiser at the NSPCC. As an independent trainer he has helped more than 4000 fundraisers. He is a tutor for the IOF Academy. His clients include Oxford University, Oxfam, Tate and UNICEF UK. @woods_rob www.brightspotfundraising.co.uk

About the author

Award-winning trainer, Rob Woods – @woods_rob, www.brightspotfundraising.co.uk - has spent more than 14 years in fundraising, searching for ways to raise more money, more easily. He started out as a major gift fundraiser at the NSPCC. As an independent trainer he has helped more than 4000 fundraisers. He is a tutor for the IOF Academy. His clients include Oxford University, Oxfam, Tate and UNICEF UK.

About the author

Rob Woods (he/him) is director at Bright Spot. He is a big fan of IWITOT and loved the chance to speak at the event way back in 2014. Rob is an award-winning trainer, author and host of the Fundraising Bright Spots podcast – which has been downloaded 200,000 times. His company Bright Spot provides in-house training to fundraising teams and his flagship programmes Major Gifts Mastery and Corporate Partnerships Mastery are now in their eleventh year.

Rob is a former IWITOT speaker who has written and podcasted about his love for the event – he is mentoring one of our new voices at IWITOT 2025.

About the author