Just under 20 years ago I joined a bunch of fellow arts fundraisers on =MC’s National Arts Fundraising School, an annual fixture in the arts and cultural sector’s professional development calendar.
I wrote a blog piece for NAFS to remember and celebrate the career changing week I spent in a country house hotel in deepest Gloucestershire in 1998 and to reflect upon the fundraising skills I learned that I am still using today.
A sea fret creeps up the valley. The sierras, now softer than their name, a ripple of blue-grey silk. #wildwriting #betweenmountainsandsea
Family delphinidae, genus tursiops, species truncatus. 12 million years of ocean play. Now bottlenose-sky-dolphin. #betweenmountainsandsea
Releasing the cave-dank scent of history, mud pops and gurgles on the out tide, silting up the new, smothering the old traces. #wivenhoe
No matter how often I’ve seen it, sunset over the Colne at Wivenhoe is a homecoming & a site to return to. #wivenhoe