The Chief Executive of the Church Urban Fund, Fran Beckett, is moving on from the organisation having been in post for the last 6 years. Ms Beckett joined the Church Urban Fund at a key point in the life of the organisation; with its future uncertain, there was a clear need to broaden its financial base and develop a greater range of support to faith based projects tackling poverty. Ms Beckett has led her team to successfully reposition the organization, bringing in new support for its work and developing a range of tools to assist projects to deliver their activities more effectively. Ms Beckett talking about her time at the Church Urban Fund and the future of the organization said, “I feel I have completed what I set out to achieve which was to take forward an organisation that had great potential but which needed to be set on a new, dynamic and self sustaining course for the future. A combination of listening to the grassroots, strong partnership working and developing new sources of funding have made all the difference. The work we do makes a lasting difference in the lives of those living in poverty in this country and the work must and will go on.”

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7 May 2008
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