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Morning - 7.55 am - 120 emails
07.55 and at my desk to begin the morning, more than 120 emails have come in over night, many about the emergencies we are currently responding to in Japan, Ivory Coast and Libya.  Thank goodness we have a Children’s Emergency Fund which enables us to respond to an emergency the moment it strikes.  The value of this fund is immense.  It enables us to reach children and their families as soon as disaster strikes without having to wait for extra funds to be raised.  This lifesaving rapid response work would not be possible without the commitment of donors such as RB, who have led the way with an annual commitment of £100k minimum which is supplemented further with additional financial contributions and valuable gifts in kind such as Dettol soap and liquid.

We have seen a huge increase in corporate support over the past 18 months not only from RB and it’s pledge to reach £10 million by 2015 with the Million Brighter Futures Campaign , but from [...]

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Douglas Rouse

Name: Douglas Rouse

Nationality: British

Career: Former City heavyweight Douglas Rouse has been heading up Save the Children’s Corporate Partnerships team since September 2009.

Attracted by the opportunity to drive a step change in the way the world’s leading independent children’s charity approached corporate fundraising he arrived with a wealth of experience from both the corporate and charity sectors.

His appointment at Save the Children followed a seven-year spell as Head of Corporate Fundraising at the British Heart Foundation.

Here he turned a team of 10 raising £1m a year into an award-winning fundraising force of 20, generating more than five times this figure by the time he left – a proud lasting legacy for a man who only originally intended to join the organisation as a part-time volunteer after losing two close family members to heart disease.

Rouse was free to take on the challenge after keeping a promise he made to himself aged just 23 to retire on his 40th birthday, spend more time with family and friends and make a difference to a charity with strong personal significance.

His success in the charity sector was preceded by an equally-dynamic earlier career in the City where he rose from the position of bank clerk at Williams and Glynn’s Bank in London in the late 1970s to Director of Investment Banks First Interstate and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson within just 15 years.

Prior to becoming a director he led various trading teams in key international markets including the UK, New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Timeline

1976 – Bank Clerk, Williams and Glynn’s Bank, London

1979 – Head of Remittance, Sumitomo Bank, London

1983 – Floating Rate Note (FRN) Eurobond Trader, Continental Illinois, London

1984 – Director , First Interstate Ltd.

1985 – Head of FRN, Prudential Bache Securities, London – leading trading teams in key international markets, including the UK, Hong Kong, New York and Tokyo

1988 – Head of FRN, Kleinwort Benson, London

1993 – Director Kleinwort Benson, London

1998 – Resigned from Dresdner Kleinwort Benson

2002 – Head of Corporate Fundraising, British Heart Foundation, London

2009 – Corporate Partnerships Director, Save the Children

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