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By Jenna Pudelek, Third Sector Online, 11 February 2013
Fundraising summit cancelled after controversy on gender balance
Organiser Giles Pegram was heavily criticised after he defended the conference's line-up of nine male speakers and one woman

A conference on the future of fundraising organised by Giles Pegram and Adrian Sargeant has been cancelled after controversy arose over the gender balance of its line-up of speakers.

The one-day event, entitled The Summit: Raising the Extra Billions, was to feature nine male speakers, including Sargeant, professor of marketing and fundraising at Plymouth Business School, and Pegram, a fundraising consultant and former fundraising director at the NSPCC. Jen Shang, a professor in philanthropic psychology at the University of Bristol – and Sargeant’s partner – was the only woman involved.