My Gurus

Emily Stubbs of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment tells us who has inspired her throughout her career in arts fundraising.

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By Emily Stubbs

01 January 1970

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Sarah Bardwell

I employed Sarah as part of the Individual Giving Team at English National Opera (ENO) in 1998, a couple of years after I first moved into fundraising, having been PA to the Chief Executive. She was incredibly knowledgeable about music and was brilliant at sharing her passion for opera with the donors. It didn’t surprise me when she went to the Kennedy Centre on their arts management Fellowship programme and returned to be Director of Handel House Museum – a job which she has done brilliantly for over a decade. She taught me that work can be fun, and that the more you enjoy it the more successful you are likely to be. She takes her work seriously but doesn’t take herself too seriously and she has transformed Handel House.

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