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'Those dynamic people at AQ have been terribly busy! I've almost forgotten which dress pattern I was going to buy!'

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May 2008 - Legacy Prospect Database Joins WID Portfolio

Following on from the success of the Wealth Intelligence Database (WID) in helping organisations to identify key individual prospects, Prospecting for Gold and AQ have now launched the Legacy Prospect Database (LPD).

Like WID, LPD enables organisations to benchmark their existing datasets against 1.6 million records of individuals with property portfolios valued in excess of £400,000 alongside information on age, years of residency as well as other attributes of relevance to legacy fund-raising.

John Nicholls, Managing Partner of Arts Quarter LLP commented, "Planned Giving Campaigns are a vital component to sustaining the long term future of not-for-profit organisations and can be one of the most cost effective ways of raising large scale gifts. With the challenge being constantly on raising funding to meet today's organisational needs, at last there is now a tool available in the marketplace which will allow organisations with limited resources to step back and plan for their futures."

March 2008 - AQ Launches Professional Development Survey

Arts Quarter LLP has launched a National Survey on professional development opportunities for senior professionals in the cultural and not for profit sectors.

In launching the online survey, John Nicholls, managing partner of AQ commented,

"Since launching in January of this year, we have been approached by a range of potential partners inviting us to create a series of professional development opportunities for senior staff members and volunteers working within the cultural and wider not-for-profit communities. Many of our clients and friends across the sectors have also asked us to give thought to responding to their career needs. Before doing so, we wanted to understand fully the aspirations of potential participants and look to meet those as effectively as possible."

AQ's online survey will be live from 11th - 31st March and takes just a few minutes to complete. It aims to build up a wealth of data which will provide a true picture of the professional development needs of those senior staff working in marketing, communications, general management and fund-raising and the senior volunteers who often support them. AQ hopes that the results of this survey will lead to the development of a series of new-style training and development programmes.

February 2008 - AQ signs up Wealth Intelligence Database

As part of its suite of audience data analysis tools which already include Experian's Mosaic Micromaketer and Truetouch, Arts Quarter has this week signed an exclusive agreement with Prospecting for Gold - creators of The Wealth Intelligence Database - the UK's leading database of the wealthy and influential - to allow cultural organisations to mine their audience data for potential donors and private sector partners.

The Wealth Intelligence Database has been compiled from over 20 independent wealth management data sources held in the public domain over the last 17 years and contains some 300,000 individual data records for UK-based individuals with assets valued at in excess of £500 billion. The Wealth Intelligence Database enables organisations to benchmark their own current donor, audience and other stakeholder databases against the data sets published on Faststats and thereafter focus the efforts of their fund-raising campaigns based on the outputs of this filtering exercise.

John Nicholls, Managing Partner of AQ LLP commented, 'Following a lengthy period of discussion with the creators of the Wealth Intelligence Database, we are pleased to bring this extraordinary filtering tool to the cultural sector so that we are able to work with our clients to determine the focus of their fund-raising campaigns to ensure effective returns of investment.'