THE COLLECTIVE

Vic - Founder and Director of Fair Development

Vic is the Founder of Fair Development. She has almost 15 years’ experience working within the small charity sector and is passionate about helping small charities access the appropriate and affordable support they need and deserve. 

Vic specialises in strategy and systems thinking, change and transition management and organisational development. She loves supporting charity leaders to turn chaos into order! 

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You can see her full professional experience on her LinkedIn.

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Suzie - Trusts and Foundations

Suzie has been working in trust and foundation/grant fundraising for 10 years – 5 of them for small-medium international development charities working in East Africa, following 5 years working for wildlife charities in the UK. Her main role is Grants Manager for Play Action International. She holds a Certificate in Fundraising from the Chartered Institute of Fundraising as well as a BSc (Hons) in Biology and PGCert in Applied Management, and won the Fundraiser of the Year at the National Fundraising Awards in 2019.  

Covering all elements of trust and foundation fundraising, her key skills are: 

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• setting up and growing trusts and foundations as a new fundraising stream 

• prospect research 

• managing the funding pipeline 

• development of fundable projects 

• donor cultivation and stewardship 

• developing a case for support 

• application writing 

• grant management and funder reports 

Emily - Monitoring and Evaluation

Emily is a freelance consultant specialising in monitoring and evaluation. She has over 10 years experience working for public and charity sector organisations including the British Red Cross, Fairtrade International and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has worked across the humanitarian and international development sectors, covering a broad range of thematic areas including environmental education, sustainable agriculture, global health and WASH. Previously she has worked on projects in West, East and Southern Africa as well as in the Asia-Pacific region. 

Emily's key skills include monitoring, evaluation and learning, project management, fundraising, programme design and development and strategic planning and review. She especially enjoys working with organisations to design and improve their monitoring, evaluation and learning systems, tools and strategies.

John - Fundraising

John Lepp, author of Creative Deviations, is a direct response, marketing and graphic design expert with almost 25 years of experience working with charities around the world to help them tell better stories and to inspire donors to give, both online and offline.  He is a respected and coveted international speaker who has traveled the world helping fundraisers be more “human” and “vulnerable” to these other amazing humans we call donors.

Aruna - Programme Management

Based in Nairobi- Kenya, Aruna has over 15 years of experience, working with International, Pan-African and local NGOs in grant management, Programme management and M&E. Living in Kenya, she has a good understanding of the social and economic issues I the region and worked extensively in the education and health space. She is passionate about working with grassroots/community-based organisations, change makers and building their networks and strengths towards sustainable development.

At a personal level, she is passionate about Channelizing individuals, communities, and organizations towards building an inclusive and equitable society and believes in the Right to Education for all.

Her key skills are:

• Developing M&E system, log-frames, theory of change

• Grant-writing/proposal writing

• Strategy planning

• Project Planning

• Budgeting

• Research

Amsel - Charity Finance

Amsel is a freelance finance and governance consultant with 15 years experience in the charity sector. They have spent most of their career working across all aspects of the finance department, before specialising in management accounting. They have worked across arts, LGBTQ+, disability and youth charities, public sector (NHS) and international development. They work as BCF Consulting now, providing a mix of strategic and technical support to a range of clients. Specialities include deep-dive analysis of financial data, support on budgets and forecasts, and systems building, as well as problem fixing and advice. Alongside finance, Amsel can support on governance and trusteeship, supporting boards to understand their role and senior teams to get to grips with the specifics of charity leadership responsibilities.

They have a CIMA Diploma in Management Accounting (Level 4).

Alex - Marketing

Alex is a freelance marketing professional with 7 years of experience supporting charities and purpose-driven organisations both in the UK and South Africa. Alex’s specialise in brand stories, ethical marketing strategies, email marketing & organic social media. 

She’s passionate about making the big picture marketing “stuff” accessible small non-profits so that you can show up where it really counts, and spend less time online. She also believes that email marketing can be your small charity’s secret marketing and fundraising ingredient.

Chris - Fundraising and Impact

Chris is an international development fundraising and impact consultant, focussing on all things grant funding - from prospect research, through to programme design, bid writing, contract and consortium management, monitoring and evaluation systems and stakeholder reporting. Chris has over 8 years of experience working in the UK, East and Southern Africa and East Asia, and has extensive experience of securing and managing statutory income from major ODA funders including DFID, EU, Sida, AFD and USAID and international trusts and foundations. Outside of fundraising, Chris is experienced in programmatic and organisational monitoring, reporting and independent evaluation in the development space and appreciates the need for small organisations to integrate M+E functions into overall programme and donor management activities.

Amber - Small Charity Expert

Amber is an experienced and passionate mixed heritage (Black Caribbean/White British) charity leader based in the midlands with over six years consultancy experience, whilst employed at the infrastructure organisation for Small Charities - the FSI. She has successfully delivered Strategy, Impact, Fundraising and Governance projects and training for small (and some large) charities, from a project evaluation of a £2million lottery-funded women’s education programme for Adult and Community College, successfully bidding Central Government bids (FCDO, DCMS, Cabinet Office) to developing corporate proposals , partnership development and grant applications.

She has always enjoyed providing support to small and local charities, not only recognising the work and impact these organisations have but providing them with practical and fit for purpose support. 

Having been a Small Charity CEO successfully leading a charity through the pandemic, partnerships, a restructure and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Review, she understands the challenges and balancing required to nurture the drive and passion to develop a charity whilst managing the realities of limited resources and the constraints that brings.

Extensive Experience

• Fundraising strategy, income diversification and sustainability – especially Statutory Funding

• Monitoring and evaluation including outcome frameworks

• Financial Governance (policies and practice)

Leesa - Fundraising and Charity Leadership

I provide bespoke advice and support for charities and philanthropists. As a fundraiser, charity director and CEO, I have 30 years' experience of fundraising, strategic development, change and charity leadership in the UK and USA.  During that time I have also helped donors to build fulfilling and impactful social and environmental philanthropic portfolios.

I work with clients across the UK and overseas.  I am on the Board of Trustees at The Big Issue Foundation and a Fellow  of the RSA.

When in London you can often find me working from the 

House of St Barnabas where I am a member.

Helen - Communications

Helen is a communications specialist with over 15 years’ experience in designing and delivering communication strategies and campaigns for charities, local government, and national government. She has supported small charities as a consultant, as a Trustee, and she began her career working for a small charity. Helen values being able to support teams with limited resources to make an impact and a big difference to their clients and supporters. Her key skills are in creating clear communication strategies and plans, mentoring staff to boost their communications capacity, external affairs to build relationships and secure advocacy, and content development and copywriting. Helen can provide communications expertise to develop your charity’s communications strategy or to deliver projects.

Ben - Charity Leadership

Ben leads, grows and supports charities and social enterprises to achieve transformative social impact.

As the Chief Exec of international development charity Dig Deep, Ben has been at the forefront of transforming access to clean water, safe toilets and good hygiene for the last decade. He has led the charity from kitchen-table beginnings to collaborating with the Kenyan national and local government, using partnerships, education, training and advocacy to create sustainable change for the 1 million residents of their partner county. He also leads Dig Deep Challenges, a social enterprise established to raise funds for the charity’s work; and provides freelance training and consultancy to charities focused both in the UK and overseas.

Ben has been awarded DChA by the ICAEW, which recognises charity financial management at the highest level of knowledge and expertise, was awarded Scholar of the Year whilst studying at Durham University and is an alumnus of the Growth Project third sector leadership development programme.

Hywel - Trusts and Foundations

Hywel is a freelance fundraiser and project manager with ten years’ experience in the NGO sector. He has a background working as a fundraiser/development manager for small international development, social justice and health organisations. Hywel brings considerable experience in raising funds from trusts, foundations, corporates and institutional donors, and in developing suitable fundraising strategies for small NGOs. He is particularly interested in helping smaller charities to access the funds that will enable their work to continue for years to come.

Elise - Strategy and Programme Development

Elise is passionate about working with local communities to advocate for and deliver sustainable change, justice and protection. Currently serving as a part-time CEO, she has over 10 years’ experience working in international development and the humanitarian sector, having done so from the head office and within communities.

Elise's key skills and strengths include strategic planning development, programme development across the project management cycle (identification and analysis, planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating), facilitation through participatory and reflective learning techniques, capacity building for staff in the above topics, policy development and standards compliance, child rights, wellbeing, protection and safeguarding, Disaster Preparedness and peace building, and community development and advocacy.

Susie - Fundraising and Communications

Susie has over 12 years’ experience working in the not-for-profit sector both in the UK and internationally, but is particularly passionate about small, grassroots organisations where a special kind of magic happens. Susie has worked in fundraising and communications roles and is a highly creative, visual thinker who loves to find imaginative and accessible ways to present complex ideas and information. Her key skills are in strategic fundraising (planning and delivery), building communications capacity in global teams, brand design and development for small charities, copy and design, and accessible report writing. Susie has also just completed an Msc in Social Psychology during which she explored how cultural ideas of masculinity and men's emotional life's may be contributing to the crisis of male suicide in Britain.

Tiphanie  –  Graphic Design, Marketing and Website Development

Tiphanie is a part-time freelancer who specialise in creative design, brand consultancy and marketing. With over 6 years of creative industry experience, she is passionate about helping smaller organisations to find their aesthetic and have a positive impact on the world through reflective and thoughtful design strategies.

Her past work include the creation of logos, illustrations and packaging for companies as well as re-designing websites. Tiphanie also has years of experience in Marketing; from communication strategies to Google Ads campaigns and social media outreach.

Liz - Small Charity Expert

Elizabeth is the Founder & Director of T1International, a growing global charity that advocates for access to medication, healthcare, and other essentials that people with type 1 diabetes need to survive. She is also a consultant for small charities, businesses, and budding bloggers. Elizabeth has over eight years of experience in the non-profit sector and a track record of building strong relationships with individuals from all walks of life, as well as mobilising supporters and communities. Elizabeth’s key skills and strengths: small charity start-up, including the charity registration process; marketing and communications, including online and traditional press coverage; social media management and content development; diversity and inclusion; volunteer management; legacy and community fundraising; qualitative health and education research.

Kevin - Fundraising and Charity Leadership

With over 20 years in the charity sector, mainly working with smaller but growing overseas development charities as trustee, CEO and fundraiser; Kevin has now moved to offering consultancy support full time.

He has an MA, PGCE and is an MInstF (Member of the Institute of Fundraising); together with previous experience of working in education, finance and operations management

Kevin is particularly passionate about helping smaller organisations to grow, supporting then as they develop their vision and plans.  He also has a proven track record in identifying and securing funding.

Chrissy - Fundraising and Communications

Chrissy is a fundraising and communications professional who currently works for a small international development charity, Village Aid. Chrissy also has experience of working internationally as part of the Raleigh International team. Chrissy is passionate about biodiversity conservation with a livelihoods approach. She says, “I feel that too many development projects do not consider or include an environmental perspective. I would like to work to highlight the benefits that such approaches can bring to the success and long term sustainability of development work.” Chrissy’s key skills and strengths: fundraising, communications, international development, biodiversity, conservation, sustainability.

Wonu - Fundraising

Wonu has over a decade’s experience in fundraising. Her interest in fundraising and the not for profit sector started in her youth where she volunteered for international charities such as Oxfam, UNICEF UK and Christian Aid. Since then she has built considerable experience working for several NGOs including Plan International UK, Christian Aid, Girl Effect, Equality Now and the More than Brides Alliance, a partnership between Oxfam Novib, Simavi, Population Council and Save the Children Netherlands. She has worked with trusts, foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors based in Europe, the US, Africa and Asia. Through her career to date, she has learnt considerably about what makes donors tick and key principles around fundraising best practice. 

Wonu has also run training sessions at charities including Wetlands International and the Marine Society and Sea Cadets on various aspects of fundraising including grant writing, prospect research, donor cultivation, donor stewardship, and diversifying income streams. 

Wonu has an BA in Ancient History and History (2:1) from the University of Nottingham and an MSc in Africa and International Development from the University of Edinburgh.

Key skills/experience held:

- Proposal Writing

- Grant Management 

- Prospect Identification 

- Donor Profiling

- Prospect Management and Cultivation

- Donor Stewardship

- Fundraising Strategy 

Clare - Fundraising and Charity Leadership

Clare has over 20 years experience in the Third sector and has worked with a range of funders and NGO's the UK and internationally including local and central government, and most recently as Head of Funding at Comic Relief. Clare takes a pragmatic and solution focused approach and is experienced in strategy development, infrastructure and governance, theories of change, partnership development, fundraising support, grants assessment and embedding lived experience in organisations. Clare's two main mantra's are 'Keep it simple' and 'If you don't ask you don't get'. Clare is currently Managing Director of On Our Radar and Chair of The Wish Centre (Harrow) further information is available via Linked In 

Bruna - Photography and Videography

Bruna has 10 years’ experience working in the international development sector, including challenging setting in developing countries in The Gambia, Senegal, Tanzania, India and Bangladesh. She made content for a variety of small NGOs. She created films, animations and photography from conception through to delivery. Bruna has strong production, post-production and organisational skills including managing clients, budgets and shoots. Her key skills are: photography (project, documentary, product and portrait photography for print and web; retouching and exporting in a variety of formats); videography (scripting; concept and storyboarding; filming with DSLRs, HD and 4K cameras; lighting; interviewing; video editing; sound design and editing; delivery for web, television and event formats); motion graphics and animation (2d and 3d, environment and character animation);  graphic design (annual reports, posters and marketing materials); web design (web banners).

Paula - CRM and Fundraising

Paula works for a charity in Uganda that focuses on the deinstitutionalisation of children. Paula has a solid understanding of fundraising practices in the UK and has recently completed an MSc NGO Management course at Cass Business School in London. She has worked with a number of non-profit organisations providing database management and data protection advice, managing volunteers and consulting on fundraising strategy. She has experience in direct marketing, relationships fundraising, community, events and corporate fundraising. Paula’s key skills include: data protection, database setup and management, fundraising management systems, and fundraising strategy.

Emma - Fundraising and Programme Administration

Emma is a freelance fundraiser and programme administrator with sixteen years’ experience in the third sector in the UK. She has a background of working in development, supporting and working with grassroots organisations to tackle climate change, manage resources, and develop community assets and social enterprise. Emma has a BSc in Environmental Science and MSc in Development Management and is passionate about people and planet. Her key skills include fundraising, income generation and social enterprise, community engagement and consultation, community action on climate change, programme administration and development.

Nicola - Stategic Planning and Impact Evaluation

Nicola has over 17 years’ experience in the international non-profit sector both as a grant maker and programme manager in Europe and Africa. Over 10 years working for Amnesty International, Nicola secured in excess of £35 million from a range of international donors, successfully developing and grant managing multi-year proposals.

Nicola has an eye for detail and conciseness, particularly in relation to strategic planning, monitoring, reporting and impact evaluation. She previously worked as a strategic development consultant for a Netherlands-based foundation and for a European funding programme.

Nicola has a BA (Hons) in French and Politics, and speaks fluent French.

Lorraine - Fundraising

Lorraine is a fundraising professional based in Bristol, who currently works for international development charity PHASE Worldwide, leading on funding for nutrition, health, education and livelihood projects in Nepal. Lorraine has previous experience of working in WASH programmes, having spent time working with a small charity based in the UK.

Passionate about social justice and human rights, both locally and internationally, Lorraine also works with a charity in Bristol which helps prevent homelessness and provide food for people in need, leading on grants and corporate partnerships. A keen writer, she also contributes articles to blogs and websites about global issues. Lorraine’s key skills and strengths include: writing, trusts, foundations & institutional fundraising, qualitative and quantitative research, reporting, corporate fundraising, programmes.

Neil - Small Charity Expert

Neil has worked in the international non-profit sector for over 10 years. He has an MSc in Voluntary Sector Management, with Distinction from Cass Business School, London. He founded small NGO Village by Village in 2006 and as CEO has grown the charity into a successful organisation with growing income and programmes. Neil’s key skills and strengths: strategic planning, overseas implementation management, volunteer management, governance, no & low cost internet strategic planning & implementation, generation of an income steam, most things to do with small charity and business startups.

Louise - Advocacy and Research

Louise Jenkins is a London-based, Independent Consultant in Women's and Girls' Rights with 13 years experience designing and delivering engaging and transformative training, advocacy and research projects. Louise specialises in consultations on ending violence against women and girls (VAWG) and achieving gender equality. With excellent communication, research and negotiation skills, Louise has a proven track record of building robust relationships with a wide range of donors, partners and stakeholders both nationally (in the UK) and internationally. Louise has extensive knowledge and experience of movement building to end violence against women and girls with experience of working with diverse, multi-sectoral coalitions across Africa, Asia and Europe. A passionate feminist, Louise believes in ensuring the lived experiences and voices of all girls and women must be at the core of all programmatic, policy and research which seeks to support them.

Wayne - Strategy

Wayne is founder of Humanity Squared. His focus is on innovation, transformation and human centred strategy. He has worked in the charity sector since last century, half charity side and half agency. He has held senior leadership roles for Amnesty International, Refugee Action and Prisoners abroad, where his focus was on step change, transformation and people power. His agency side roles has seen him work with over 100 charities and NGO's, all with the aim of connecting people to causes they believe in, and mobilising them to drive positive change. He is also a trustee and leadership mentor. Wayne believes in the concept of 'humans, not hierarchy', and how collaboration and horizontal ways of working are the way forward. Wayne is a failed artist and a dreadful musician. He is also an aspiring human, husband, and father. He lives just outside of Brighton with 2 cats that hate each other.

Lorelle - Graphic Design and Brand

Lorelle is a Graphic Designer, Brand Consultant and Creative Changemaker with 10+ years of creative industry experience. Starting out in the private sector, she went on to head up brand for award winning, global education business, Twinkl. In 2017, she launched her own conscious, creative studio - Great Good Creative; working with charities and not-for-profit organisations to make real change in the world through design that inspires action. In 2021, she also founded a career support platform, The Creative Occupation, dedicated to connecting the creative workforce and championing creatives from BAME and other marginalised backgrounds.

Kate - Strategy and Fundraisng

Kate has worked in the charity and not-for-profit sector for nearly 20 years, mostly for small charities. She now works as a freelance charity consultant, working with charities and not-for-profit organisations to develop their strategic vision and services, including scoping new projects, as well as providing specialist fundraising, communications and marketing expertise.  Kate also advises on charity governance and helps charities design and develop effective internal processes. She has experience managing charities as a trustee and a successful track record of helping charities increase their funding throughout her career. 

Her key skills are: developing a charity strategic vision; working with trustees and charity employees to provide a clear direction and building a delivery programme to support this vision; developing fundraising strategies including building trust and foundations pipeline, developing corporate fundraising programmes and expanding community fundraising; and developing a marketing platform for charities to build their brand and connect with supporters. 

Nathan - Facilitation and Coaching

Nathan is the son of an Italian immigrant, an uncle of two, and largely a product of his first 18 years growing up in the San Francisco
Bay Area in California. Nathan runs Almost Any How and facilitates and coaches teams and individuals  
to reflect and feedback more regularly, communicate more
compassionately and design more collaboratively.

Lucy - Fundraising

Lucy has over 12 years experience in business development, bidding, setting and working to a strategy and fundraising experience. This experience has been gained at both small and large charities/not for profits. 

Lucy has led teams to submit big bid and grant submissions to departments such as DCMS, Big Lottery and the Department for Education. She currently leads all fundraising at Achieving for Children, a child protection social enterprise. 

Lucy has experience of setting up and managing charitable arms, setting up consultancy/trading vehicles, managing external relationships/PR and lobbying central government for funding.  Lucy is a qualified coach and mentor and uses a range of techniques and theories to allow teams and people to understand each other and use their authenticity for a greater good.

Liz - Charity Finances

Liz is founding Director of Embrace Finance, a not for profit social enterprise building financial confidence in social leaders. Liz works with social leaders to build people first, financially confident, world changing organisations. She has 20 years' plus experience of working with registered charities, social enterprises and charitable foundations and specialises in:

01 | Interim senior level finance and governance support

02 | Regular external freelance finance support

03 | Training, mentoring and facilitation across the finance and governance spectrum

04 | Project management and delivery including systems development and resilience building

Liz says, ‘we have three jobs in finance; (1) building robust financial management systems and processes, (2) setting a viable financial strategy that is sustainable and compliant, and (3) taking financially resilient decisions that build our social impact not just today and tomorrow but in years to come. I specialise in working with social organisations who want to invest time and resources in building their financial confidence and financial storytelling so that they can really marry money and mission. My personal mission is to help social leaders find their love of finance, or, at the very least, take the stress out of it all.’

Liz is Treasurer Trustee of the Association of Chairs. Liz is a certified bookkeeper and a member in practice of the IAB and holds an MSc in Charity Financial Management and Accounting.

Felicity - Strategy and Change Management

Felicity is an experienced consultant, specialising in supporting clients with change management, communications, engagement, strategy and planning. She has worked as a management consultant in the public and third sectors, building strong problem-solving and project management skills alongside specialist change management and communications work.

Felicity left corporate consulting to support a wider range of mission-led organisations. She has established and is running her own non-profit, focused on youth employment and social mobility.

Paul - Fundraising and Marketing

Research, development, project/campaign planning/implementation and management, with an obsession on obtaining a return on investment which will make you reassess your expectations! 30+ years experience working within London Advertising and Marketing agencies as a: Planner, Designer and Writer, notably WWAV Rapp Collins where he produced and lead creative fundraising campaigns for: Cancer Research UK, NSPCC, Oxfam and RSPCA.  In 1991 he helped set up The Big Issue streetpaper in London and still works with the paper's co-founder John, The Lord Bird MBE on a project to project basis specialising in R&D.

Over and above any professional fundraising work, in his spare time Paul has to date, helped raise over £6.5 million from successful grant applications for good causes.

Joel - Fundraising and Leadership

Joel has more than 25 years’ experience of fundraising management, including 10 years leading large scale individual giving programmes for international development and human rights organisations, and 15 years leading fundraising functions in the UK health and social care sector.

For the last 4 years, Joel has been working as a consultant to not for profits in organisational development and governance, as well as business development and fundraising.

In addition to his consulting projects and interim roles with charities, Joel also enjoys teaching the Level 3 Fundraiser Apprenticeship, believing that increasing the range of routes into the profession for people starting their careers, or moving into the sector, is very important if we are to achieve better representation within fundraising.

Joel enjoys working with clients to help identify their challenges and opportunities and supporting them to develop greater confidence in delivery of their mission.

Vanessa - Fundraising, Strategy and Innovation

Vanessa is a freelance consultant working on fundraising, strategy and innovation for mission-driven organisations. She has over 10 years experience designing programmes and raising funds for social enterprises and NGOs. Her passion for social change has led her to support small child rights charities across Europe and the UK, grassroots leaders in East Africa and social entrepreneurs in South America, using human-centred design and agile thinking to help them build strong foundations, deliver on their missions and become more financially resilient.

Her key skills range from proposal writing / fundraising strategies to helping improve governance and leadership. She loves to engage deeply with organisations to stimulate fresh thinking, uncover blindspots and together, navigate change and organisational development.

Laura – Volunteer Involvement, Trustee Recruitment and Trust Fundraising

Laura has 18 years experience in the charity sector, mainly in strategic volunteer involvement. Laura has worked in a wide range of roles helping organisations with recruiting, supporting and developing volunteers. Since becoming a Consultant in 2018, Laura has developed volunteer strategies for the Marine Conservation Society, England Netball, The Churches Conservation Trust, the MS Society and The Solicitors Charity. Laura has a keen interest in trustee recruitment and induction and is a trustee at Getting on Board.

Throughout her roles, Laura has also been responsible for trust fundraising and undertook a master’s degree in Fundraising in 2014. Much of her current consultancy work is around helping to make the trust fundraising process smarter and easier  for organisations. This includes developing a case for support, template applications and stewarding tools, bid writing and finding the right funders for an organisation. 

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Laura volunteers for Yorkshire Netball, Getting on Board and Bramley Elderly Action in her spare time.

Naami - Strategy and Organisational Development

Naami is a positive psychologist and freelance consultant specialising in strategic planning, partnerships, and organisational development. Naami loves helping small organisations - particularly those in the women’s sector and those run by and for minoritised communities- to thrive, supporting them to develop their vision and plans and generate income.
Naami has over 15 years’ experience in voluntary sector leadership- working on a range of issues from health inequalities through to creating impactful opportunities for young people. 
 

Naami has an excellent knowledge of the funding landscape and strong track record in identifying and securing funding. She currently works as a consultant- providing
support to grassroots organisations, infrastructure organisations such as Welsh Women’s Aid and funders such as Rosa and Comic Relief. She also volunteers in the sector - as a non-exec director of Black Girls Hike CIC and a trustee of Arts
Education Exchange charity.

Fiona - Fundraising, Strategy and Organisational Development

Fiona has almost 20 years' experience working across the charity and local authority sector, predominantly focussing on women's and children's rights and empowerment. She brings experience of navigating different challenges and is a very solutions-focussed consultant, working with stakeholders and beneficiaries from a bottom up, collaborative approach. She also supports charities with governance and internal processes, bringing 7 years' experience of being a trustee of a women's rights charity and working with Boards across a number of other organisations, including as a CEO. 

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Her key skills are in fundraising, strategic planning and organisational development - focussing on empowering small charities to succeed and grow.

Catherine - Fundraising and Communications

Catherine has over 15 years’ experience in the charity sector, including four years as Deputy CEO and Director of Fundraising and Communications and fundraising roles at Tommy’s, Girlguiding and Hospice UK. She is also a trustee for the inspirational grant making charity, the Royal College of Nursing Foundation. 

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Catherine has raised multi-millions for the causes where she has worked and has expertise across all fundraising income streams. She specialises in the high-value disciplines: trust prospecting and applications, corporate partnerships, soliciting major donors, and high-value events. This includes winning the Poundland partnership for Tommy’s worth over three million pounds, personally securing five, six and seven figure gifts from individuals and trusts and foundations, and winning The Telegraph newspaper partnership, who described her pitch as the best they had ever seen.

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Catherine was recently recognised in Fundraising Magazine’s 25 Under 35 list of outstanding young fundraisers, for her efforts supporting fundraisers during the pandemic.