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An award-winning fundraising consultant who has been in fundraising since 1985. In August 1997 he returned from a three- year spell in Australia and has since established his own fundraising consultancy business drawing on wide work experience gained in the UK, USA and Australia. He has held a number of senior posts including Executive Director of The Starlight Foundation and Director of Public Affairs at The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

He did his Geography degree at the School of Oriental & African Studies (University of London), is a qualified teacher (PGCE from University of Liverpool) and won a scholarship to undertake his Masters degree in Demography from the London School of Economics. He has been a speaker at Institute of Fundraising regional and national conferences. He gained his professional accreditation in Australia as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) - one of the first British fundraisers to do so.  He also won a national ‘Excellence in Fundraising’ Award from the Fundraising Institute of Australia and more recently was named Fundraising Adviser of the Year (UK) for 2017 by the Global Finance Monthly Magazine Awards.

Paddy is a member of the Association of Fundraising Consultants (13 years) and the Institute of Fundraising (27 years).

Paddy specialises in providing effective diagnosis of fundraising programmes and advising on improving these programmes and increasing fundraising income.  Referral to and inclusion of other associates is provided when appropriate.  Paddy also provides staff training in all aspects of fundraising technique and management. He loves to continue giving fundraising leads and tips to previous clients.

Paddy lives in Redhill, Surrey and has a second office base in Macclesfield, Cheshire.

 Andrew has over a decade’s worth of experience of working strategically with charities to grow and diversify income streams. He has raised millions of pounds for good causes and has become proficient in both revenue and capital fundraising campaigns. 

He is an expert in all areas of income generation, most notably Trust & Foundations and has developed specialisms in both corporate giving and major donors. Andrew holds a wide range of charitable interests including mental health, young people, cultural, and religious organisations. 

Andrew has worked on a range of capital appeals from £50,000 to £1.6m. He enjoys the challenge and process of finding the right funding sources and writing eloquent and compelling funding applications. 

Previously a CEO of a mental health charity, Andrew holds a Certificate in Fundraising Management from the Institute of Fundraising as well as being on their directory of consultants. He has worked within Local Authority, NHS, Higher Education and the Charity sectors.

Andrew is passionate about his garden and lives in Chichester.

 Alex has a first class degree in Psychology from the University of Manchester and a Research MSc in Psychology from University of Amsterdam. His thesis was called ‘Brexit and the Key Psychological factors for voting Remain and Leave’, for which he was nominated for the Best Research Master’s Thesis award. His writing and research skills are second to none.

He has very successfully transferred these skills into the charity and university sectors and has undertaken many different research projects for a variety of organisations. For example, working at the Inclusive Growth Analysis Unit (University of Manchester), his social policy research informed several high-profile public policy documents (e.g. Greater Manchester Spatial Framework, Local Industrial Strategy). Alex has published articles on education, deprivation, neighbourhood change and economics.

His specialist focus has been communicating academic and scientific content for both non-specialist academic audiences and for general, public audiences. Alex has adapted his skills and undertakes various fundraising tasks, such as writing case statements (project documents), applying for grants from trusts & foundations etc.

He has worked with several clients, including Homelink Day Respite Care Charity where he has a lead role in developing effective surveys for measuring outcomes and future funding needs, writing fundraising applications, and providing advice and assistance on transitioning to a new database system, to optimise Homelink’s procedures.

His passion is building furniture, Alex lives in Manchester.

Matthew has a long experience of working with disability charities. He was head of legacy fundraising at the Stroke Association and at Action for Children he was in charge (amongst other responsibilities) of raising money to support residential homes for people with disabilities, both in the UK and in the Caribbean. For several years he was chair of the trustees of a small London based charity for young people aged up to 25 with severe disabilities.

He is currently engaged in leading a capital appeal at the Chailey Heritage Foundation, which will deliver a state of the art disability sports and recreation centre costing just under £3M.

He has a very strong track record in delivering funding from trusts and foundations, both for capital projects and revenue fundraising. Since January 2016 he has delivered about £3m in funding for clients from trusts and foundations. 

Matthew prides himself on providing exceptional value for clients, working efficiently to deliver high quality work. 

Matthew lives in Birmingham and is passionate about ceramics.

Amanda started her fundraising career in 1998 at the NSPCC, where she stayed as a Community Appeals Manager for eight years.  Since then she has worked for a wide variety of not-for-profit organisations – large and small charities, social enterprises and educational establishments.  Prior to fundraising she was a writer for family and children’s magazines.

Having become an independent fundraising consultant in 2013, Amanda has experience in trusts and foundation, major donor, community fundraising as well as project managing capital appeals and volunteer recruitment.  She provides support to CEOs, Directors and Heads of Fundraising to develop income in areas including writing funding applications; prospect research; advising on fundraising strategy; board development and devising stewardship programmes that build on relationships with new and existing donors and re-engaging with lapsed supporters.

Amanda has provided long-term consultation for many clients over the past five years, including children’s health, faith, disability, educational, environmental, hospice, carer, hospital, veteran and homeless organisations. She is a full member of the Institute of Fundraising and keeps up to date with charity legislation and fundraising trends.

Amanda's passion is film studies. She lives in Liverpool.

Trading as Telos Research, Rebecca works as an independent prospect researcher, consultant and research trainer, providing clients with tailored research into major gift prospects.

She has extensive experience of the UK major gift fundraising market having worked with a wide range of organisations during her 23 years in prospect research. This has included running Factary, one of the UK’s largest prospect research agencies and, for the past 15 years, running her own business, helping to devise research strategies and to identify new prospects as well as providing detailed intelligence on companies, trusts and individuals and providing mentoring and training.

Past and current clients include: University of Plymouth, The Bishops Conference of England and Wales, Winchester College, St Paul’s Cathedral, and Into University, to name but a few. 

Rebecca is a Member of the Prospect Research UK Group, a Member of the Institute of Fundraising, a former Member and sometime Events Chair of the Institute of Fundraising Special Interest Group, Researchers in Fundraising (2005-2013) and a former Committee Member of the Bristol-based perinatal support charity Mothers for Mothers.
 

Rebecca's passion is the built environment. She  lives near Bristol.