Our Associates Team

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 Chartered 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 - his most recent award was being named Fundraising Adviser of the Year (UK) for 2017 & 2018 by the Global Finance Monthly Magazine Awards.

Paddy is a member of the Association of Fundraising Consultants (16 years) and the Chartered Institute of Fundraising (30 years).

Paddy's passion is tennis and he plays on the UK 'seniors' circuit. He 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 Chartered 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.

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 Chartered Institute of Fundraising and keeps up to date with charity legislation and fundraising trends.

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

David has over 20 years' experience working in the Third Sector having held senior management roles in national charities and been CEO at three different organisations.

David has worked across the UK in sectors as diverse as Animal Welfare, Young People, Disability Rights, Education, Dispute Resolution and Community Cohesion and has guided charities through periods of development and change.

David’s skills and experience include staff training, volunteer management, income generation and governance support. He has helped Trustee boards secure membership and structure appropriate to the needs of the organisation, has led management restructuring projects to ensure charities are well placed and sustainable for the future and has delivered papers on charity management at conferences in the UK and abroad.

David's passion is his Harley Davidson motorbike. He lives in north Yorkshire.

Matthew has much experience of working with disability charities and especially with churches and cathedrals.  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 £3 million..  He has a very strong track record in delivering funding from trusts and foundations, for capital projects.  Matthew prides himself on providing exceptional value for clients, working efficiently to deliver high quality work.   Matthew's passion is collecting ceramics. He lives in Birmingham.

Athina is a strategic professional with 14 years of experience. Passionate about developing teams and strategies, She thinks outside the box and creates unique income generating opportunities from individuals, corporations, trusts, government and community activities, across a wide range of causes. Her strengths are in spotting opportunities and delivering top quality solutions. 

Athina's passion is single sculling. She lives in Docklands, London