I got the fundraising bug in my first job, when I led the team that conceived, planned and implemented the London Debate Challenge. We secured corporate, trust and governmental support for a 3-year-long, 451-school-wide project.

I’ve never lost that entrepreneurial passion, nor the sense of reward that comes from helping achieve those big dreams. This translates into all elements of my practice – even when working with clients to tackle the knotty, difficulty challenges that keep us all awake at night.

Early in my career I remember discussing job satisfaction with a friend who worked for a large multinational corporation. Our conclusion was that I would face all the same challenges he would, except there’d be much less money to spend, and I’d be working with people who did it for love. Whose challenge is the greater?

Some I've worked with recently

• Aarhus BSS
• Baker Dearing Educational Trust
• City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
• City of London School
• The Design Museum
• Dulwich College
• ESMT Berlin
• Highgate School
• Københavns Professionshøjskole
• Magdalen College School
• New City College
• Portsmouth Grammar School
• Robinson College, Cambridge
• St Helen's School
• St Peter's College, Oxford
• The Tiffin Girls' School
• University of Helsinki

Talents

• Supporting organisations to understand current performance and future potential, and to develop clear options for how best to achieve it.
• Working with individuals, teams, and organisations as a whole to achieve plans, drive performance and deliver change through values, behaviours, policy and process.
• Working across all aspects of fundraising: major gifts, campaign planning, case development.
• Working with start-ups and established organisations.
• Sector experience: formal education and youth development, social mobility, climate and environment.

Before More

• Chief Executive UpRising (2020 – 2024), the national youth leadership development and social mobility charity supporting young adults aged 18 – 25 from underrepresented and underserved backgrounds to drive change in their communities. 
• Partner, More Partnership (2010 – 2020). Engagements included multi-year campaign strategy development and implementation support for the €100M University of Helsinki campaign; staffing options development for UCL; campaign feasibility assessment for The Design Museum; interim management at St Peter’s College Oxford for the rapid £12.5m+ Castle Hill House project.
• Before More, I led development at national youth information advice and guidance charity YouthNet, at Cranfield School of Management, at University College School, and at the English-Speaking Union.
• Head of the Centre for Speech and Debate and then Executive Head of Development,The English- Speaking Union.
• The first in my family to get to higher education, I studied for a BSc in Computer Science at the University of St Andrews. I went on to teach and coach debate at the #1 Small Schools Debate Squad in the US. While at Cranfield, I studied for my MBA with The Open University, of which I am a lifelong champion.

Outside More

• Member of the Employment, Enterprise & Engagement advisory group at mcch, which supports people with learning disabilities, autism or mental health needs
• Avid cook
• Keen consumer of American TV series
• Faltering speaker but enthusiastic learner of German