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 motivated by purpose first. Doing so continues to give me the same buzz today as it did then.

Some I've worked with recently

• Aarhus Business School, Denmark
• City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
• The Design Museum
• Dulwich College
• European School of Management and Technology, Berlin
• Københavns Professionshøjskole, Denmark
• KU Leuven, Belgium
• Magdalen College School, Oxford
• Robinson College, Cambridge
• St Peter's College, Oxford
• The University of Helsinki
• Climate Central, Princeton (USA)

Talents

• Performance improvement and change management – people, culture, structure, process, strategy. 
• Fundraising: campaign planning, major gifts, case development. 
• Organisation stages: from start-up to mature organisations, large and small. 
• Sector experience: formal and informal education, arts and culture.
• International fundraising: in addition to my work across the UK, I have supported clients in Belgium, Germany, Finland, Italy, Saudi Arabia, USA.

Through my work over the past few years, I’ve also built up interests in social mobility and its intersection with equity, diversity and inclusion; nature connection and climate communications; “Agile” project management; emerging adulthood (18 – 30 years old); monitoring and evaluation in the third sector.

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

• I am a Governor at Magdalen College School, Oxford where I chair the Finance and Resources Committee
• I have personal connections to Germany and am a faltering speaker but enthusiastic learner of the language. One of my goals for 2026 is to pass my C1 exam which I recently missed out on by one mark!
• I am a late convert to outdoor swimming, and since Summer 2024 have been able to keep up a streak of swimming at least once a week in Brockwell Lido open pool – even when it was 3.3 degrees in January!