As a fundraiser and CEO I’ve been privileged to see how organisations, and the causes they serve, can be transformed through philanthropy – but it doesn’t just happen. At Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, we grew fundraising income from £15m in 2002/03 to £100m in 2017/18, raising over £1bn for the UK’s largest charitably funded hospital redevelopment, pioneering medical research and a patient, family and hospital staff support projects. It required careful thought, planning and preparation….plus a good dose of passion, enthusiasm and determination from everyone involved.

Some I've worked with recently

• Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust
• Barts Charity
• Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals
• Guy's and St Thomas' Charity
• James' Place Charity
• Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation
• Maudsley Charity
• Moorfields Eye Charity
• Museum of London
• NHS Charities Together
• RNOH Charity
• Royal Free Charity
• The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity

Talents

• Developing and implementing comprehensive fundraising strategies
• Creating high performing teams
• Coaching and mentoring
• Initiating, developing and nurturing donor relationships, especially high value donors and corporate partners
• Establishing effective volunteer Boards
• Capital and revenue fundraising projects
• Working with institutional leadership, clinicians and academics to develop fundraising programmes; building confidence in their role within the fundraising process
• Grant-making and impact reporting

Before More

• Led the merger of Sparks, the children’s medical research charity, into the GOSH Charity Group in 2016 and became CEO of Sparks in 2017
• Joined Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity in 2002 to establish a major gift fundraising team and became Executive Director/CEO of the Charity in 2008
• Head of Fundraising roles at CSV (now Volunteering Matters) and UCL
• Corporate and trust fundraising at the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
• Started my fundraising in the Direct Marketing team at Mencap

Outside More

• I am a busy family man – married with three children
• I enjoy pottering in my garden and cycling, though slower than I would like…
• …probably because I enjoy cooking…
• …and France, where I like to visit vineyards!