|  Paul Amadi, Chair
Paul Amadi has been a Trustee of the Institute of Fundraising since July 2006 and Chair since 2008. Paul has recently become Director of Fundraising at the NSPCC, where he is responsible for an income target of over £140m generated by over 400 fundraisers. Prior to this Paul was Group Director of Fundraising at Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) and was responsible for managing a team of 500 fundraisers who generated the voluntary income RNIB required to develop its work. Paul has a long-standing interest in disability issues. Before joining RNIB in June 2006, he was Director of Fundraising at Sense for over four years and before that, Deputy Director of Public Affairs at Leonard Cheshire, another national disability charity. This came after starting his fundraising career with National Childrens Homes. Paul obtained his first degree in politics at Nottingham University and his Masters at LSE. |
|  Alan Gosschalk, Vice-Chair
Alan Gosschalk has been a trustee and the Vice-Chair since July 2005. Alan's career started in brand management, but he soon decided that the voluntary sector gave him greater opportunity to 'make a difference'. He initially joined Help the Aged in a Marketing role, moved to The Imperial Cancer Research Fund as Head of Marketing (where he won 'Charity Direct Marketeer of the Year'), and then became Fundraising Director at The Royal National Institute for Deaf People. Alan joined Shelter as Director of Fundraising in February 2000, during his time Shelter's voluntary income more than doubled.Alan was then Fundraising Director at AMREF from 2008 until December 2009. Alan is now working at Blue Frog. Alan is Chair of the ImpACT coalition, which aims to galvanise the voluntary sector to be more transparent and accountable and to do more to educate the public, supporters and media about the realities of modern-day charities. He is also a trustee of the overseas charity, 'Hope & Homes for Children'. |
|  Kevin Geeson, Honorary Treasurer
Kevin Geeson was appointed as a Trustee in July 2007. He is currently working at the NHS Confederation as Deputy chief Executive, Kevin has worked for such diverse organisations as the RNIB, Metropolitan Police and London Borough of Newham. Kevin is an experienced and energetic senior executive and a forward thinking leader with a track record of achieving change. His previous experience will give him good stead as Honorary Treasurer for the Institute. |
|  Mark Astarita, Trustee
Mark Astarita has been a Trustee of the Institute of Fundraising since February 2008. He joined the British Red Cross in 2003 moving from The National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) where he held the position of Deputy Chief Executive. Mark has over 17 years experience of fundraising in the voluntary sector joining the NDCS from the small charity, Prisoners Abroad, his first fundraising job. From 1994, Mark was responsible for directing all the NDCS Fundraising, Public Relations, Membership and International activities. Back when he started with NDCS the charity's fundraised income stood at around £1m per annum; during Mark's time voluntary income rose more than ten-fold. Since joining the Red Cross Mark has driven through the new fundraising strategy 'Volunteering to Give', secured an additional £25m of fundraising and retail investment and seen non-emergency income go from £55m to over £100m pa. |
|  John Baguley, Honorary Secretary
John Baguley has been a trustee of the Institute since July 2006, a member of the Convention Board . He is Director of the International Fundraising Consultancy. The author of “Successful Fundraising” and a former Fundraising Director for the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, Amnesty International UK and Friends of the Earth. He was the first Director of International Fundraising for Amnesty's International Secretariat and the first Director of the Soil Association. He has extensive overseas experience, having worked and spoken at workshops and seminars in most parts of the world. |
|  Gerry Beldon, Trustee
Gerry has been a Trustee since 2008. Gerry has worked in the not-for-profit sector for 28 years, with national organisations including Barnardo’s and Citizens Advice as well as regional and local organisations. He has extensive experience in all areas of fundraising, with special interests in the challenges of revenue generation in the field of Social Welfare. A Trustee of a local Citizens Advice Bureau, he also serves on the national Citizens Advice Governance Advisory Board. He currently serves as Chair of Northumbria Junior Chess Association, and is a member of the North East Social Capital Forum. Gerry has been a consultant since 1997, specializing in revenue generation in the Social Welfare field. In 2006, with Carl Chapman, he set up 26-01, a Community Interest Company serving the not-for-profit sector. Gerry brings to his new role as Trustee of the Institute a passion for the profession and a commitment to serving and supporting grassroots fundraisers across the UK. |
|  Fiona Duncan, Trustee
Fiona Duncan became a Trustee of the Institute of Fundraising in July 2008. Her role is to provide the link between the UK and Scottish Executive Committees. Fiona’s involvement with the Institute goes back to the mid 90s when she joined the Scottish Training (now Professional Development) Committee. Fiona chaired the Institute of Fundraising’s Scottish Executive Committee from November 2003 until June 2006 and was awarded a Fellowship in January 2007. Fiona has been in the voluntary sector for 16 years and since October 2006 has been a senior consultant with THINK Consulting Solutions. Prior to joining THINK, Fiona was Director of External Affairs at Capability Scotland for seven years and before that, Head of Development at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and WaterAid’s Manager for Scotland and Northern Ireland. |
| Mena Gainpaulsingh, Trustee Mena became a Trustee of the Institute of Fundraising in July 2009. Mena has been working in the charitable sector for almost 11 years, initially working at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, where she helped to raise £5 million to build a new treatment centre. Following the success of this appeal, she set up the major donor programme at the Medical Foundation. Since leaving the Medical Foundation, she has run the trust programme at Rights of Women (where she is still a volunteer) and over the past 6 years has worked as a consultant for a number of organisations, including Liberty, St Mungos, Ealing Council and Vista. Her achievements include raising significant sums from trusts and foundations, including writing and supporting organisations to develop successful bids of up to £2 million. Mena is also the Secretary of the Institute of Fundraising Consultants’ Special Interest Group.
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|  James Hammond, Trustee
James Hammond has been a Trustee of the Institute of Fundraising since July 2007.
James, who runs a branding and fundraising consultancy, cut his teeth in the commercial sector working for some of the UK's top blue-chip companies such as BT, Virgin, EMI and Yellow Pages. His new book Branding Your Business, published by Kogan Page has received positive comments from the commercial and not-for-profit sector and has been described as 'an outstanding and intelligent guide to branding in the 21st century.' In addition, James is a qualified psychotherapist specialising in the treatment of depression, and is Chair of the National Association of Counsellors, Hypnotherapists and Psychotherapists, which operates a national therapist referral 'helpline'. |
|  Jeremy Payne, Trustee
Jeremy Payne has been a Trustee of the Institute of Fundraising since July 2005.
Jeremy is working as a consultant and sits on the Institute’s Membership and Marketing Committee. Jeremy has been a professional fundraiser and communicator for 18 years holding various positions in this country and overseas with Age Concern, British Lung Foundation, Leonard Cheshire, UNICEF Australia, Samaritans, and THINK Consulting Solutions. He also had a two year spell at GlaxoSmithKline managing a small team in international marketing and left at the time of the merger with SmithKline Beecham.
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|  Stephen Pidgeon, Trustee
Stephen Pidgeon is was elected as Trustee in July 2008.
Stephen’s been running direct marketing agencies close to the fundraising sector since the early eighties. He joined Chapter One, set up Direct Results in 1988 and the specialist Fundraising Unit at generalist agency Brann, in 1989. In agency terms he’s a ‘suit’ which means he’s been developing strategies and launching campaigns for charity clients throughout his marketing career. His passion for fundraising led to the mighty step of setting up his own agency with two colleagues, Target Direct, in 1993 building it to a £33m turnover business by the end of 2007, employing 130 staff. But now it is part of a publicly quoted marketing company, and has a new name, Tangible Response, so he’s back doing what he’s always preferred doing, working with charity clients on fundraising challenges. Stephen was a member of the Convention Committee for seven years and chaired it for three difficult years when money was short and the Convention was a key source of the Institute’s income. More recently, he chaired the working party and produced the draft Code on Practice on Direct Mail. Stephen speaks on platforms throughout Europe and the Americas, and writes extensively in trade journals. He is a Fellow of the Institute. |
|  Martin Price, Trustee
Dr Martin Price has been a Trustee of the Institute of Fundraising since 2005. He has been Director of Martin Price Associates since 1996, providing advice and training on fundraising and business management to charities, other voluntary bodies, community organisations and social enterprises, mainly in Wales. He worked for The Prince’s Trust, The Office of HRH the Prince of Wales, Business in the Community and Mencap. Prior to that, he was a senior manager at British Gas. He is Chair of the Board of a social firm and Vice Chair of Governors of a secondary school. Martin is a member of the Finance and Resources Committee and chaired the Institute of Fundraising Cymru for eight years. |
| Tanya Steele, Trustee Tanya Steele became a Trustee of the Institute of Fundraising in July 2009. Tanya joined Save the Children in 2004. As Director of Supporter Relations and Fundraising she is responsible for significantly growing both the organisation's income and levels of support to deliver dramatic change for children. Prior to Save the Children, Tanya spent over 10 years in the technology sector working through a range of boom and bust cycles. During this time she held a number of senior business, marketing and communications roles at BT, Siemens and Avaya. Tanya has a BSc in marketing from Lancaster University. |
| Jo Swinhoe, Trustee Jo Swinhoe became a Trustee of the Institute of Fundraising in 2009. A professional fundraiser for 15 years, Jo has been Director of Fundraising and Marketing with the Alzheimer's Society since 2005, having previously been with the NSPCC and charities local to her home in Sheffield. Jo is a member of the Convention Board for the Institute of Fundraising. She presents on fundraising, organisational strategy and management regularly both in the UK and overseas. Jo has a science degree from Aberdeen University, a post graduate degree from Sheffield Hallam University and is currently continuing her own professional development with the Chartered Directors Qualification from the Institute of Directors.
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