Sacha Tremain - Chair
Sacha is the Major Donor Research Manager for The National Trust, based in Swindon. Prior to this she worked for the Institute of Physics Publishing as a Senior Publishing Administrator in the journals department and as a Helpline Worker for the National Domestic Violence Helpline, Women's Aid, before joining The National Trust in January 2006.
Katie Davis - Treasurer
Katie Davis is the Development Manager (Research) at the University of Liverpool where she has been for the past three years. Prior to this she worked as a Fundraiser for the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Clare Baker
Clare joined the voluntary sector in 2007 having previously worked in the public sector as records manager. She has corporate and major donor fundraising experience and is currently Major Gifts Research and Information Manager for Age Concern and Help the Aged. Her interests in research are in donor management and provision of a framework for professional development for fundraising researchers.
Steve Barwell
Steve is the Prospect Research Manager at Nottingham Trent University. Steve is responsible for Development Services; a role which includes prospect research and prospect tracking. He previously held similar positions for the University of Hull and for De Montfort University. He has also worked in development roles for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Harrogate International Festival.
Elly Bohme
Elly is the founder director of the prospect research consultancy Search & Prosper. She has worked in the field of prospect research for over 13 years, initially at the University of Cambridge, and has provided research and intelligence on potential sources of funds to a broad range of education, charity and cultural organisations.
Corinna Darker
Corrie Darker is development officer for trusts and research at The Healing Foundation.
Rebecca Funnell
Rebecca is the founder director of the prospect research consultancy Telos Research and former Research Director at Factary, the prospect research consultancy. She has 10 years of experience in fundraising research and has worked with both local and national not-for-profit organisations on a wide variety of projects. She is also a member of the Wales Council for Voluntary Action.
Matthew Ide
Matt is the Research & Resource Manager for THINK Intelligence, the research arm of THINK Consulting Solutions. Matt previously ran his own prospect research consultancy, Hands on Research, which he set up in 2007, having worked as a prospect researcher in the charity sector for eight years. Matt’s passion for knowledge sharing and information has seen him launch several free websites, but he is best known for creating the first global fundraising resources website THINK Resource (formerly fResource), which he now manages on behalf of THINK Consulting.
Robin Jones
Robin is the founder director of Milestone Research and former Managing Director of Factary, the prospect research consultancy. He has over 10 years experience in research and training, is a regular speaker in the UK and overseas. He is also a member of APRA, the representative body for prospect researchers in America, and the previous chair of Researchers in Fundraising.
Rhoda McIntire
Rhoda is the Development Executive, Research and Stewardship at Edinburgh's Napier University. She is also the committee representative of RiF Scotland.
Hannah Partington
Hannah is Research Manager at the British Film Institute. Before this she was Research Manager at Factary, the prospect research consultancy, which she joined in 2004 after graduating from Oxford. She has worked with a wide variety of non-profit organisations from small, local charities to national and international NGOs, as well as a number of UK schools and universities.
Kerry Rock
Kerry is Director of Research at Action Planning. She has 13 years of experience of research, most recently running her own consultancy specialising in providing market and social research services to leading clients within the research industry. She has written hundreds of research reports and presented to Boards, Executive teams, national and international conferences and seminars.
George Overton
George is the Prospect Researcher for the Motor Neurone Disease Association. He has worked in the voluntary sector since 1996, including grantmaking for what is now the Big Lottery Fund, and fundraising from individuals and charitable trusts at Home-Start UK, Methodist Homes for the Aged, and Leicester Hospitals Charity. Since 2000 prospect research has increasingly become his main passion at work.
Julie Baker
Julie is the Prospect Researcher for the Natural History Museum. She organised the Estimating Wealth Seminar in 2009 and has recently joined the RiF committee.
