Anna Russell Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Working with the Head of Fundraising and the finance team to set departmental budget, voluntary income forecast, and monitor income.• Building long-term, sustainable partnerships and increasing the value of St Giles Trust’s funding portfolio working with; high net worth individuals, trusts and foundations (including institutional and family charitable trusts and international philanthropic organisations) and corporate donors.• Oversight of trusts and foundations, National Lottery Community Fund grants, income management systems, individuals and challenge events.• Considerable experience with The National Lottery Community Fund, both in securing six-figure grants and managing multiple active grants.• Managing and motivating a small team to achieve fundraising targets.

Camberwell, London

• Agreed departmental expenditure and forecast voluntary income for 2018/19.• Coordinated and managed the fundraising team to raise income from trusts and foundations, corporate partnerships, major donors, individuals and challenge events.• Recruited, and line managed a team of senior fundraisers and officers across the various fundraising functions during a time of transition.• Built sustainable relationships with high profile and high net worth individuals, charitable trusts and foundations, corporates and The National Lottery Community Fund.• Working closely with other departments as part of the Senior Management Team.

London Bridge

As Senior Trust and Grants Manager, I account manage high-value trust relationships, initiating, researching and applying for significant new grants. I oversee a small team of fundraisers consisting of the Trusts Manager (and oversight of the Fundraising Assistant).I manage a portfolio of high-value grant makers (including Comic Relief, High Net Worth Individuals and the Big Lottery Fund) ensuring all grant funding terms and conditions are met.

• Managing a small group of global corporate partners, who fund multiple UK FareShare locations; being a key representative of the charity to both funders and external charity partners. Using strong stewardship skills to manage complex funding agreements and grow these high-value partnerships.• Winning six-figure grants and writing strategically focused bids successes include Comic Relief, Caterpillar, Department for Communities and Local Government, London Waste & Recycling Board and V Match Fund.• A strong background in grant management and devising baseline, Logic and Evaluation Models measuring project outcomes for funders such as Nesta, Comic Relief, and the Scottish Government.• Supporting our regional partners and coordinating funding approaches to national funders across the network employing good networking and communication skills.• Government funding: developing strategically focused bids to target large developmental opportunities through statutory grants including Department for Communities and Local Government, London Waste and Recycling Board and V Match Fund.• Developing strong relationships with a range of statutory and voluntary sector funders and ensuring consistent and high-quality reporting and grant management.

Bermondsey, London

• Winning six figure grants from a range of Government departments.• Working on developmental opportunities; writing relevant supporting documents such as Project and Business Plans, implementation plans and, working closely with senior staff, writing project budgets.• Devising effective grant management systems to support colleagues to achieve agreed targets and monitoring project performance.• Developing strong relationships with a range of Trusts and foundations, government, and voluntary sector funders and ensuring consistent and high quality reporting and grant management.• I grew the Trusts and Grants team to include a grants officer and managing the team to achieve agreed income targets.

London, United Kingdom

Raising income from Trusts and Foundations, and working on bids for the European Social Fund and Learning Skills Council.Successfully securing grants from The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the London Housing Foundation.

Barking And Dagenham

• PA to the Chief Executive, arranging Trustee meetings and taking minutes.• Accounts and reconciliation on Sage Accounting including petty cash.• Volunteer recruitment from writing adverts to booking and arranging training sessions.• Assisting with contracts from Local Authorities for Key workers in schools.