David Rootham Email & Phone Number

Huntingdonshire

My great passion is to make truly great websites that charities, small business and churches find easy to use. Working from home allows me to charge a really competitive rate and I am always pushing myself to become better and try more ambious projects and styles. I do not use traditional templates so every site is individually designed both in terms of features, colours and at the same time trying to establish the feel of the business. I usually spend a good hour or so with clients initially to establish their needs build their site from there. Whilst I do not normally tell people what to say on their site, I am happy to advise them.Effective marketing is essential to small business, and having worked in an advice role in financial services and also as a fundraiser in a charity I am perfectly placed to help people with these inital steps. Working with charities and volunteer trustee for over 20 years provides unique insight into governance, objectives of websites and maintenance issues so this also has become very useful when talking to clients in this sector. .

Cambridge

I am responsible for arranging Legacy meetings, talking to potential Legators, maintaining a register of supporters who have expressed an interest in making a Legacy as well as those who have confirmed. Achieving a high annual Legacy target by promoting legacy giving at every opportunity as well as dealing with Solicitors, Executors, "In memory giving."to ensure swift receipt of payments. Monitoring on going legacies, carry out analysis and scripting potential mail shots. I also support the High Donor team and work with the High Donor Team Leader to increase financial support amoungst our supporters.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Responsible for the major relationships team which includes the Senior Major Donor Fundraiser and the Senior Trust and Foundations Officer, guiding and motivating them to achieve greater success in delivering high quality support and care to high net worth individuals and corporations. To ensure that both written and personal communication with individuals, trusts and corporates is effective and appropriate providing compelling proposals to achieve the demanding targets of the team. To ensure that the communication is respectful, informative about people living with disabilites in the developing world painting a realistic picture of their situations and how they, our supporters and trusts can make a difference. I am also responsible for marketing lagacies to all supporters and ensuring that legacy administration takes place in a timely fashion negotiating and influencing solicitors and executors to obtain the benefit our supporter had intended.

Payment Administration.

I originally wrote the constitution to obtain charitable status as well as many of the financail controls. I have redesigned the website which I regularly up date and have advised on many financial matters.

Manage the UK office including;-- Key KPIs being a budget holder for undesiginated fund- Treasury management and support staff and all key administrative relationships including bankers, premises, non volunteer insurances, IT provider, database, UK health and safety and charity and corporate affairs.

I have held a variety of customer service roles from audit, recruitment, Branch Coach, Branch Manager and Financial Consultant. I was regularly in the top 30 Financial Consutlants in the country and won a number of awards for performance.

Education record

Maths & Chemistry