George Ruston Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

I am working with three great charities at the moment:Funding For All in Kent to provide fundraising support for charities and other community groups via webinars and mentoring;Corbenic Camphill Community in central Scotland to help them raise funds for their five-year capital programme. Corbenic provide residential and day services for adults with complex.

I supported the Corbenic Camphill Community with fundraising advice and bidwriting, principally for two capital projects. Corbenic is a charity that provides residential and day services for adults with complex and severe social, emotional and intellectual learning disabilities in central Scotland. (I have also undertaken a scoping exercise for the Dunkeld.

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Since embarking on a freelance career in 2009, I have supported over fifty charities on either a paid or pro-bono basis. This includes operational and strategic management, planning and fundraising as well as mentoring, coaching and training.

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Development Adviser (4 days per month) for The Salvesen Mindroom Centre (an Edinburgh based charity supporting parents who have children with learning difficulties). I started in December 2012 with a brief to implement and maintain a Trust fundraising system. I then pulled together their strategic and operational plans in 2014. From October 2014 to April.

London, United Kingdom

Managing the Major Partnerships Team covered four fundraising disciplines: Corporate, Legacies, Major Donors; and grant-making Trusts/Statutory activity.

I was responsible for updating and introducing systems for the charity, mentoring and assisting with planning. Plus Fundraising and Financial monitoring. I introduced fundraising and cash flow/budget management systems.

Interim CEO contract (Nov 2009 – April 2010) (JusB is a local youth charity)Appointment replaced a founder-CEO. Duties involved stabilising the charity; introducing financial and fundraising systems; general management, PR and representation; assessing current activity and structure; and recommending future action in a period of financial uncertainty. Also.

Governance; Policy work; Representation; Operational Management; Strategic and Operational Planning; Initiation and Management of Change; Effective Co-ordination; Media, Fundraising and Marketing activity; Partnership work. For example:-Taking the UK Band of Hope Union (founded 1855) and transforming it into the modern Hope UK, delivering drug education.

including Chair for Unit Management Team and District Planning Team (Mental Handicap). Operational Management; Strategic and Operational Planning; Management of Change; Effective Co-ordination. For example:Managing the restructuring of Islington's Community Health Services; joint Learning Disability services; and two long-stay hospitals for the Elderly.

Msc, Voluntary Sector Organisation

Bsc, Geography