• Currently a youth mentor, data trainer and parent carer.• Previously a charity manager, trustee and trainer with key skills in communications and project development.• Other experience includes economic development projects and financial planning sector.• I have worked with a diverse range of people: children and young people, older people, volunteers, trustee boards, professionals in education and social care, businesses.Key Skills and AchievementsFinancial admin• Established good rapport with clients and prospects• Successful switchover from legacy software to Salesforce client management system• Good problem-solver, e.g. figuring out how to make the system fit the circumstancesTraining• Ran various fundraising seminars around England and Wales for a network of 500 local charities between 2001 and 2005.• Ran workshops at various conferences including HERD 1998 and 1999 and Citizens Advice AGM 2001-2005Communications and PR• Led the team co-ordinating a charity luncheon in the presence of HRH The Princess Royal and Baroness Pitkeathley of the BIG Lottery Fund.• Developed Skillshare International’s first annual fundraising event with celebrity backing from Rosemary Conley.• Enlisted the support of Brasserie Blanc for Age UK B&NES launch event attended by Mary Berry.Fundraising and marketing• Enlisted Sir Trevor McDonald’s backing for a public appeal for donations to a development project. Secured the long term future of the project including £30k+ from a major private company.• Raised upwards of £2 million in successful grant applications, partnership bids and marketing activities including DM.• Provided consultancy to a network of 500 local charities resulting in upwards of £1 million in funding from the Lottery, grantmaking trusts, companies and community fundraising.