Mark Atkinson Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

VCSchange's mission is to support the creation of strong and vibrant voluntary and community sector organisations through well thought through, carefully planned and expertly executed change.VCSchange delivers breakthrough solutions in the areas of strategy, organisational development, income generation and people.www.twitter.com/VCSchangewww.vcschange.wordpress.comClients include:- UK Health Forum- Living Streets- Victim Support- Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust- Citizens UK- Every Mind Matters- KIDS- William Morris Gallery- Society for Experimental Biology- Frontline Matters- Woking & Sam Beare Hospices- NCT- Signed 4 Life- Baby Cafe Charitable Trust- Midwives Information & Resource Service (MIDIRS)- AVP London- NCT Trading Ltd- HCC International Insurance“Living Streets commissioned VCSchange to undertake a strategic piece of work to inform our transition to a regional structure. The consultant worked closely with us over a period of 2 months. He quickly gained an excellent understanding of the organisation and the environment that we operate in, and produced a comprehensive feasibility report and a number of detailed regional income plans. These plans are proving to be invaluable as we develop our capacity to generate income at a regional level.” Richard Muncaster, Development Director, Living Streets"VCSchange supported our small enthusiastic team to deliver an important gala event, completed a fundraising audit and worked with us to submit a successful tender for significant funding. VCSchange was able to unite and coordinate teams across the country to produce a cohesive application. VCSchange’s consultant fitted instantly in to the team offering them valuable advice and support. VCSchange continues to work for KIDS on a consultancy basis supporting some of our regional teams with tender writing and I have no hesitation in recommending it to others." Caroline Stevens, Chief Executive, KIDS

London, United Kingdom

Strategy development, UK Aid Match communications planning and implementation. Team management across all fundraising disciplines.In developed countries 80% of children with cancer will survive. In the developing world the picture is very different, where survival rates can be as low as 10%. Thousands of children are dying unnecessarily when they could be treated or cured.

London, United Kingdom

UK and International process development to drive growth in restricted funding across all areas of high value giving.

London, United Kingdom

Affinity partnerships present a great opportunity for companies to secure new customers whilst giving charities a sustainable source of income to support their causes. AML has a highly ethical approach to partnership development coupled with the commercial acumen to identify the right partners and products that will generate the best return on investment. Visit www.affinitymarketing.co.uk to find out more about our work.

London, United Kingdom

Various high value projects undertaken including feasibility study for new service development, directing major donor event, tender writing, mentoring and staff training. Following a period as Interim Director, I continued to work with KIDS on an ad hoc basis through VCSchange, providing consultancy support on specific projects.

Signed 4 Life is the UK's only online celebrity fundraising platform which brings together sports stars and celebrities to raise large sums of money for charitable activity. Find out more at www.signed4life.com

Development of new income generation strategy; review of departmental structure and provision of individual and team coaching.

“Mark Atkinson worked with Baby Café during the period of our merger and subsequently in the development of our 3 Year Strategy. We found Mark’s approach to be a breath of fresh air in the way that he addressed our strategic challenges and we noted how well he was able to help us in defining our market drivers, assess the market opportunity and identify the operational challenges that we would need to address in achieving our business objectives. We would have no hesitation in recommending Mark to work with leadership teams in helping them to navigate through similar challenges.” Bernadine Burnell, Chair, The Baby Cafe Charitable Trust

London, United Kingdom

Held 3 Director roles at NCT:1) SERVICES DIRECTOR - (1 year)• Directed UK-wide portfolio of services commissioned by local authorities and available for individual purchase through a department of 82 multidisciplinary personnel and 1,056 subcontractors. • Responsible for volunteer-led service delivery and £2.3million community fundraising programme delivered by 4,572 registered volunteers through a network of 314 branches across the UK• Developed specification and project managed set up of Bristol-based Enquiries Unit to handle in-bound and out-bound telephone and email activity from prospective and existing customers, volunteers, beneficiaries, and members2) MD NCT TRADING LTD - (2 years - held contemporaneously with post below)• Directed £2.1million charity trading company composed of 3 e-commerce businesses and a commercial fundraising division with 14 personnel.• Successfully repositioned NCT as an agency for companies to reach the parent target market in a cost effective manner.• Winner of 2010 Third Sector Business Charity Award for the best collaboration between a charity and a company for mutual benefit as a result of £1.2million partnership with Unilever. 3) VOLUNTARY INCOME DIRECTOR (4.5 years)• Directed income generation department with 19 personnel working across grants, commercial fundraising (division of charity trading company), community fundraising, events, membership and individual giving.• Achieved growth in voluntary income from £4.9million per annum to £7.4million.

Directed Fundraising Unit with emphasis on major bid development and tendering for public sector contracts

London, United Kingdom

Management consultancy, strategy development; fundraising feasibility studies; fundraising training, partnership brokerage and bid writing.

Responsible for project development and fundraising on capital projects, advocacy programmes and a national heritage initiative

London, United Kingdom

Capital appeals and regional fundraising management

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Business planning support for young entrepreneurs and offender outreach

Postgrad Diploma In Legal Practice, Law

LPC - Commendation Law Degree - 2.1 LLB (Hons)

A Levels & Gcse'S