Paul Gauntlett Bem Email & Phone Number

Colne, Gb

Pendle, Lancashire

Pendle New Neighbours is a voluntary organisation that was set up to support refugees and asylum seekers living in the area. We aim to ensure that every one of our ‘new neighbours’ feels safe and secure in our neighbourhood, and inasmuch as is possible, happy and valued at this difficult time in their lives.Our support may be practical, advisory, emotional, and spiritual as appropriate, and encouraging them wherever possible to be a part of our community during their time with us.

Pendle

Pendle Dementia Action Alliance is a group of organisations and individuals which work together to make Pendle more dementia friendly. We achieve this by:• raising awareness of dementia throughout Pendle• providing access to further information and understanding of dementia• inspiring and coordinating projects, programmes and initiatives for people affected by dementia and their carers.

Lancashire

Watford, United Kingdom

Falkirk

Responsible for fundraising, campaigning, communications and PR for the charity.

Slough, United Kingdom

Rotherham, United Kingdom

My role included:Developing a strategy and programme against which the Trust could fundraise, and then raising funds for projects in which the Trust invests. The Prime Minister launched the programme at No.10 • Identifying and building strategic partnerships with statutory and voluntary agencies, and private sector, to ensure that the Youth Programme, which works with ‘hard to reach’ vulnerable young people living in some of the most deprived areas of Britain.• Reviewing the vision, mission and core values prior to re-branding.• Advising the Board of Trustees on the corporate strategy, as a member of the Directorate, and setting objectives to achieve the strategy• Preparing annual operational plans and budgets• Communicating with the Trust’s external stakeholders, including the Westminster Government, Scottish Executive and Welsh Assembly; the media; grant beneficiaries; and the members of the communities.• Managing a team of seven staff.

Oxford, United Kingdom

I was engaged on assignments as the lead consultant, carrying out feasibility studies for fundraising campaigns, strategic planning, analysing business plans, and working with not-for-profit organisations in implementing their plans.

Key achievements included:• preparation of long and short term strategies, which included the re-branding and re-positioning of the charity. An award winning marketing campaign led a successful effort to reach young men – the sector in which the suicide rate was climbing• Preparation of annual budgets to meet agreed income target of £3.5m by direct marketing, legacies, corporate and major donors, and events, with expenditure budget of £1.9m for marketing and fundraising• Restructuring of team and managing the activities and performance of staff (15) to achieve departmental objectives• Representing the department internally and promoting the organisation nationally* Directing the development of The Samaritans Enterprises and the overall trading strategy

Leeds, United Kingdom

Key achievements included:• Ensuring children were protected from significant harm through direct services provided by the NSPCC• Maximising fundraising to c£4m • Establishing external relationships, networks and partnerships with statutory, and other voluntary organisations that increase the effectiveness of the work in child protection• Improving the effectiveness of the managers and staff (70 employees) after re-structuring team of 5 senior managers• Maintaining and developing the positive profile of the charity• Contributing to the overall effectiveness of the charity through contribution to national strategy and policy development

Harrogate, United Kingdom

This charity was established in 1989 to raise funds for the children’s units in 20 hospitals in the Yorkshire Regional Health Authority region, principally concerned with providing urgently needed clinical equipment, funding paediatric research, and helping parents/guardians who fell into hardship as a result of their child’s illness.My prime responsibility was to promote the Trust, and to raise the profile in the Yorkshire community. I launched a corporate appeal, a trust appeal and an appeal to the general public, raising c£2m. I was responsible for the Trust’s public relations and publicity, co-ordinating the activities of numerous fundraising committees throughout Yorkshire, and for liaising with the region’s hospitals to identify their key needs and establishing priorities for funding.

Bachelor'S Degree, History Of Art

Ba, Business Studies

Law