Simon Marsh Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

Serving staff, young members, and volunteers of Future Youth Zone as a member of their Board

Barking, England, United Kingdom

Serving OnSide Youth Zones in their mission to give young people somewhere to go, something to do and someone to talk to. My role, and that of my team, is to develop effective partnerships with grant makers to support OnSide’s ambition of providing 35 Youth Zones to 150,000 young people by 2035.

Holbrook, Suffolk, United Kingdom

My team served the distinct mission of ‘improving navigation’ by establishing and leading all aspects of Development at the Royal Hospital School. This included fundraising for life changing bursaries, the hallmark of the School. Under my leadership we raised over £1 million and engaged thousands of inspirational alumni for which we were shortlisted for.

London, United Kingdom

I led a team dedicated to collaboration with CRUK major centres and academic partners in order to accelerate major and principal gift fundraising and foundation relations. During this time I successfully negotiated the fundraising resourcing and relationship between CRUK and the Francis Crick Institute.

During this period I led on a number of principal gift negotiations including the £30 million Paul Marshall Building and Institute for Philanthropy and Entrepreneurship. I also worked directly with Director and Chair of LSE to establish an institutional campaign strategy and budget. During this period I received coaching from Tim Portwood, who led and.

London Area, United Kingdom

This role enabled me to enhance LSE’s norms and practices around fundraising and its case for support including pricing of gifts and creating the ‘Realising Potential’ ‘Place and Purpose’ ‘Thought Leadership’ ‘Research Excellence’ frameworks that are still in use today. During this period I also continued to successfully secure major and principal gifts.

London, United Kingdom

During this period I developed relationships with high value national and international grant makers and raised over £50 million. More importantly these relationships transformed young lives, improved the effectiveness of institutions, and contributed towards research on some of the words most pressing issues including social exclusion, human rights.

London, United Kingdom

This entry level role gave me experience of capital and institutional campaigns and communications and fundraising in an academic setting. During this period I attended the CASE Spring Institute which gave me the necessary grounding for my career at LSE and beyond.

In this role I developed my skills and experience around grant making trusts including Livery Companies. I secured a number of high value grants to support the running costs, policy and advocacy, and effectiveness of Centrepoint hostels.

London, United Kingdom

This was my first professional role out of University. Working under a very supportive and charismatic Director I was able to develop a skill set around charity administration, committee coordination, and medical research fundraising. This was an excellent grounding for the roles that would follow.

Bachelor’S Degree, Ancient History

Diploma In Management, Management