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Alex Fearon, Email Marketing Consultant at Maybe Later
Chrissie Wright, Director of Training Services, DSC
Daniel Ferrell-Schweppenstedde, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, DSC
Debra Allcock Tyler, CEO, DSC
Debra Allcock Tyler, DSC Chief Executive
Lucy Martin, Marketing Intern, DSC
1823 Group
Abigail Hanley, Content Marketer, DSC
Abigail O'Loughlin & Jessica Threlfall, Researchers, DSC
Abigail O'Loughlin, Researcher, DSC
Abigail O'Loughlin, Researcher, Directory of Social Change
Adrian Burton, Business Management Consultant, Auditel
Alan Arnett, Innovation Partner, The Exploration Habit
Alan Barker, DSC Associate Consultant
Alan Clarkin, DSC Associate Trainer
Alan Lawrie, Author and DSC Collaborator
Alan Lawrie, Independent Management Consultant
Alastair Hardman, Sayer Vincent
Alex Aggidis, Supporter Recruitment Manager, Friends of the Earth
Amy Moore, Sustainability Manager, Marie Curie
Andrew O’Brien, Head of Policy and Engagement, Charity Finance Group
Andrew Purkis, DSC Policy Trustee
Andrew Purkis, DSC Trustee
Andrew Purkis, DSC Trustee, former CEO of Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, and former Charity Commissioner
Andrew Purkis, Trustee, DSC
Andrew Studd, Partner, Russell-Cooke
Annette Lewis, Director of Services, DSC
Annette Lewis, Director of Services, DSC and Cathy Shimmin, Senior Training Consultant DSC
Annette Lewis, Director of Training and Services, DSC
Annie Stone, Communication and Events Co-ordinator, Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire
Antonia Swinson, CEO, Ethical Property Foundation
Avis Johns, Co-Founder, Social Engine
Aviva
Aviva Insurance
Barry Moles, Managing Director, Skyline Business Services
Battersea Power Station Foundation
Ben Wittenberg, DSC
Ben Wittenberg, DSC Director of Development and Delivery
Ben Wittenberg, Director of Development and Delivery
Ben Wittenberg, Director of Development and Delivery, DSC
Ben Wittenberg, Director of Development, DSC
Bernard Ross, Director, =mc
Bernard Ross, Director, =mc Consulting
Bronwen Edwards, Executive Assistant, DSC
Bronwen Edwards, Executive Office Manager, DSC
By Jay Kennedy, Director of Policy and Research, DSC
Carla Whalen and Victoria Ehmann, Russell-Cooke
Carla Whalen, Senior Associate, Russell-Cooke
Carly Hobson, DSC Researcher
Caroline Taylor, Head of client strategy and partnerships, Fat Beehive
Caron Bradshaw OBE, CEO, Charity Finance Group
Caron Bradshaw, CEO, Charity Finance Group
Caron Bradshaw, OBE, CEO, Charity Finance Group
Cathy Shimmin, DSC Senior Training Consultant
Cathy Shimmin, Senior Training Consultant and Eileen Browne, Training Consultant
Cathy Shimmin, Senior Training Consultant, DSC
Charlie Hulme, Managing Director, DonorVoice
Charlotte Walshe, Head of Charity Partnerships, In Kind Direct
Chester Howarth, DSC Senior Researcher
Chester Howarth, Researcher, DSC
Chibuzo Okpala, Head of Finance, DSC
Chrissie Wright, Associate Trainer, DSC
Chrissie Wright, Associate, DSC
Chrissie Wright, DSC Associate Trainer
Chrissie Wright, Director of Training Services, DSC
Ciaran Price, DSC Policy Officer
Claire Routley & Richard Sved, Co-Authors of Fundraising Strategy
Claire Routley, Editor
Clara Wilcox, The Balance Collective
DSC
DSC In-House Services
DSC Research
DSC Research Team
DSC Wellbeing Team
Damian Kerlin, Creative Consultant
Daniel Ferrell-Schweppenstedde, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, DSC
Dave Carter (Head of Counter Fraud, Charity Fraud Solutions)
David Utley-Williams, Content Marketer, DSC
Dawn Austwick, Chief Executive, The National Lottery Community Fund
Dawn Newton, Morello Marketing
Dean Renshaw, Senior Researcher, DSC
Debra Allcock Tyler, CEO, DSC
Debra Allcock Tyler, CEO, DSC & Katie Docherty, Chief Executive Officer, The Chartered Institute of Fundraising
Debra Allcock Tyler, Chief Executive, DSC
Debra Allcock Tyler, DSC Chief Executive
Denise Lillya, DSC Research Manager
Denise Lillya, Research Manager
Directory of Social Change
Dr Matt Plen, Chief Executive, Masorti Judaism
Dr. Claire Routley, Editor
Eileen Browne, Training Consultant
Eileen Browne, Training Consultant, DSC
Elaine Alsop, Charity Accountant
Elizabeth Gray-King, DSC Associate
Elizabeth Gray-King, author of Practical Project Management for voluntary organisations
Ella Neale, Head of People, Home-Start UK
Emilia Privat, former DSC Research Volunteer
Emily Georghiou, Senior Programme Manager, Centre for Ageing Better
Emily Moseman, Marketing Intern, DSC
Emma Beeston, Philanthropy Advisor
Emma Bracegirdle, Founder, The Saltways
Emma Pears, Founder and CEO of SELFA
Farrah Kitabi, Senior Manager, Sayer Vincent
Fleur Holden, Director, Sayer Vincent
Fleur Holden, Partner, Sayer Vincent
Fran Swaine, Platypus Digital
Gabriella Poznansky, Digital Content and Communications Officer and Jessica Threlfall, Senior Researcher, DSC
Gabriella Poznansky, Digital Content and Communications Officer, DSC
Gabriella Poznansky, Digital Content and Communications Officer, DSC and Jessica Threlfall, Researcher, DSC
Gabriella Poznansky, Senior Digital Content and Communications Officer, DSC
Gail Nash, Marketing, DSC
Gemma Pettman, Freelance PR and fundraiser
Genny Jones , DSC Associate Trainer
George Knight, DSC Trainer
George Knight, Trainer, DSC
George Knight, Training Consultant, DSC
George Knight, Training Consultant. DSC
Georgie Wishart, Founder of Plant Based Digital
Giles Pegram CBE, ConsultantD
Gill Jolly, Associate Trainer DSC, Director of Achieve Consultants Ltd
Gill Taylor, HR Consultant
Gillian Barker, DSC Associate
Glyn Thomas, Freelance Digital Communications Consultant
Graeme Reekie, Director, Wren and Greyhound Limited
Harriet Lamb, Ashden CEO
Heather Brierley Staunton, DSC Senior Trainer and Performance Coach
Heather Brierley Staunton, Learning and Development Trainer and Coach
Helen Elliott, Partner, Sayer Vincent
Helen Olszowska, Managing Director, Seashell Collective
Huw Evans, CaSE Insurance
Ian Lawson, Director, Leadership Works
Ian Pembridge, Research Coordinator, DSC
Ian Pembridge, Senior Researcher, DSC
Isabel Walker, DSC Associate and Founder of Clearsay Communications
Jacqueline Williams
Jacqui Zanetti and Belinda Smith
James Brooke Turner, Investment Director at the Nuffield Foundation and co-founder of Yoke and Company
James Gadsby Peet, Director of Digital, William Joseph
James McCallum, Partner, Russell-Cooke Solicitors
Jane Galloway, Freelance Fundraiser & Trainer and Senior Lecturer at University of Chichester
Jane Klauber, Partner, Russell Cooke
Jay Kennedy, DSC Director of Policy and Research
Jay Kennedy, Director of Policy and Research
Jay Kennedy, Director of Policy and Research, DSC
Jay Kennedy, Director of Policy and Research, DSC and Gabriella Poznansky, Digital Content and Communications Officer, DSC
Jay Kennedy, Director of Policy and Research, DSC and Rachel Cain, Researcher, DSC
Jay Kennedy, Director of Policy and Research, Directory of Social Change
Jay Kennedy, Directory of Policy and Research, DSC, and Daniel Ferrell-Schweppenstedde, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, DSC
Jay Kennedy,D Director of Policy and Research, DSC
Jennifer Campbell, Charity copywriter, journalist and editor
Jenny Reynolds, DSC Researcher
Jes Bailey, Founder of Crowdfund 360
Jessica Silva, Career Consultant & Founder, Jessica Avlis
Jessica Threlfall, DSC Researcher
Jessica Threlfall, Researcher, DSC
Jessica Threlfall, Senior Researcher, DSC
Jo O'Sullivan, DSC Associate Trainer
Joanna Stuart, Institute for Volunteering Research
Joanne Simpson, Director, Independent Choices
Jodie Huyton, DSC Researcher
Joe Jenkins, Executive Director, The Children's Society
Joel Voysey, Fundraising & Income Generation Consultant
John Baguley, Chair, International Fundraising Consultancy
John Martin, Publisher, DSC
John Williams, Vice Chair of the Association of Chairs
Johnathan Orchard, Partner, Sayer Vincent
Jonathan Bird, Company Director, Delivered Social
Jonathan Orchard, Partner, Sayer Vincent
Jonathan Orchard, Partner, Sayer Vincent and Kate Sayer, Partner, Sayer Vincent
Jonathan de Bernhardt Wood, Director of Giving for the Church of England
José Blázquez, Marketing Executive, DSC
Judeline Nicholas, DSC Associate Trainer
Judith Miller, Partner, Sayer Vincent
Judith Turner, Researcher, DSC
Judith Turner, Senior Researcher, DSC and Mairéad Bailie, Researcher, DSC
Justin Martin, Head of Marketing, DSC
Justin Martin, Head of Marketing, DSC and Gabriella Poznansky, Digital Content & Communications Officer, DSC
Justin Martin, Marketing Manager, DSC
Kalli Jayasuriya, Researcher, DSC
Kallista Jayasuriya, Researcher, DSC
Kallista Jayasuriya, Researcher, DSC and Alexandra Taliadoros, Director of the Stef & Philips Foundation
Karen Ackerman, Director, Mediastories
Kate Lee, CEO, Alzheimer's Society
Kate Sayer, Partner, Sayer Vincent
Kathy Roddy, DSC Associate Trainer
Katie Duckworth, Coach, Trainer and Writer
Katie Rabone, Director, Fundraising Action Limited
Ken Burnett, Fundraising Consultant
Ken Burnett, author, lecturer and consultant on fundraising
Kim Freegard, Digital Content Officer, DSC
Kim van Niekerk, Fundraising coach, trainer and speaker
Kirsty Semple, Director, Semple Associates
Lauren Shaw, Researcher, DSC
Layla Moosavi Rivers, Associate Trainer, DSC
Layla Moosavi, Freelance Trainer and Consultant
Leesa Harwood, Business Owner, By the Waves Charity Consulting
Leesa Harwood, DSC Associate Trainer
Lianne Howard-Dace, Author
Liberty Accounts
Lisa Charalambous, Camden Council
Liz Schwarting, Marketing Intern, DSC
Louise McTigue
Lynn Cadman, Trainer, Getting on Board
Madeleine Sugden, Freelance charity content specialist
Mairéad Bailie, Researcher, DSC
Malcolm John, Founder, Action for Trustee Racial Diversity
Malcolm John, author of From Here to Diversity - a practical guide to recruiting Black and Asian charity trustees
Manuel Fajardo, Co-founder and Executive Director, Opera Story
Mark A’Bear
Mark Burnett, Founder and CEO, Hope & May Limited
Mark Butcher, Principal at Better Bid Writing, Director MBA
Matt Chittock, Copywriter and journalist
Matt Haworth, Co-founder, Reason Digital
Matt Kurton, Charity Copywriter
Matthew Davis, DSC Associate Trainer and Co-Director, m2, formerly WWF-UK’s Marine and Climate Change Campaign Director
Matthew Davis, DSC Associate Trainer and Director of 3C Consult Create Communicate
Meg Abdy, Development Director, Legacy Foresight
Megan Oliver. Marketing Manager, Rosterfy
Menai Owen-Jones LLB Dip IoD FRSA, Chief Executive Officer, The Pituitary Foundation
Michaela Clark, DSC Trustee
Michelle Benson, Founder of Culture of Philanthropy
Mike Bartlett, Senior Consultant, Money Tree Fundraising
Mike Hudson
Mike Hudson, CaSE Insurance
Mike Locke
Mike Locke, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Philanthropy at University of Kent
Mike Phillips, DSC Associate Trainer
Mike Phillips, DSC Trainer, Facilitator, Consultant and Coach
Miranda Lewis, Co-Director, M2 Consultants
Mo Kanjilal, Co-Creator, Watch This Sp_ce
Natasha Roe, Co-founder of Red Pencil
Natasha Roe, Director, Red Pencil
Neela Jane Stansfield, Associate, Fundraising Training Ltd
Neela Jane Stansfield, Fundraising Consultant, Fundraising Training
Neil Johnstone, DSC Associate Trainer
Nick Day, Associate Trainer, DSC
Nick Day, DSC Associate Trainer
Nick Day, Managing Director, MAILMAX LIMITED
Nicky Lappin, Head of Research and Information, The Tudor Trust
Nina Botting Herbst, author of The Complete Fundraising Handbook
Non Frenguelli, Researcher, DSC
Paddy Vipond, Fundraising Officer, Renewable World
Panikos Efthimiou, DSC Associate
Paul Brollo, Associate Trainer, DSC
Paul Brollo, DSC Associate Trainer
Paul Ticher, Associate Trainer, DSC
Paul Ticher, Author/Data Protection Expert
Paula Hamilton, Trustee, Abortion Support Network
Penny Wilson, CEO, Getting on Board
Pete Moorey, Interim Director of Programmes
Peter Wright, Head of Marketing and Communications, Thirtyone:eight
Phyllida Perrett, DSC Trustee
Phyllida Perrett, Trustee, DSC
Print Social
Priya Warner, Head of Policy, Fundraising Regulator
Rachel Cain, DSC Researcher
Rachel Cain, Senior Researcher, DSC
Rachel Stephenson Sheff, Philanthropy & Fundraising Advisor, Lightful
Rebecca Eddington, DSC Researcher
Rebecca Eddington, Researcher, DSC
Research Team, DSC
Rhea Manuel, DSC Content Marketer
Rhiannon Doherty, Research Co-ordinator, DSC
Rhiannon Doherty, Senior Researcher, DSC
Richard Lee, DSC Former Director of Marketing
Richard Powley, Head of Safeguarding, Age UK
Richard Radcliffe, Founder, Radcliffe Consulting
Richard Sved, Director of 3rd Sector Mission Control
Richard Sved, Director of 3rd Sector Mission Control and co-author Fundraising Strategy
Rick Lynch, Management Consultant and author
Rob Foster, Senior Consultant, Red Ochre
Rob Gethen Smith, Partner, Adapta Consulting
Rob Jackson, DSC Associate Trainer
Rob Jackson, Director, Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd
Robert Bullard, DSC Associate and Copywriter
Robert Foster, Associate Trainer, DSC
Ross Hardy, DSC Researcher
Ross Hardy, Researcher, DSC
Ross Palmer, Senior Tax Manager, Sayer Vincent
Ruth Smyth, Planning and Insight Director, BoldLight
Samuel Butler, Director of Fundraising and Communications, Tibet Relief Fund
Sandy Leong, DSC Associate Trainer
Sarah Browning, Internal Communications Specialist, Browning York
Sarah Covington, National Partnerships & Development Manager, Zurich Community Trust
Sarah Myers, Author and Editorial Consultant
Sayer Vincent, Charity Accountants
Scott Mason, Researcher, DSC
Scrutton Bland, Financial Conduct Authority
Shak Rafiq, Associate Director for Communications and Involvement, Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership
Sheridan Maguire, Author of Core Coaching
Shireen Mustafa Johal, Funds Online Manager, DSC
Simon Hopkins, Director of Finance and Corporate Resources, Versus Arthritis
Simon Scriver, ChangeFundraising
Stephen Cook, Author of What Have Charities Ever Done For Us?
Stephen Cook, Co-Author of What Have Charities Ever Done For Us?
Stephen Pidgeon, Author, fundraising consultant, International Speaker
Stephen Service, Policy Manager, Fundraising Regulator
Stephenie Linham, DSC Associate Trainer
Steve Prince, DSC Associate Trainer
Steve Vaid, CEO, Money Advice Trust
Stuart Cole, Research Development Manager, DSC
Stuart Cole, Research and Development Manager, DSC
Sue Tibballs, Cheif Executive, Sheila McKechnie Foundation
Susan Lambiase, Account Manager, upriseUP
Suzie Rees, Fundraising Manager, East African Playgrounds
Tania Mason, Author, What Have Charities Ever Done For Us
Tania Mason, author of What Have Charities Ever Done For Us
Tanya Mackay, Head of Research and Involvement, McPin and Clare Walsby, Senior Operations Manager, McPin
Tereza Litsa,freelance marketing strategist and social media trainer
Tesse Akpeki, DSC Associate trainer
Tesse Akpeki, DSC Assosciate
The team at Forces in Mind Trust
Thomas McNeil, Solicitor, BWB
Tim Boyes-Watson Global Director Alliances and Advocacy, Humentum
Tom Traynor, Head of Research, DSC
Tom Traynor, Head of Research, Directory of Social Change
Trudy Hayden, DSC Associate trainer
Uday Thakkar, DSC Associate
Uday Thakkar, DSC Assosciate
Uday Thakkar, Red Ochre and DSC Associate trainer
Valerie Morton, Author, Fundraiser and Consultant
Veronica Bamford-Deane, Managing Director, Work for Good
Vic Turnbull, Founder MIC media, MIC’s Podcast Club & Pods Up North
Vickie Wood, Head of Individual Giving, Send a Cow
Victoria Ehmann, Associate, Russell-Cooke
William Butler, Chair of Trustees, DSC
William Butler, DSC Chair of Trustees
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21 August, 2018
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