Association of Charitable Foundations – work on policy issues,
for example analysing and
preparing briefings on the Government's proposals for reforming charities’
legal framework,
looking at the long-term development of philanthropy
Beacon Fellowship Charitable Trust – devising procedures and chairing
assessment panels for this new
philanthropy award scheme, launched in Spring 2003
Brixton Town Centre Area Forum Board - facilitating their 'awayday' strategy review
CANS Trust -
Citizens Advice Notes Service
– strategic review and successfully finding
partner for
merger
Capacity Builders - Leading a team analysing local and regional infrastructure investment plans
Charities Aid Foundation – review of 50 local and regional 'maps' of the
voluntary sector; scoping for
CAF's survey of local authority funding; research and writing on
family foundations.
City University Cass Business School – preparing syllabus for diploma/MSc in charitable grant-making
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Clapham Park
Project - training Community Chest panel for this New Deal for
Communities
organisation
Community Fund and Big Lottery Fund – drafting conditions for grants with political content;
enquiring into a complaint about a disputed grant
Derbyshire Community Foundation – a review of their governance and the
potential for a membership
scheme
Directory of Social Change - reviews and articles for Funding for Change magazine
Electoral Reform Society – chairing a special commission on internal governance
Futurebuilders – Assistance in setting up database of consultants
Guidestar UK – comparing US and UK classification systems for organisations and grants
Home Office -
re-drafting consultation paper on Civil Renewal; designing forms and
assessing grant
applications for the Volunteer Recruitment Fund, reading
business plans for another programme
Institute of Fundraising - pro tem manager of Tax-effective Giving project in start-up phase
International Network on Strategic Philanthropy – paper on the principles
of accountability of
foundations
Khodorkovsky Foundation - a governance review of a private boarding school
(sometimes referred to as
an 'orphanage') in the outskirts of Moscow, sponsored by the jailed
Russian oil millionaire Mikhail
Khodorkovsky. The 'Lyceum' provides a caring environment for
'children of sorrow' from across
Russia. I was part of a team including a doctor and senior
staff from NCH Action for Children.
The
Foundation is a charity established in England.
National Family
and Parenting Institute - assisting NFPI in preparing major tender for
Government
contract
Princess Royal Trust for Carers - presentation on governance at Chairs' and Trustees' conference
Vodafone Foundations - working with David Carrington in devising a procedures manual
Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF)
Director and Chief Executive (1990-2002)
ACF is the UK’s key support organisation for independent grant-making
trusts and foundations.
It
promotes good practice, influences public
policy and the legal/regulatory framework, provides
public information
about foundations and helps new ones into being. I was its first chief
officer,
and built its membership to 300 organisations with aggregate
annual giving of £1.3bn. I wrote
many of its guides and briefings, edited its magazine
(Trust & Foundation News), was the main
lobbyist for
the Trustee Act 2000, and made ACF a key source of advice for grant-makers.
National Council for Voluntary Organisations
Co-ordinator of Local Development Agencies Fund (1986-1990)
I headed
an experimental national grant fund that channelled £3 million of
Government funds to
70 voluntary sector development agencies across
England.
Lambeth Umbrella Group
Co-ordinator (1978-85)
I was the
key staff member of a pioneering federation of 50 local advice centres in
the London
Borough of Lambeth - membership including Citizens Advice
Bureaux, law and neighbourhood
centres, and specialist centres serving
minority ethnic and other disadvantaged groups.
London Voluntary Service Council
Development Officer (1975-8)
Working with Councils for Voluntary Service (CVSs) in the London boroughs
National Council for Civil Liberties (now Liberty)
Administrative Assistant (1974-5)
Office admin, bookkeeping, advice, and campaign work
Current
McDougall Trust (Trustee and Chair of Investment Committee since 2002, Chair of Trust since 2005)
Fair Trials Abroad (Trustee from Spring 2003)
Past
Federation of
Independent Advice Centres - now called Advice UK (Founding member, Treasurer,
London Unit Chair,
1981-5)
Lambeth Inner City Consultative Group (Chair, 1984-5)
LASA Computer Development Unit (Board member, 1984-5)
Advice Services Alliance (Chair, 1985)
Lambeth Citizens Advice Bureaux Management Committee (Vice-Chair, 1986-1989)
Campaign for Inter-Country Adoption (Board member, 1990-7)
Family International (Board Member, 1993-7)
Conference of National Resource and Umbrella Organisations (Planning Chair, 1997-2000)
National Council for Voluntary Organisations (Trustee, 1996-2001)
I've worked in the voluntary and charitable
sector for 30 years including 19 as a chief officer,
4 running a grants
programme, and 12 as head of the UK's premier good practice organisation
in independent grant-making, the Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF).
I’ve built
up several organisations from their early days. Apart from ACF, I built the pioneering
group of
advice centres in Lambeth, and was one of the founder group of the
Federation of
Independent Advice Centres (now Advice UK).
I've worked with most of the third sector's key strategic organisations,
including the National
Council for Voluntary Organisations,
Charities Aid Foundation, Directory of Social Change,
Institute of
Fundraising, and the 'builders': Futurebuilders and Capacity Builders.
I’ve worked on issues at the government-voluntary-corporate sector interfaces.
As well as offering consultancy advice, I’ve been
both a lead staff member and a trustee - still am
- so I've had plenty
of time to practise what I preach.
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I know
charity and trustee law very well, and was one of the key lobbyists for
the Trustee Act
2000 - with work that was acknowledged by the Law
Commission and the School of Law (which
trains lawyers). I belong to
the Charity Law Association.
I’ve drafted standards and codes of conduct.
I have good international links, especially with foundations and their networks.
I’m experienced at public speaking, writing and editing.
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