International Fundraising Consultancy Group

Christina began her media and public relations career within the charity sector over 20 years ago. She learnt her trade at Amnesty International, Prisoners Abroad, and then finally children’s charity Plan International, before embarking on a freelance media and communication career.

This freelance media career has seen Christina fulfilling long-term contracts with organisations such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Rainforest Alliance.

Whilst undertaking these long-term contracts, Christina has also worked on fixed-term contracts. This has included spending a year managing the media around the closure of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, and managing international media relations for the Queen’s Young Leaders programme twice a year for four years, which culminates each summer with an awards ceremony at Buckingham Palace with Her Majesty The Queen.

Media Management
Christina specialises in developing and delivering media strategies. This includes writing press releases and supporting media materials, managing social media – including implementing campaigns via Twitter, selling-in stories to journalists, organising media interviews and delivering training on how to handle the media. With an extensive national and international contacts list, she regularly places stories in media outlets including BBC Radio Four’s Woman’s Hour, The Guardian, Huffington Post and many more.

Christina has extensive experience in organising and taking journalists, film crews and photographers on media trips to Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America as part of global media campaigns.

Event Management
Christina has extensive event management experience including fundraising events, campaign launches and media events. Career highlights include managing a press conference with Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the UN Headquarters in New York, and managing the media on a press conference in Paris with George Clooney.

Editorial Experience
Christina has written and ghost-written many articles for the organisations she has worked with, including opinion pieces and feature articles. She also writes regular articles for clients’ blogs and manages their social media accounts. Christina has also contributed to the renowned travel guide The Travellers Handbook.

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Dom is a specialist in corporate fundraising with experience across all areas of private sector engagement.

His skills include new business and pipeline development, employee engagement, sponsorships, long term strategic partnerships, corporate foundation grants, charity of the year, cause related marketing partnerships and developing growth strategies.

Dom started his career establishing corporate partnerships as an income stream at Restless Development. As head of corporate partnerships globally, he designed and executed a strategy that saw income from corporate partnerships grow from virtually nothing to a team raising over £500k per year. During his time at Restless Development, Dom specialised in partnerships bringing in vital unrestricted income to the organisation.

Dom has held a number of other corporate fundraising roles and consultancies for national charities and international development NGO’s including ActionAid, Into University, Young People Cornwall and Tanzanian Children’s Fund.

Dominic was nominated for the Institute of Fundraising Rising Star award in 2019, and as part of the Team of the Year at Action Aid in 2021.

Jonathan has extensive supporter insight and fundraising & marketing experience from20 years in the sector.

Jonathan has worked with the likes of Save the Children, VSO, St Paul’s Cathedral and The Royal Horticultural Society he is a published author and a leading consultant in the fundraising and insight fundraising area.

He is a data and research driven fundraiser, using data analysis and models to build predictive models to find the best prospects for charities. His mixture of data analysis and 1-2-1 supporter insight techniques have ensured that his charity clients are able to produce the very best fundraising & marketing.

He runs an insight team of market researchers, data strategists and creative thinkers, turning insight into sector leading creative and new products.

He has held head of fundraising, legacy, individual giving, market research, innovation and product development positions for some of the UK’s largest charities, including Save the Children and Action for Children.

He is a regular on the UK speaker circuit and a keen blogger.

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Mike is a fundraising consultant with wide experience in the charity sector as a fundraiser, consultant, trustee and senior manager. He specialises in providing strategic consultancy and fundraising support to smaller charities and social enterprises.

He has worked with charities like The Camden Society, Copenhagen Youth Project and The Winch to develop fundraising strategies, and provided broader strategic support to charities including LEAP Norwich and The PKD Charity. He also delivers regular fundraising strategy training in partnership with the School for Social Entrepreneurs and the Small Charities Coalition.

He was previously Fundraising Manager for Link Community Development, overseeing a thriving fundraising portfolio raising £600,000 per year.

He is an also an experienced trainer and speaker, an Ambassador for Good News Shared and a regular fundraising blogger for JustGiving, Eventbrite and Localgiving.

Mike works with senior management teams and Boards of Trustees to help them make better decisions and take the pain out of strategic planning. He’s passionate about driving innovation, developing new income streams and putting his strategic mindset and entrepreneurial flair to good use.

Norma has 20 years’ experience of leading high-profile communication campaigns for human rights and development, including as Communications Director for Plan International and Amnesty International UK.

As part of Plan’s International Management Team she led operations in 45 developing countries. She has also advised the WHO on its Roll Back Malaria campaign, been Chief Executive of the Ramblers’ Association, and is on the Governing Council of the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.

Work has included facilitation of development of global avian influenza communications for the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and FAO; and review of tsunami communications for UNICEF HQ, devising national strategies for behavioural change in relation to Guinea Worm Disease in Ghana and Nigeria, and working with fundraising colleagues to deliver WHO's Global Resource Mobilization strategy.

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Robin Jones has worked in research and fundraising for over 20 years. His clients include many UK charities and international not-for-profit organisations. Robin’s research expertise includes identifying new income streams for his clients, from a range of sources including high net worth individuals, corporates, grant making foundations and statutory organisations.

Robin is an experienced trainer and has provided tailor made courses for a number of clients. He has spoken on prospect research at many fundraising conferences organised by such bodies as the Chartered Institute of Fundraising, Directory of Social Change and, in the United States for APRA (Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement).

Robin is a past chair of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising's special interest group, Researchers in Fundraising and a former committee member of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising South West. He is a past trustee of the Bristol-based recycling and prisoner rehabilitation charity, The Sofa Project.

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Previously Head of Fundraising at Freedom From Torture (formerlyMedical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture), Jim Tomlinson has an excellent background in all aspects of fundraising.

He is an exceptional Grants fundraiser, having met personal annual income targets in excess of £2 million from this area forFreedom from Torture, where he managed relationships with, amongst others, the European Commission and United Nations.

As a consultant for IFC Jim has worked directly with organisations in researching and writing fundraising bids, including raising £1.6m from the Big Lottery Fund for a Library renovation and securing a £1m government grant for a Youth Centre. He has worked with diverse group of organisations, including development and human rights groups in Kyrgyzstan, international development organisations, and employment campaign organisations in England.

Jim holds a postgraduate qualification in research design and methodology and has provided research services to a number of UK, US based and international organisations.He has researched a number of funding areas including bio-diversity, health systems, human rights, AIDS/HIV and sustainable development.

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Nicola has 20 years’ experience and a demonstrated history of partnership, programme and strategy development, management, reporting and evaluation in global non-profit organisations across a range of sectors, both as a funder and a grantee.

She has secured and managed multi-million, multi-year commitments from international trusts, foundations and government donors, and managed teams to exceed annual income targets. 

Nicola has specialised in building effective and lasting working relationships. As a consultant, she has advised clients on strategy setting and fundraising in a number of countries, combining careful and accurate analysis and evaluation with reasoned and objective judgement.

With an eye for detail and conciseness, particularly in relation to planning, monitoring, reporting and impact evaluation, Nicola previously worked as a strategic development consultant for a Netherlands-based foundation and for a European funding programme. She thrives on contact with a diverse range of partners, and works flexibly and proactively to support their initiatives. She is convinced that by working together, we can make the world a better place.

Nicola has a BA (Hons) in French and politics, and speaks fluent French.

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