Joe Saxton

Driver of Ideas

Joe Saxton is driver of ideas at nfpSynergy and founder. Joe works on a range of specific projects particularly those looking at impact, communications or trusteeship. He also works on the overall direction and development of nfpSynergy. Joe has co-authored reports on volunteering, mission & visions, branding and socio-economic change.

He is chair of the Institute of Fundraising as well as the student environment and development campaign group People & Planet. He is also chair of the CharityComms the new professional body for not for profit communicators.

In 2006 he was named by public affairs agency AS Biss one of ten ‘Stars of tomorrow’ in politics for the next ten years, and one of only two people from the charity sector. In 2005, 2006 and 2007 he was voted the most influential person on UK fundraising. In 2003 the Guardian named him as one of the 100 most influential people on social policy. In October 2007 the Evening Standard named him one of the 1000 most influential people in London. 

Before nfpSynergy, Joe Saxton was Director of Communications at the RNID, Britain’s largest charity for deaf and hard of hearing people, responsible for PR, disability consultancy, lobbying, campaigning, policy, information and membership.

He was with Brann, the world’s largest direct marketing group for five years and has worked with numerous charities. He co-founded the Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector marketing and is the author of ‘Its Competition, but not as we know it’ and ‘What are Charities for?’

For six years he was a trustee of the RSPCA and chair of both the Public Affairs and International committees. He also sits on the ESRC’s communications sub-committee.

Joe lives in Keswick in the Lake District and is married with three children.

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