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Our Associates
In order to broaden the areas in which we work and to be able to offer clients a wider range of services and ideas, nfpSynergy works with experienced and smart not-for-profit professionals on an ad hoc basis. Below you will find more information on our Associates. If you feel you would be interested in discussing becoming an Associate of nfpSynergy and have skills which can broaden the range of products and services we offer to our clients, please contact Brian.
Gideon Burrows
Gideon Burrows is a writer and editor, specialising in the voluntary and social enterprise sectors. He was a reporter on Community Care magazine, news editor on political monthly RedPepper, a writer on charity communications for Third Sector magazine and worked for The Guardian and The Times before establishing ngo.media, a third sector media consultancy.
In 2005, Gideon launched The Ethical Careers Guide, a unique handbook covering careers with a conscience, and now also publishes ethicalcareers.org and various charity related publications, including Working for a Better World and careers guides on social enterprise and regeneration.
ngo.media is a small media consultancy providing a range of solutions for socially driven organisations, including research, writing, editing, design, media training and conferences. Clients include Help the Aged, Christian Aid, Friends of the Earth, WaterAid and ContinYou. ngo.media is behind the first ever conference for charity communications professionals.
With nfpSynergy, ngo.media carries out our Media Awareness Monitor and is developing plans to provide charity communications toolkits.
Visit: www.ngomedia.org.uk
Email: gideon@ngomedia.org.uk
Paul Finnis
Paul Finnis has 15 years experience in the voluntary sector working with organisations such as Age Concern England, Mencap and the Mental Health Foundation. Paul has worked for the last 5 years providing advice on income generation – both fundraising and social enterprise, strategies, planning and management to charities, other not-for-profits and statutory agencies. Having recently moved to Suffolk, Paul now splits his working time between London and the Eastern region where his clients include local, regional and national organisations. Paul is an active volunteer and trustee.
Email: PaulFinnis@aol.com
Adrian Gillan
Gillan Media helps raise nfpSynergy’s profile by identifying and promoting newsworthy elements of our work; and by putting our staff forward as commentators and spokespeople on charity issues of the day which hit the media’s agenda.
Adrian Gillan launched Gillan Media in 2001 following leading roles at several of the UK’s top five PR agencies where he developed and implementing a range of consumer and business-to-business media programmes for clients ranging from McDonalds to Rolls Royce, from Newcastle City Council to the Financial Times. He has been nominated “Young PR Professional of the Year” at the PR Week Awards and is also an active freelance journalist in his own right, regularly contributing to media, from Esquire to Bizarre.
More at www.gillanmedia.com
Email: adrian@gillanmedia.com
Cathy Lloyd
Cathy is a social researcher specialising in qualitative research within the public and charity sector. After academic research posts at Reading and Oxford Universities Cathy has worked in the field of qualitative research for several years. Clients have included the Central Office of Communications (COI), The Wellcome Trust, The National Trust, Asia House, Macmillan Nurses, Shelter, The Scout Association and many Primary Care Trusts across the UK.Cathy’s background in European social psychology (BA Hons Psychology from Reading, MSc (Econ) Social Psychology from the London School of Economics) has provided a strong methodological canvas to work from, alongside an abiding interest in the representations people create in order to understand their worlds.
Cathy is a member of the Market Research Society, Association of Qualitative Researchers and the British Psychological Society.
Email: clloydresearch@aol.com
John Grain
John has worked in fundraising for more than 15 years, and is a specialist in donor acquisition, donor development, and relationship fundraising. He also
has considerable experience of setting up back-end response and fulfilment systems covering donor care, databases, welcoming, complaint handling, and systems and standards.
John has previously held senior fundraising roles within Oxfam and ITDG, including over six years as Oxfam’s Donor Relations Manager. He was also Director of Fundraising for both Children’s Aid Direct and the international housing charity, Habitat for Humanity. More recently he was Managing Director of Our Lasting Tribute, the specialist In-memoriam and legacy consultancy.
In 2002, John was identified by Professional Fundraising magazine as one of their “12 future gurus”, and in 2004, he won the inaugural DMA Excellence Award for Innovation for work with Our Lasting Tribute.
Recent major projects in supporter development and donor retention have been carried out for WRVS, NCH the children’s charity, Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, and are in progress for the Church Pastoral Aid Society, Rethink, and Macmillan.
John is has also been independently verified by the Institute of Fundraising and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) and is listed in the 2006 directories of approved consultants for each.
Email: jgrain1@mac.com
Alison Ive
Alison is a freelance strategic planner and researcher. She has over 13 years experience in marketing charity brands. Her perspective and experience on marketing is broad, having worked both client-side and agency-side, in fundraising, campaigning and communications.
She spent five years at Oxfam where her experience was regional, national and international. Using consumer insight, she distilled complex policy issues into simple and effective populist campaigns to recruit campaign activists to the “Make Trade Fair” and Clothes Code Campaign.
Subsequently she worked as a planner on strategy, brand and creative with a range of marketing agencies. She is fascinated by what motivates people to engage with various non-profits, and takes a creative approach in translating these motivations into brands, messages and communications that bring an organisation to life in an engaging way.
Her clients have included WaterAid, Cancer Research Campaign, Ramblers, Sightsavers, Greenpeace, Red Cross, Amnesty International, Scouts Association, RSPB & Arthritis Care.
She also undertook a New Product Development consultancy project with Unicef in Sydney, Australia. She was responsible for strategic and creative development of a new flagship fundraising product.
More recently she was Head of Marketing at Plan, an international children’s charity. Here she was responsible for a team that raised £18m income from a budget of £3.5m, through donor recruitment & development, and corporate partnerships.
Email:aive@mac.com
Elizabeth Tindall
Elizabeth is a freelance strategic planner and researcher. A psychology graduate, she started her career in a small qualitative agency based in a leading London ad agency. After several years conducting research for top 100 companies, charities and ad agencies, the lure of the creative world got the better of her. She took the natural step across from research to creative planning and spent 10 years working in several London agencies on both commercial brands and charities. She has planned successful brand strategies and communications programmes for large charities such as Help the Aged, Macmillan Cancer Support, Sight Savers and Dogs Trust. Most recently, she was instrumental in re-branding Help the Aged as well as helping them create their award winning I WILL campaign. Drawing from years of marketing experience she is particularly adept at researching advertising and branding projects.