Sharing the Best Forum 2008 - "Innovation"

Speaker Biographies

Pauline Broomhead

Passionately committed to improving people’s lives, Pauline has developed an established career in fundraising. Formerly the National Campaign Manager for the NSPCC’s FULL STOP Appeal, Pauline is now putting her skills in management, strategic planning, fundraising, mentoring and consulting behind The FSI, leading the organisation forward in capacity building for the Third Sector.

Pauline’s motivation to get out of bed each morning? “To make sure individuals and organisations with passionate charitable commitments have the knowledge and tools to make a bigger and better impact each day.”

Emma Harrison

Emma Harrison is founding Chairman of Trustees and a well-known, charismatic and respected entrepreneur. Emma has a unique approach to leadership, seeing her role as being to 'inspire, encourage and elevate'. It is this philosophy along with her principle of 'doing well by doing good' to improve people's lives that has seen her turn a small regional training provider, A4e, into an international, multi award winning company and her reason behind creating The FSI.

Emma has supported charitable causes for many years through her businesses such as Novantia, which sponsors schools in Southern India and through her role as Chairman of the NSPCC’s Regional Full Stop Appeal where Emma played a prominent role in helping them reach the fund raising target of £50m.

Stephen George 

Stephen George is Development Director for Legacy Fundraising at the NSPCC. He joined as Director of Community Appeals in 1998 where he was responsible for local fundraising, schools and national events across the UK. In 1999, when the Full Stop Appeal was launched, Stephen managed the appeal in the Regions that raised £55 million of the appeal total. Before joining the NSPCC, he was Head of Regional Fundraising at Unicef for 3 years and prior to that spent 12 years in a range of fundraising and management roles at Scope. He has just taken on the Chairmanship of the Remember a Charity Campaign.

Joe Saxton

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.

Debra Allcock Tyler

Since 2001, Debra has been the Chief Executive of the Directory of Social Change, which works towards an independent voluntary sector at the heart of social change.  DSC seeks to help voluntary and community organisations become effective agents of change. 
Debra is a Trustee of MedicAlert® which is the only non-profit making, registered charity providing a life-saving identification system for individuals with hidden medical conditions and allergies.  She is Chair of the Small Charities Coalition and a member of the Charity Commission’s SORP Committee.  She writes a regular column for Third Sector magazine.

Tim Campbell

Winner of the hit BBC series The Apprentice, Timothy Campbell has now left Amstrad PLC to start his own entrepreneurial venture; a social enterprise initiative – The Bright Ideas Trust. When he left Amstrad earlier this year to launch his own business, Sir Alan’s message to Tim was testament to his ability and potential.
“He has been a great asset to the company and I wish him the best of luck for the future. He was the right choice and I will be there to offer any help and guidance should he need it.”
Tim, 30,  has gone on to found the Bright Ideas Trust, a social enterprise to encourage young budding entrepreneurs to start business ventures, by giving them greater access to start-up finance and business mentors and advisors.
He is a Cabinet Office Social Enterprise Ambassador and a Child Ambassador for London and was appointed by Beverley Hughes, the Children’s Minister, to focus on the particular problems of the capital’s young people. Tim is also closely involved with the Jack Petchey Foundation, the ACLT, as well as an active supporter of the NSPCC, Learn Direct and Connexions. He is the face of the British Library’s campaign to promote their services and has been described as ‘the human face of business’ as one broadsheet newspaper referred to him.
“With the right support and partnerships I see no reason why I cannot continue to pass on positive messages and help to others, particularly the next generation. I think we can attain the unthinkable.” He said.
Born in East London he lives with his fiancée Jasmine and their daughter Kayla, aged 6.

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Graham Allen

Graham Allen is a partner in Marriott Gibbs Rees Wallis, Chartered Certified Accountants, in Sheffield.  Graham trained as a Chartered Accountant with a ‘big four’ accountancy firm after university, where he read law, and has since had wide experience of working in industry and in private practice.
His career has brought him into close contact with a very wide variety of commercial, industrial and charitable organisations. 
Graham was born in Chingola, Zambia.  He came to live in England as a teenager and subsequently went to Sheffield University.  His family originally came from Sheffield and his grandfather emigrated to South Africa in 1904.  Graham has spent his career working in South and West Yorkshire and, in particular, in Sheffield.  He is a keen gardener and hill walker and a life-long supporter of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club, his family connections with Sheffield Wednesday going back more than one hundred years.  He is married, with a son and daughter.

Avi Armoni

Born in Jerusalem Avinoam Armoni is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law and has an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where he studied as a Wexner Fellow.
Avi has had a lifelong impact on many organisations throughout the world.  He was the founder and Chairman of Yedid, Israel’s largest democracy and empowerment programme, he has served as Chairman on the Boards of The Technological College of Beer Sheva and the B’nai B’rith Residential Treatment Centre in Jerusalem and was also a Board Member of Matan (United Way of Israel).  He is an immediate past Vice President for external relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As well as the above he has been a strategic consultant and advisor to a number of organisations, mainly in the academic and voluntary sector.  As Executive Director in Israel of the New Israel Fund from 1991 to 1997 he managed and developed its programmes in Israel, oversaw grant making activities, fundraised and represented the organization internationally.  During his period at The New Israel Fund the Fund grew from being a $5 million to a $17 million a year organisation.
Avi has lectured extensively in Israel and abroad on strategic planning for resource development, Israeli civil society and the development of social responsibility within the business sector in Israel. Over the years he has developed an extensive network of contacts throughout the world and specifically in the USA where he has frequently been invited to speak.
Avinoam Armoni is currently serving as an adviser to the Edmond J Safra Philanthropic Foundation. 

Emma Harrison 

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Helen Purnelet 

Helen has worked in the City for nearly 20 years, firstly as a solicitor and then as an investment banker, with a number of leading banks, advising companies on mergers and acquisitions and corporate strategy.

She is currently a ‘hands-on’ charity trustee of The Royal Wanstead Children’s Foundation, where she is primarily involved in marketing and strategy, Combat Stress where she is a member of the strategy and the fundraising sub-committees and the National Society for Epilepsy.

Annabel James

Annabel's career includes the commercial and not-for-profit sectors.  She started in corporate communications working on community relations and corporate reputation issues.  She moved into the charity sector as Head of Corporate Fundraising at the NSPCC during the FULL STOP appeal where her focus was raising £50 million from the corporate sector.  More recently she was Director of Charities and CSR at GCap Media, the UK's largest commercial radio group, responsible for fundraising and grant-giving for iconic charity brands including Help a London Child and Classic FM s Music Makers.  She moved back into consultancy in 2008 setting up Magenta Projects, providing fundraising consultancy for small charities and CSR strategy and implementation for corporates.

Polly Gowers

Polly Gowers founded Everyclick.com, the website that is revolutionising the way we give to charity. It provides the facilities for all 200,000 UK charities to collect donations in a range of ways online. It is the most visited website in the charity sector and has ambitions to move charitable giving which still mainly occurs offline, online.
Polly has secured significant financial backing from some of the most established, blue-chip UK investors including the Fleming Family to support the development of the complex IT infrastructure that powers Everyclick.com.
Awards include WEBA Ethical Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 and Blackberry Woman in Technology 2008. Everyclick is a Finalist at the National Business Awards 2008.

Mike Locke

Mike Locke was appointed in May 2008 to the newly created role of Director of Public Affairs at Volunteering England (VE), the national development agency for volunteering. Previously, he had worked with the Centre for Institutional Studies at the University of East London, as Director of the centre until March 2007 and then being seconded to VE’s Institute for Volunteering Research as Assistant Director.  In 1997 he helped create the Institute with current VE Chief Executive Justin Davis Smith, through the association of Volunteering England and the University of East London.  With the Institute for Volunteering Research, he has been involved  a variety of studies, including evaluation of government policies and organisational programmes for volunteering, exploratory studies in faith-based voluntary action and community involvement, and the management capacities of volunteer-involving organisations. Mike was also a founder member of the Advisory Group initiating and developing strategy for volunteering for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
Mike’s experience of voluntary organisations and voluntary action dates back to the early 1970s through involvement in community organisations in the North Kensington/Notting Hill area of London, and he has worked as a researcher and teacher with voluntary and community sector issues since the early 1980s.

Kate Jackson

I first came to Lancashire Wildlife Trust as a volunteer about three years ago and have been in post as Membership Development Officer for the last two and a half years. As part of a small team, I play a key role in contributing to our fundraising targets and sharing ideas with the rest of the Development Department. I’m eager and enthusiastic and ready to learn!
I am also extremely fortunate to be the first FSI scholar! This is a life changing opportunity for me as I am able to attend training courses and receive mentoring that is beyond the capabilities of our budget. I’m committed to a career in fundraising as I think the Third Sector has the talent and creativity to deliver projects, across the board, with a passion that some commercial alternatives simply don’t have.