Emma Harrison CBE is the founding Chairman of the FSI, and a well-known, charismatic and respected entrepreneur. She established the FSI in 2007 with a view to empowering charities by delivering learning and development opportunities to move them toward sustainability. Under her leadership, the FSI has grown to provide a full training, support and advocacy service, delivered free of charge to charities with raised income up to £1.5m.

Emma has a unique approach to leadership, seeing her role as being to 'inspire, encourage and elevate'. Her success as a entrepreneur, visionary and philanthropist saw her awarded a CBE in the 2010 New Year’s Honours List.

Emma has supported charitable causes for many years including as Trustee of the Eden Project and through her role as Chairman of the NSPCC’s Regional Full Stop Appeal where she helped raise almost £57 million which played a prominent role in helping them reach their national fund raising target of £250m.

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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.

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Liz Atkins has extensive experience as a campaigner and and as a communications, public affairs and policy strategist. She is passionate about improving the quality of life for the most vulnerable and enabling charities to make a positive impact on their lives.

Her last post was as Director of Public Policy at NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations). Prior to NCVO, Liz was Director of Strategy and Communications at the National Housing Federation which represents housing associations. Past roles include responsibility for policy and public affairs at NSPCC, government relations at the Post Office and at the Co-op and policy adviser to the Labour Party. She currently serves on Ofcom's Advisory Committee on older and disabled people.

Born in Essex, Liz took degrees at Sussex University and the London School of Economics. She now lives in London.

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Jo is A4e’s Group Development Director responsible for all Sales, Development and Marketing; along with Public Affairs and Public Relations.

Jo joined A4e from Carillion Government Services where she spend 5 years heading up the business development team, delivering growth targets of around £600m per annum. As the member of the Board responsible for the £1.5bn services business in Carillion Group, she was responsible for the growth and business strategy, delivering an order book value of circa £1.2bn in the public and private sectors. Prior to Carillion, Jo spent 10 years with Serco, focusing on developing business in Serco’s markets in Health, Local government, Education and Facilities Management. Prior to that she was a Management Consultant specialising in public service practice and specialising in the health and local government sectors.

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Andrew, when asked to join the Board of Trustees of the FSI was delighted because he had, over the past two years, heard much about the work of the charity and is impressed with the way it leverages its impact on behalf of small charities. He has a clear view of how significant the impact of the FSI is within the sector and is passionate about being involved in the future development of the charity.

Andrew holds a Masters Degree in Marketing and has extensive senior management experience in outsourcing in the public and private sector. After leaving University Andrew joined Thames Water Plc’s Graduate Programme working predominantly in its International business. Andrew ultimately served on the Board of Vertex as its Chief Operating Officer accountable for running contracts with an annual turnover of £375m in the UK, Canada and India. Andrew joined A4e 2 ½ years ago and was appointed to the role of Group CEO in October 2010.

Andrew is married with three children and lives in Wilmslow, Cheshire. Andrew has a passion for Science Fiction Fantasy novels and has recently become a convert to the TV series the “West Wing”, which alongside his 3 dogs and and 3 children and now the FSI will taking up much if not all of his spare time.

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John Grounds is director of communications for the NSPCC. His responsibilities cover all aspects of the society's PR, advertising, new media, marketing communications and internal communications.

John's career has taken in both commercial and charity roles. Prior to the NSPCC he was director of campaigns and communications at medical charity Action Medical Research. His last task at Action Research was to launch the charity's 50th anniversary year, with the help of its long-time mascot, Paddington Bear.

Past roles include responsibility for Communications at Barnardo's, five years at The Body Shop as international PR manager and a PR and campaigning role alongside Bruce Kent at the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. John is also the author of a book, London: A Living Guide

Born in Braintree, Essex, John went to university in Cambridge and Reading before moving to London, where he lived until moving to his current home in Horsham, West Sussex, after the birth of his son, Tom in 1990.

Outside work, music is a consuming passion, as well as a love of film, art and literature and a 40-year devotion to Arsenal FC.

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Mark is the Executive Chairman of A4e. Having started with the organisation as a graduate of Warwick University in 1991, Mark is now an expert in business diversification and excels at identifying solutions for failing markets and niche opportunities for innovative ways of tackling difficult public service agendas. His focus is building effective business models with private, public and voluntary/community organisations to create customer driven services which assist Government’s in delivering social change.

Outside of A4e, Mark is a board member of his Local Strategic Partnership in Sheffield, a Non Executive Director of Sheffield Primary Care Trust (PCT), a member of the CBI's Public Services Strategy Board and a member of the CBI's Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Council.

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Graham Precey has been Head of Corporate Responsibility for Legal & General Group Plc for three years. His role is to be the "conscience" of the organisation in the way that it campaigns for social, environmental and economic issues material to its businesses of Risk, Savings and Investment Management.

Legal & General is campaigning for important issues as a major player in the Financial Services Industry including: Housing for all, Good Corporate Governance, A Healthier Nation, a Stronger Savings Culture, Sustainable Commercial Property and Alleviating Pensioner Poverty.

His previous 7 years in Legal & General’s Wealth Division were spent as Head of Operations for Banks and Building Societies and Investment Operations. The previous 6 years to that were spent working for Hewlett Packard in the US and Asia. A corporate view of the world is balanced with Graham's involvement in leading Third Sector organisations. He is as Chair of Trustees for the charity Sail 4 Cancer as well as being a trustee of the FSI.

Graham's first dip into what has now evolved into a career in Social responsibility was sitting outside a local supermarket aged 8 with his Dad selling Bricks for £1 to help build a local community swimming pool in what is believed to be the first ever "Buy a Brick" campaign.

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Michael qualified as a lawyer in 1986 and has practised in London since 1988. Michael specialises in all aspects of commercial property with substantial experience of high-end investment property work and landlord and tenant matters in the commercial and retail sectors.

He is highly experienced in dealing with the Not for Profit Sector having for many years advised NHS Trusts, housing associations, charitable organisations and religious denominations, as well as government organisations, on the acquisition, disposal and management of their property assets. Michael is a trustee of the FSI.

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Pauline Broomhead is the founding CEO of the FSI, a charity she set up with Emma Harrison focused on arming small charities with the best learning opportunities to secure a sustainable future.

Pauline’s career has seen her work on campaigns with many of the most high-profile charities in the UK and abroad. She has garnered a reputation for outstanding commitment to the sector, bringing strategic planning, fundraising and relationship-management skills to all the work she undertakes.

Today, Pauline uses this experience to deliver training, development and consultancy services to the small charity sector through her work at the FSI. Since its inception, the FSI has helped thousands of small charities to improve their operations and maximise fundraising opportunities in order to deliver and diversify the services offered to their communities. It is this spirit of building better communities that drives Pauline and all of the team at the FSI.

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Conchita began her career in the charity sector six years ago after joining her first small charity where she gained experience in project management, fundraising and PR.

As someone who has experienced the difficulties small charities face first hand, she is extremely excited to be working with the FSI to support the many small charities the FSI works with across the UK.

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Garreth grew up in New Zealand, and has worked both there and in the UK on a range of political and communications campaigns to maximise engagement with audiences. His previous roles have covered the full marcomms and PR mix with charities in health and the arts.

At the FSI Garreth handles our relationships with policymakers and the media, and works to highlight small charity issues to Whitehall and the general public.

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Janine has a background in both the private and voluntary sectors, bringing knowledge and experience in these areas to the FSI. Since relocating to London from New Zealand in 2007, Janine has held learning and development roles with London East Connexions Partnership, and most recently Voluntary Action Islington.

Janine is a qualified teacher and Action Learning facilitator, with a wealth of experience in developing focused and outcome based training and learning support packages that meet National Occupational Standards. Passionate about empowering small charities through learning and development, Janine is also interested in new approaches such as online and mobile learning, and how these can benefit small charities.

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Michael joined the FSI on secondment from A4e where he was responsible for community partnership and client support on an employment project. In this role, Michael gained an insight into the amazing work done by small charities working with disadvantaged beneficiaries in London. He is enjoying the opportunity to support these organisations through his work at the FSI.

Michael grew up in Australia and graduated from the Australian National University with degrees in Politics and Law. Over the course of his studies Michael worked in central government and the media, he also volunteered at a community legal centre. He has spent time abroad volunteering, studying and travelling. Michael is passionate about grassroots community work and activism that is directed towards redressing social inequalities and injustice.

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After teaching English in Thailand followed by travelling round Cambodia, Louise chose to study Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Sussex. This degree instilled in her a desire to follow a career that would involve working with people to benefit communities, so working for the FSI suits her well. Louise's employment background so far has ranged from working in a Union, bars and clubs, and most recently, for an MP so has experience of working with many different types of people!

Louise finds it very interesting communicating with the incredibly diverse range of charities that access the FSI and enjoys it most when a small charity says that they have really benefited from the FSI's services.

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Lorraine started her professional career in the hospitality industry where she worked for some of the best known hotel groups such as Marriott and Jurys Inn in various countries like America, France and the UK.

Her main career interest and focus has always been in event planning and organising and she is currently very keen to move into Public Service and The Third Sector. Her internship with the FSI, where she is supporting the delivery of our free services to small charities through trainings, advice and events is helping her to achieve this goal. She would ultimately like to develop her career to become the Head of Project Management within the third sector or public training and development.

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Lindsay has an academic background in Politics which has taught her the importance of representation and has been a catalyst in inspiring her to build a career helping to improve civil society.

She has previous experience working as a PR and Communications Assistant in the public sector and has also worked as a volunteer teaching assistant.

This has brought Lindsay to the FSI where she aims to use her copywriting skills in order ensure the voice of the small charity sector is heard.

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Kim’s background is in Psychology and has been working in the social care sector for the past 16 years. The last 8 years of her career have been devoted to the charity sector with Action for Children (previously NCH), Holborn Community Association and School-Home Support.

She brings with her skills and experience in project management, fundraising, relationship management and new business development and is extremely excited about using these skills for the benefit of hundred’s of small charities across the UK and abroad.

Kim’s driving motivation: “Feeling fulfilled by devoting my daily life to worthy causes that I feel truly passionate about - the FSI and small charities definitely meet this need.”

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