Fundraising Consultants - Senior Team

Graham Parker - Director & Senior Consultant

Graham is the Director of Charity Fundraising Ltd, a business with a social purpose which he founded in 2001. Graham has been involved in voluntary sector work and fundraising for over 40 years, achieving specialist expertise and a track record of success in achieving grant funding for a wide range of revenue and capital projects.

Following employment with a Charity in his early twenties, Graham went on to serve 25 years in the Governor Grade of the Prison Service. In this role Graham engaged serving inmates in activities supporting disabled people including chartering sailing ships and riding for the disabled. Inmates routinely worked with Graham to achieve funding for these activities from grant funding sources and fundraising events such as running the London Marathon.

On early retirement from the prison service, Graham founded and built a Charity and young people’s project working proactively with offenders, ex-offenders and those at risk of offending; engaging them in new and positive lifestyles. Through Graham’s leadership and skills as a professional fundraiser, the Charity grew substantially over five years.

From small beginnings, Graham has built Charity Fundraising Ltd into a major UK Fundraising Consultancy. He has worked directly with a huge range of voluntary sector organisations across the UK developing fundraising strategies, providing advice, guidance, planning, training, mentoring, research and bid writing; achieving £ Millions in grant funding for charity clients. Graham is an Associate member of the Institute of Fundraising and has achieved NCVO approved consultant status for Charity Fundraising Ltd. Graham is supported by a team of experienced fundraising consultants.

Paul Parker - Senior Fundraising Consultant

Paul has been involved in the voluntary sector for many years, first supporting fundraising efforts for his father’s charity as a teenager. Paul started working with Charity Fundraising in 2001 and continued part-time while undertaking his Degree at the University of Derby. Following his Graduation Paul travelled around the world and then re-joined the Charity Fundraising team full-time in 2005.

Paul has undertaken work for around 30 registered charities covering: research, strategic advice, bid writing, fundraising strategies and more. He has delivered training at Charity Fundraising events and also provides Fundraising and IT skills development in-house. Paul’s bid writing has achieved well in excess of £2 Million for Charity Fundraising clients.

Graham Sheath - Senior Fundraising Consultant

Graham has worked as a senior fundraising consultant for Charity Fundraising since 2004, following a long career as a health service manager. As lead consultant for two of our major clients he has both helped to guide their planning of capital developments, and has been responsible for preparing significant numbers of grant and funding applications for these capital projects and other revenue funding requirements.

In his latter years in the health service Graham was the Capital Development Manager for a large Hospital Trust. In this role he was responsible for preparing business cases, project managing capital building schemes, and managing the Trust's overall capital programme. He therefore brings a wealth of practical experience about capital development projects to his work with clients and our team.

Peter See - Senior Fundraising Consultant

Peter has a wide-ranging knowledge and experience of organisations across the Third Sector: from grant-funded charities to co-operatives and social firms with substantial trading income and from local enterprises to county, regional and national networks. A qualified Business Advisor, he specialises in business and financial planning, legal structures for enterprises and income generation.

Peter has worked in the voluntary sector since 2000, having previously been a Business Manager in the corporate sector. He was Project Manager for the creation and operation of Suffolk Community Enterprise, an advice and support service to the Third Sector in Suffolk, and Development Manager for Social Enterprise East of England, a regional promotional, support and brokerage network. He has spoken at a number of national and regional conferences, contributed feature articles to Charity Funding Report and now delivers our training modules on business planning and risk management.