Paul Parker
With over 20 years of experience working with an extensive range of charities, Paul has led major fundraising reviews, strategies, and programme evaluations. He has extensive expertise in Lottery and trust fundraising, tender writing, project evaluation, and fundraising strategy development.
Paul’s efforts have enabled rapid growth for clients, with many examples of strategy development enabling client voluntary income to double or more within 2–3 years. He has directly secured well over £15 million for charities as well as equipping organisations with the skills and support to achieve substantial growth themselves.
Based in Suffolk, Paul supports clients while also leading our team of charity consultants and driving business development. A full member of the Institute of Fundraising, he is passionate about the voluntary sector and its potential to positively impact society. Paul takes a hands-on approach, working closely with charities to understand their unique challenges, supporting them to communicate their needs and impact and maximise their potential to make a difference.
Steph Prentis
Steph started working in the field of community regeneration in 2006 with an employment and training contractor supporting disadvantaged individuals. Since 2009, Steph has focused solely upon supporting Charities to successfully fundraise, strengthen their organisations and improve the services they provide to local people. Her work with them focuses on developing effective and robust fundraising and income generation strategies, successfully bidding for large grants and tenders, developing effective monitoring and evaluation processes and undertaking charity evaluations.
Steph’s experience is broad, drawing on work for the social housing sector, skills and employment, children and youth services, health and social care for older people, community cohesion, patient representation and medical charities.
Committed to working with Charities in order to help them make a difference to the lives of some of the most vulnerable in our society, Steph has directly secured over £4 million for the voluntary sector in the last 3 years alone and has supported a number of our clients by auditing their fundraising positions and developing new fundraising strategies.
Fay Cope
Fay has been fundraising in the charity sector since 2004 in Management roles in Statutory and Grant fundraising, Individual Giving and Supporter Care. Fay has previously worked for charities with a core focus in mental health, physical and learning disability, and international development.
Employed at Charity Fundraising Ltd since 2018 she has raised £5m+ for our clients. In addition to tender writing and grant fundraising, Fay has undertaken a significant amount of strategic work, focused on supporting our clients’ growth and development. This work has included fundraising reviews/strategy, business planning and new project/new business development. Fay is also qualified to postgraduate level in heritage and archaeology and spent five years working in the heritage sector prior to becoming a fundraiser.
Gemma Walpole
Gemma has over 20 years experience working in the charity sector and is a full Certified Member of the Institute of Fundraising (MinstFDip).
Prior to joining Charity Fundraising Ltd Gemma worked for local and national animal welfare and social welfare charities in CEO, senior leadership and operational fundraising roles. Her fundraising experience includes individual giving, grants & trusts, charity retail, and fundraising strategy development. Gemma also has experience in governance, currently as a trustee for a grant making trust and a charity supporting young people in Norfolk.
Gemma is passionate about the third sector and is committed to helping charities further the vital role they play in making the world a better place.
Linda Bowie
Linda has worked in fundraising for more than twenty years, supporting a range of voluntary sector organisations including small charities and large, national organisations.
She has a PhD in English literature. Prior to joining Charity Fundraising in January 2024, she worked at The Fostering Network for more than ten years submitting successful applications to a range of funders including The Scottish Government, National Lottery Community Fund, The Promise Scotland, Garfield Weston Foundation, Life Changes Trust, and many others. She has experience in a variety of areas including care experience, homelessness, disability, children and young people. She lives in Scotland and has extensive knowledge of the Scottish fundraising sector.
Jayne Hobin-Wright
Jayne joined Charity Fundraising Ltd in 2025. She brings over 20 years’ senior leadership experience across the cultural, education, youth and mental health charity sectors and recently completed her CMI Level 7 in Strategic Leadership & Management.
Jayne’s previous position as Deputy CEO of a mental health charity involved developing a diverse fundraising strategy which grew income from <£200K to £2.66m p.a. and expanded local all-age bereavement, suicide postvention and domestic abuse services into national provision. Jayne brings significant successful experience of public sector tendering and grant fundraising from trusts and foundations and has secured grants through Arts Council England, Children in Need, Julia Rausing Trust, Independent Age and Masonic Charitable Foundation and capital grants through Social Investment Business, Biffa and Wolfson Foundation amongst many others.
Hannah Belcher Bennett
Hannah has over 12 years’ experience of conducting research and evaluation work. This has including working with charities such as Mind, Citizen’s Advice and the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, as well as with NHS foundation trusts and within academia. She has experience of monitoring and evaluation across health and social welfare issues, including adults’ and young people’s mental health, neurodivergence, financial issues, student experiences, disability, experiences of minority groups, and service use.
Hannah has a PhD in Psychology and has extensive experience in both quantitative and qualitative research methods and data analysis. Her research has been primarily based on the experience of autistic adults and mental health service users. Prior to joining Charity Fundraising Ltd Hannah worked for Mind as a Senior Evaluation Officer on a broad range of national and local programmes, before re-entering academia as a Lecturer in User-Led Research at King’s College London.
She is passionate about connecting to the communities she is researching, harnessing lived experience to enhance the impact of her evaluative work.
Rachel Poynor
Rachel has over ten years’ experience of working with a range of charities including Marie Curie, Beat, Working Chance and Ella’s in project management, service development and fundraising roles. She has experience of monitoring and evaluation across health and social welfare issues including homelessness, carer support, end of life care, ex-offender rehabilitation, modern slavery and mental health conditions.
She has studied qualitative and quantitative research methods and holds a BA (Hons) in Social Anthropology and an MSc in Public Policy. Her undergraduate research included ethnographic fieldwork in Uganda and her master’s research focused on co-production in adult social care during which she undertook qualitative research with ‘experts by experience’ and local authorities. She has previously volunteered as a Hub Leader for FoodCycle where she consulted with Hub users and volunteers, and currently volunteers serving customers at her local community shop. She is also a trustee of a local charity offering subsidised counselling.
Graham Parker
Graham is the Director of Charity Fundraising Ltd, a business with a social purpose which he founded in 2000. 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 and contract 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 client organisations. Graham is a Director of the Association of Fundraising Consultants, 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 charity fundraising consultants and officers.
