Mountsorrel Railway

I'm currently volunteering to fundraise for a project to recreate the Mountsorrel Railway, a unique industrial steam railway line in my village.

To find out more about this exciting educational heritage project, or to offer support, please contact me.

The person managing the project is Steve Cramp, should you like to get in touch with him. The project is being run by the charity Railway Vehicle Preservations Ltd.

CV

Employment

2006+
Prospect Researcher
Motor Neurone Disease Association

• working with CEO plus major donor, corporate, trust and community fundraising teams
• profiling, rating and reporting on prospective supporters who fundraisers are seeing, and recommending how to approach and what to approach for
• proactively finding and prioritising further prospects on the fundraising database, and elsewhere, and making recommendations about which fundraiser should see them and how to approach
• regularly using research databases such as Companies House Direct, DASH and NewsUK
• reporting to head of trusts

2006
Senior Trusts Fundraiser
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL)

• created and implemented trust and legacy fundraising strategies
• prospect research of potential major donors
• reported to head of fundraising

2000 - 2006
Individuals Fundraiser
Methodist Homes for the Aged (MHA Care Group), Derby

• created and implemented donor development strategy, managing all aspects of individual fundraising - including recruitment of new donors and development of existing donors via direct mail, also segmentation, committed giving, online giving and donations in remembrance
• prospect research for major 'capital' appeals
• reported to head of fundraising

1999 - 2000
Trusts Fundraiser
Home-Start UK, Leicester

• created and implemented trust and lottery fundraising strategy and trust communication cycle, researching likely trusts that could donate; also setup new fundraising database and charity's website
• reported to head of fundraising

1996 - 1999
Grants Officer
National Lottery Charities Board (now the Big Lottery Fund), Leicester

• assessed applications from national charities to the lottery, visiting or phoning applicants and objectively writing up findings; also responsible for management and monitoring of grants
• reported to grants manager

1995 - 1996
Assistant
Kaleidoscope Mail Order, Leicester

Education

1992 - 1995
BA (Hons), English (major subject) + Race Relations (minor subject)
Edge Hill University Sector College, Ormskirk, Lancashire

Researching major donors for free

On 13 November 2007 I was a speaker at the Institute of Fundraising Midlands conference in Nottingham. I spoke on how to research major donors for free (major donors are people who could potentially give your charity large donations). My presentation is downloadable here if you'd like to see it.

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