Meet the tutors

Here’s a chance for you to find out about the tutors who will be guiding you through your training.

Bill Bruty

Bill has been a professional fundraiser since 1984 and has worked as Fundraising Manager or Director for four large national charities in the UK. He is also one of the UK’s leading fundraising trainers, working with clients as diverse as UNICEF UK, the National Trust and the British Stammering Association, as well as small community based agencies in the UK, Ecuador and Africa. Bill specialises in mastering the skills of persuasive writing.

He is now the Director of Fundraising Training Ltd, which specializes in recruiting and training people who are new to a career in fundraising. Bill also provides strategic advice and mentoring to several national charities. Current clients include:

Bridget Fanklin

Bridget started her charity career in 1993. She became a successful trust fundraiser and then had the opportunity to move into grantmaking as Charity Director for the share donation charity, ShareGift, managing several million pounds of donations to more than a thousand different charities while she had this role. Recently she has been working as a consultant for the philanthropy advice organisation Prospero World, researching charities and helping clients including charitable trusts and individual major donors with their funding decisions. She has a special interest in improving the quality of communications between fundraisers and funders.

Gary Hawkes

With a dissertation on punk rock forming the bedrock of his first degree, the voluntary sector seemed a natural home for Gary after graduating.

Starting as a regional fundraiser from grant making trusts at NCH (National Children’s Home) in 1991 Gary spent 7 years at one of the country’s leading child care charities including roles as a Homelessness Worker and eventually leading a small team managing the charity’s approaches to grant making trusts and market research programme. Entering the world of Hospice fundraising in 1997 as Trusts and European Fundraising Manager at Marie Curie Cancer Care, Gary increased the charity’s income from grant making bodies from £500,000 to £3 million. During his time at Marie Curie Gary’s role developed and included taking responsibility for the charity’s capital appeals and major donor programme as well as working with partners in the NHS to develop and secure £6 million of NOF funding. He also completed an MSc in Charity Marketing and Fundraising with a dissertation on grant making foundations.

In January 2004, Gary joined Farleigh Hospice as Head of Fundraising & PR one month before the launch of the public appeal for the new Farleigh Hospice and is now responsible for both revenue and capital fundraising with the new Hospice having just opened in January 2006.

Gary has worked as a trainer with Fundraising Training for the past 6 years. The dissertation in punk rock still comes in useful.

John Cammack

A qualified accountant, manager and teacher who has worked as Head of International of Oxfam GB (1982-1990) and senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University (1990-2002).

John now works as a freelance consultant with a range of UK and international charities. He has authored several publications on financial management in the voluntary sector.

Lee Lloyd

Lee has been Trust Fundraising Manager at Arthritis Research UK, the fourth largest medical research charity in the UK, since October 2009. Lee is tasked with increasing the trust fundraising income at Arthritis Research UK sixfold within three years.

Prior to joining Arthritis Research UK, Lee spent four and a half years as Fundraising Manager at Contact the Elderly, a much smaller charity where volunteers outnumbered paid staff by 250 to 1. In this time Lee increased income by 61%, secured John Lewis Charity of the Year, worked with the Institute of Philanthropy to secure major gift funding, secured several large six figure trust donations and was successful with Big Lottery Fund, local authority and national statutory applications (as well as organising pub quizzes, sponsored runs and street collections). Before Contact the Elderly, Lee spent three and a half years as trust fundraiser at a social welfare charity working with vulnerable children and families.

A graduate of the trust fundraising training scheme in 2001, Lee has acted as a tutor on the course since 2005 and has tutored more than 20 trainee fundraisers in this time. Lee has also presented five times at courses run by the Institute of Fundraising, with topics including statutory, trust and corporate fundraising.

Yvonne Lane

Yvonne Lane has over 20 years experience in the voluntary sector. During this time she has gained extensive experience of UK and International fundraising and of mentoring trainee fundraisers in the UK and overseas. As Head of Fundraising at Anti-Slavery International she played a key role in a financial turn-around, seeing grant income increased by 30% in 2007-08 and by a further 46% in 2008-09, with an overall income increase of 59% in 2008-9 with unrestricted income increasing by 16%. Yvonne has experience of working with a number of major funders and has worked on successful bids of £1.4m to DFID; £150k from Comic Relief and £230k from the Diana Fund. Yvonne is currently Development Manager at TechnosServe Europe.

“I believe that successful fundraising is based on effective team work, good communication and the sharing of information. One of my biggest successes involved an application process co-ordinating over 30 different organisations across four continents, resulting in a grant of £750,000 from Comic Relief.”

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