Fundraising Consultants

Graham Parker
Director & Senior Consultant

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 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
Assistant Director

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 Ltd 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 Ltd team full-time in 2005.

Paul has undertaken work for a huge range of registered charities covering: research, strategic advice, mentoring, bid writing, fundraising strategies and more. He has delivered training at Charity Fundraising Ltd events and also provides Fundraising and IT skills development in-house. Paul’s bid writing has achieved well in excess of £4 Million for Charity Fundraising clients.

Graham Sheath
Senior Fundraising Consultant

Graham has worked as a senior fundraising consultant for Charity Fundraising Ltd since 2004. As lead consultant for several of our major clients he has helped to guide strategic planning of major capital developments and . His work producing major bids for clients both for capital and revenue projects has resulted in significant grant successes.

Graham came to Charity Fundraising Ltd after a long career in the NHS, his most recent role being Capital Development Manager for a large Hospital Trust. In this post 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 large public sector organisations, capital development projects, business planning and 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.

Sarah Owen
Senior Fundraising Consultant

Sarah is a fully certified member of the Institute of Fundraising and has worked with the voluntary sector since 2004, including direct work in the youth and international development sectors. Sarah has extensive bid writing experience. As our senior tender writer, she has achieved substantial contract funding for Charity Fundraising Ltd clients from UK Statutory and European Commission tender processes.

Sarah has a strong personal interest in International Development and holds a post graduate certificate in Development Management. With this specific sector knowledge, Sarah has a very good understanding of the particular requirements and evolving interests of international development funders. She also has experience in all aspects of community fundraising.