Beth Upton
CEO & Founder
Beth Upton has been a professional fundraiser since 2002 when she joined Macmillan’s corporate fundraising team. Over her career she has worked in most fundraising disciplines and specialised in high-value fundraising from both trusts and major donors. She studied her professional fundraising qualifications at the Open University and more recently passed (with merit) the Certificate in Philanthropic Psychology at the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy. Beth qualified (ILM Level 7) as a Coach in March 2023.
Rachal Minchinton
New Business Manager
Rachal Minchinton is a senior fundraising professional and has been delivering income from a variety of sources for 20 years. Rachal has expertise in relationship building and creating solutions to the challenges faced by fundraising teams of all sizes. She specialises in high value giving, and statutory funding, and has experience in strategic planning and evaluation and research. Rachal enjoys working in partnership with organisations to find solutions which work for them.
Kitty Hazell
Associate Consultant
For 24 years Kitty has had a successful career in fundraising, soliciting, and closing donations worth millions of pounds for charitable causes.
Her experience includes managing relationships with Philanthropists around the world from Canada to Thailand to Australia and many countries in between. She has secured meetings and delivered support from CEOs and Chairs of some of the largest companies worldwide such as Morgan Stanley, Barclays Bank, and Bacardi.
Kitty’s warm personality and ability to connect with people has allowed her to build successful working relationships with foreign dignitaries, well-known celebrities, Academy Award winning directors, sports and TV personalities.
As a freelance consultant, Kitty thrives on advising C-suites, Boards and Fundraising teams on how to ensure their organisation is prepared to manage high-level giving programmes.
Jane Redman
Associate Consultant
Jane has worked in the charity sector for over 25 years, across corporate, trust, major donor and capital appeal fundraising, from beginner to Director of Fundraising and Communications level.
She specialises in high value giving, capital appeals and strategic planning. She loves supporting teams to be the best they can be. Jane is passionate about helping organisations at leadership and Board level to fully appreciate fundraising and its centrality to the sustainability of an organisation.
As a qualified ICF coach and mentor she supports people to unlock their potential and find a way forward to achieve their goals.
Jane is also a Trustee of Air Ambulance Kent Surrey and Sussex.
We work with a team of outstanding fundraising practitioners as well as consultants, each carefully vetted and hand-picked for their skills, who are then matched to each client’s needs. Averaging 22 years experience each, they have raised more than £149 million for charities between them.