Bruce Tait, Managing Director
Bruce has worked as a Fundraiser for 20 years, prior to which he was a Public Relations Consultant working for a range of voluntary, commercial and public sector organisations. His Fundraising career began at Scottish Opera followed by Director of Fundraising posts at Aberlour Child Care Trust, Bighearted Scotland and the Scottish Society for Autism. Bruce is a former Chair of the Institute of Fundraising (Scotland) and has spoken on Fundraising at conferences around the world. He is a Trustee of the Macrobert Art Centre and Scottish Outdoor Education Centres, and a Board Advisor with the Scottish Youth Parliament.
Tel: 07743 801397 or email
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Eilish McDowell, Director
Eilish has been actively involved with the not-for-profit sector for 13 years initially as a volunteer fundraiser with Marie Curie Cancer Care and for the last ten years as a fundraising consultant developing fundraising campaigns for a wide variety of clients and sectors including the National Library of Scotland, Dance Base, The Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust and One Parent Families Scotland. She was also a Specialist Advisor to the Scottish Arts Council. Following on from her initial volunteer work with Marie Curie, Eilish was a fundraiser for Edinburgh and Lothians Clubs for Young People and sat on First Hand's Management Committee for a number of years.
Tel: 07841 996127 or email
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Joan Jack, Director
Joan has worked in or with the not for profit sector for over 20 years. Working with Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) Joan acquired and managed a portfolio of high-end charity shops. Joan has been a community fundraiser with one of Scotland's leading child care charities, Aberlour Child Care Trust and for two years led a capital appeal for The Brae, Dundee Riding for the Disabled Association. In a voluntary capacity Joan has been heavily involved with the Children's Panel for Tayside and the Children's Panel Advisory Committee. A large part of her remit with the Children's Panel was recruitment, monitoring and training of panel members. She is currently a committee member of the Institute of Fundraising Scotland Trusts, Statutory and Foundations Special Interest Group.
Tel: 07921 703346 or email
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Sally McNaught, Associate
Sally has more than 12 years first-hand fundraising experience covering both project-specific and revenue fundraising. Having begun her fundraising career in higher education with alumni programmes, she then went on to launch and grow the membership programme for the Botanics in Edinburgh. This involved elements of event-based fundraising, PR, marketing, project-specific appeals and also the recruitment, training and mentoring of teams of volunteers.
Sally will use her varied experience to steward and grow the Charity Career Start Programme (providing people wanting to begin a career in fundraising with an opportunity to gain practical, hands-on experience) and also to develop the Trustee Recruitment Service (matching experienced fundraising professionals with charities needing to broaden the expertise of their Board members).
Contact Sally by email at
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or phone 07941 851 589
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