Amadi to take over from Pegram at NSPCC

Fundraising | 9 Sep 2009

Paul Amadi will become director of fundraising at the NSPCC when Giles Pegram retires in April.

Amadi (pictured), who is currently director of fundraising at the RNIB and chairman of the Institute of Fundraising, will start at the Society in January so he has a three-month handover from Pegram who is retiring after 30 years in post.

Pegram said: “It was not an easy decision. Paul had some very stiff competition from some very senior people.

“Andrew Flanagan (chief executive) interviewed him three times and decided he was the right person to fill my shoes. And the chairman also interviewed him.”

He added: “I’m thrilled to bits to pass on what I have done at the NSPCC to Paul as I know he will build on it.”

Unusually, Pegram was involved in the interview process for his own successor.

He explained: “It made my leaving much easier because it meant I had a role in choosing my successor and allowed me to feel confident that this person I was interviewing will do a good job.”

Some senior fundraisers 'unappointable'

But Pegram told Charity News Alert he was shocked by the approach of certain other high-profile applicants during the interview process: “Some of the people who are the biggest names in the sector applied and I think were absolutely unappointable because during the interview process they never once mentioned donors or children.

“There are people who regard fundraising as a process you go through and they have no sense of the relationship with the donor or the end result for the beneficiary.

“I think it is very sad indeed that people like that can get very senior positions.”

A headhunting firm was brought in to ensure a strong field of applicants and Pegram said he and the director of HR were asked to select one candidate from outside the voluntary sector for interview.

He said: “I had grave misgivings about that but we did it and they absolutely did not match up.”

Directory: Institute of Fundraising | National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) | Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)

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