Paul Amadi
Paul Amadi became NSPCC’s director of fundraising in January 2010. Previously he was group director of fundraising for Royal National Institute for Blind People. At the beginning of 2011 Amadi stepped down as chair of trustees for the Institute of Fundraising after two and a half years.
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Mike Parker is to leave the NSPCC at the end of this month, after being appointed interim director of fundraising in March.
The Institute of Fundraising has extended the tenure of its chair, Mark Astarita, for another year.
Amadi departs NSPCC for top fundraising job at Diabetes UK 2
Paul Amadi has quit as director of fundraising at the NSPCC to take up the same position at Diabetes UK in the new year.
Four arrested and bags seized in police raid on collection bag crime ring 1
A police raid on an Essex depot has disrupted an international crime network which is believed to have stolen hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of charity bag collections as the police reaffirm bogus and stolen collections are a “major priority”.
Concerns raised that BHF criticism of commercial collections damages public confidence 5
The British Heart Foundation’s attack on commercial charity collections yesterday has prompted some concern that public confidence in house-to-house collections could be undermined at a time when charities are desperate for cash.
There are more new names, more women and a hell of a lot of social media stars. Why, then, does this year’s Fundraising 50 Most Influential feel so familiar? Celina Ribeiro reports.
Paul Amadi suggests PFRA and FRSB should merge back into the Institute 6
Paul Amadi, director of fundraising at the NSPCC, has suggested that the number of regulatory and representative bodies in the charity sector is cumbersome and expensive, and called for the sector bodies to consider merging.
Does the charity sector need quite so many bodies representing and regulating its activities? Paul Amadi thinks not.






