According to the Charity Commission, the charity sector 
employs 754,411 full-time equivalent staff and uses the services of an estimated 2.2 million volunteers, including more than 842,000 trustees, though there are still 21,400 trustee positions unfilled.
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Head of public sector, charities and not-for-profit, Spence & Partners
David is a director at Spence & Partners Actuaries and Dalriada Trustees. He performs the role of a professional pension scheme trustee and specialises in providing pensions advice to charities and...
Rowena Lewis is director of fundraising at Gingerbread, a post she took up in February 2012. She was one of the inaugural Fellows on the Clore Social Leadership Programme, in 2010, researching the...
Senior manager (VAT), BDO
Colin leads the provision of VAT advice to BDO’s charity and not-for-profit clients. He has 20+ years experience in indirect tax both at HMRC and in practice, and has worked with a whole range...
Founder, Good Innovation
Giles Pegram is an independent fundraising consultant. Prior to taking up consultancy work, Pegram was director of fundraising at NSPCC from which post he retired in April 2010 after 30 years at the charity....
Consultant and social entrepreneur
Robert Ashton is a social entrepreneur, campaigner and bestselling business author. His 12th book, How to be a Social Entrepreneur,was published by Capstone in October 2010. He works with grassroots organisations,...
Managing director, ChangeBase
John Tate is a qualified accountant and has spent the last 20 years working in the IT industry. He is a columnist for Charity Finance, IT adviser to the CFDG and a visiting lecturer at Cass Business School's...
Freelance columnist
Ian Allsop was editor of Charity Finance magazine from 2004 until early 2009. He also edited Association Manager and prior to this worked for accountants BDO Stoy Hayward. Since leaving Charity Finance...
Chief executive, Social Enterprise UK from January 2010
Peter Holbrook has been the chief executive of Social Enterprise UK, the national organisation for social enterprises (previously the Social Enterprise Coalition) since January 2010.In 2001 he founded the...
Finance director, Friends of the Elderly
Rui Domingues is the finance director at Friends of the Elderly.He spent a number of years training in the commercial sector before pursuing a career in the not-for-profit sector. His business experience...
Nick Ivey joined Bates Wells & Braithwaite in 1997 as partner and joint head of property development. He specialises in estate and property portfolio acquisition and management, and has written several...
Freelance consultant
Diane Sim is a freelance consultant specialising in research-based projects in financial and professional services. For Charity Finance magazine she has authored the recent annual surveys on banking, fund...
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