Who's Who

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.

This section provides short profiles of some of the individuals who help to make civil society the unique and dynamic sector that it is.

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Robert Ashton

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,...

George Matafonov

Founder, ThankUBank
George Matafonov is the founder of ThankUbank, the world’s first social capital bank. He is also the author of Fire & Water: Market Morality and Civil Society and runs the Moral Compass website,...

Ciara Bosworth

Head of OneCRM, British Heart Foundation
Ciara is responsible for leading the implementation and running of BHFs central CRM system; bringing together multiple disparate systems and streamlining the organisations approach to supporter communication...

Ian Allsop

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...

John Tate

Accountant and entrepreneur
John Tate is a qualified accountant and entrepreneur. He is a columnist for Charity Finance, special adviser to the CFDG and a visiting lecturer at Cass Business School's Centre for Charity Effectiveness....

Diane Sim

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...

Alexander Swallow

Chief executive, Small Charities Coalition
Alex Swallow is chief executive of the Small Charities Coalition and founder of Young Charity Trustees.He is previous co-vice chair at an Islington charity, Centre 404, where he remains as trustee. His...