Andrew Peel

Andrew started his fundraising career at the age of five, collecting Christian Aid envelopes door-to-door, and developing a very thick skin in the process. He went on to hold senior fundraising positions at Help the Aged, the British Red Cross and Sightsavers and, as a consultant, has worked with a wide range of charities including Guide Dogs, Diabetes UK, Maggie's, the RNLI, the British Heart Foundation, Home-Start UK, Kamelia Kids and The Saltdean Lido Trust, as well as 50+ hospices and NHS Hospital Trusts.

 

Andrew has a track record of brokering and managing major corporate relationships, including Help the Aged's 1998 Tesco 'Charity of the Year' partnership, and the global eye care programme, ‘Seeing is Believing’, the long-running partnership between Sightsavers and Standard Chartered Bank. Originally established in 2003 to restore the sight of one million people, this initiative eventually raised $100 million and impacted over 200 million people in 38 countries.

 

Andrew specialises in trust and corporate fundraising, fundraising reviews, capital appeals, and in writing impactful funding applications, proposals, pitches and strategies. A regular speaker on fundraising, Andrew has also written chapters for the last three editions of the Directory of Social Change’s Corporate Fundraising and Partnerships guide and both editions of the DSC's Community Fundraising guide.

 

A Full Member of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising, Andrew received the Institute's Professional Fundraiser of the Year Award in 1997.

 

In his spare time, and when he's not beachcombing, making driftwood sculptures, driving his Mini or following Brighton & Hove Albion, Andrew's a trustee of a grant-making trust which funds women’s and children’s charities in the City of Brighton and Hove.

 

 

Helen Peel

Helen has over 30 years’ experience in the voluntary sector - having worked for Help the Aged, the National Centre for Volunteering, Parents for Children, The Queen Alexandra Hospital Home and The Citizenship Foundation.

 

As a consultant and freelancer, she specialises in trusts, foundations and statutory fundraising and works with a range of organisations including Whoopsadaisy, a Brighton-based charity working with children and families living with cerebral palsy.

 

Other clients have included St John's School and College in Brighton; St Catherine's Hospice in Crawley, Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice and MuchLoved, the memorial tribute charity.

 

Helen is also a Full Member of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising.

 

When not fundraising, Helen's passions are watching live music, hunting down bargains in Brighton's many charity and vintage shops, and walking by the sea.

  

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David Hanley - Associate Consultant

Katy Dore - Associate Consultant 

Natalie Brook - Associate Consultant