Catherine Graham Harrison
Catherine is an independent consultant working as an adviser to a wide range of organisations in the not-for-profit sector. Since establishing her consultancy in 1994, her work has covered strategic reviews of existing organisations and projects; development plans for new organisations and projects; funding strategies and advice on, and management of, organisational change and development. She also works as a mentor and is known for her skilled handling of sensitive and complex issues with both individual and organisational clients.
Clients have included the Victoria and Albert Museum; the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation; a large family trust; the London Borough of Camden; the Camelot Foundation; Arts Council, England; WWF-UK; Tate Modern; the Community Fund and Amnesty International, in addition to individual senior managers.
Before becoming a consultant, she was Director of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and before that Community Affairs Director and a senior client manager at Citicorp. She started her career with a number of roles in the voluntary housing sector, the last being Deputy Director of a major London Housing Association. She is a trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund; a Board member of the Heritage Lottery Fund and a Governor and Trustee of Coram Family. She has an MA in Modern History from Oxford University.
Judith Symonds
Judith is an advisor in philanthropy and strategy for individuals, corporations, foundations, non-profit organisations and international institutions, based in Paris. She founded JCS International, a growing network of leading experts in philanthropy and institutional strategy and positioning. She has lived and worked in Europe for most of the past 25 years. Her professional experience includes: Senior Advisor for Civil Society Partnerships, United Nations World Food Programme (Rome); Executive Director, Future Harvest Foundation, an international network of agriculture research institutions (Washington, D.C.); President of the Foundation for the Development of Polish Agriculture (Warsaw); Director, Europe - Ruder Finn, a US public relations and public affairs firm (London and Paris); and as a consultant to Airbus, EDF, AXA, the OECD, Paribas, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the Polish Council of Ministers. She is a history and international affairs graduate of Stanford University and has served on several boards of directors, and as a lecturer at the Institut d’Etude Politique de Paris, teaching Citizen Participation and Political Decision-Making. She created and lectured in the seminar, New Philanthropy and Social Investing in the ESSEC MBA programme and is a lecturer at the University of Bologna’s Masters in International Studies in Philanthropy.
Griselda Bear
Griselda is an independent consultant advising organisations in the arts, educational and wider voluntary and charitable sectors. She specialises in devising and assisting with the implementation of development and business plans for organisational growth and new projects and initiatives. Recent clients have included large and established organisations like the London Film School, De Montfort University, Metropolitan Works (an initiative of London Metropolitan University), the Crafts Council, Craft Central workspaces, Artangel artists commissioning agency, Craft Potters Association and new start-ups such as Lecture List an internet based service, Vertigo film magazine, Cove Park residential arts centre in Scotland and the Work-Life Balance Trust.
Fundraising is generally at the heart of this work and Griselda Bear has extensive expertise in raising funds from all sectors – public sources regionally, nationally and internationally, trusts and foundations, companies and individuals – for both capital projects and revenue needs.
She has a philosophy degree from Kings College, London and post graduate business degree from the City University, London. Griselda Bear is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has been an External Examiner for the Department of Arts Policy and Management at the City University. Board appointments have included Trustee and Director of the British Museum Friends, where she also chaired the Fundraising Strategy Committee, and membership of the Advisory Boards of Hidden Art and Metropolitan Works.
Heather Graham
Heather is an independent consultant specialising in strategic events advice for non-profit organisations. Her background is in the arts and heritage sector and she has over 17 years’ experience heading the events teams at Tate and the British Museum. She was a member of the project team at Tate Modern from the earliest planning stages through to its opening
Since becoming a consultant in 2008, her clients have included the British Museum and The Art Fund and her work has involved interim management, a strategic review of events procedures, recruitment, an audit and assessment of funding benefits and the project management of cultivation and donor-led events.
A Development professional, Heather is known for being a pragmatic and diplomatic manager and for her ability to nurture profitable relationships with key stakeholders. She has a track record of integrating events programmes into existing organisations and making them central to organisational and fundraising strategies.
Lindsey Clarke
Lindsey is a freelance private PA and administrator. She has over 10 years administrative experience in the not for profit sector having worked as an Office Manager and Executive Assistant in various UK charities.