About Us

 

Our Advisory Group

Dr Elizabeth Nelson OBE Liz was the Founder and Chairman (until 1992) of Taylor Nelson Sofres plc, now the world's second largest market research company. She has been Chair of a merged NHS Trust in South West London with income of just over £100,000,000 and was a non-executive director The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. 1987-97. Liz served as Chief Executive of The Princess Royal Trust for Carers, and in 1997 she was awarded an OBE for services to Ecolabelling.
Justin Cooke Justin founded Top 10 UK interactive Agency Fortune Cookie in 1997. In 1998 the company became the first in the UK to develop content for BT's broadband trial; in 1999 Fortune Cookie was the first agency in the UK to release e-business software to the open source community. In 2000, Management Today called Justin "the Internet in human form". In April 2001 he was selected as one of New Media Age's 30 under 30 new media luminaries.
Adèle Bird Adèle commenced her career in the charity sector in the mid '80s working in arts administration and fundraising. She then spent almost a decade in recruitment in the charity sector, culminating in the post of Director of a specialist charity sector recruitment agency. After having twins Adèle returned to fundraising part time, alongside joining the team at CharityJOB.  She now heads up the fundraising function and UK office of an international NGO, while, with CharityJOB she is our Senior Adviser, providing CV and career counselling advice to candidates looking to work in, or develop their career in, the charity sector. In her spare time she has been a member of the Institute of Fundraising London Region where she was Treasurer. She is actively involved in her Church, working with the young people, cooking for the elderly and homeless, and fundraising.
John Hall John Hall is Director of the London Aimhigher: P4P Team, based at the Institute of Education in London. Aimhigher encourages progression to higher education from school, college and the workplace, especially by those with no family tradition of HE and from disadvantaged backgrounds. In his earlier career John has worked across the business, government and voluntary and community sectors as executive director of the London Pride Partnership, and with London-wide local government as Secretary of the London Boroughs Association and a secondee to the Government Office for London. He has also served on charitable and non-for-profit boards and trusts.