Following a career fundraising and marketing for humanitarian charities, Jamie became Chief Executive of international development organisation, Scottish Love in Action, in 2021.
Jamie graduated with the Diploma in Fundraising with distinction in 2019.
He previously served on the Scottish Individual Giving Special Interest Group Committee and on the Professional Development Committee. Jamie was elected Chair of Chartered Institute of Fundraising Scotland in 2022. Read his blog.
Marie trained as a chartered accountant before joining the fundraising profession in 2017. She became Head of Business Development and Grants at Quarriers in 2022 and is currently working towards the Diploma in Fundraising.
She has served as a committee member of the Scottish Trusts, Statutory and Foundations Special Interest Group committee since 2021 and as Co-Chair since 2022.
Isla has fundraised, volunteered and campaigned since she was 15 after discovering Amnesty International in a modern studies class and set up a letter writing group. She worked for Poppyscotland, becoming Deputy Head of Fundraising. Over 12 years she helped to run Scotland’s largest public fundraising appeal and developed the learning outreach project #PoppyBud.
In 2021 she moved to Cerebral Palsy Scotland as Head of Fundraising and Communications. She is passionate about developing fundraisers, enabling continuous professional development and mentoring.
Isla has been a Chartered Institute of Fundraising volunteer since 2008. She joined the Scottish Fundraising Conference committee in 2014, becoming Chair of the Conference in 2023.
Loretta is a senior fundraising leader whose career spans Cancer Research UK, UNICEF, Action For Children and NSPCC. She became Head of Partnerships and Fundraising at Exercism (pronounced X-cism) in 2022.
She has significant experience of Learning and Development, is a qualified business coach, and loves talking at conferences.
Loretta serves on Chartered Institute of Fundraising Learning and Development committee.
Darren has been a proud fundraiser for over 13 years and a very proud charity volunteer for even longer. He joined Rock Trust as Assistant Director of Income Generation and Property Services in 2022 having previously specialised in sole fundraising for a variety of causes.
He used to be Chair of the Scottish Corporate Special Interest Group, led on training for the Scotland Professional Development committee and has spoken many times at Scottish Fundraising Conference. He has a passion for ensuring that fundraising is an accessible, safe and healthy career for everyone.
Joining the Executive Team in September 2023, Vanessa is passionate about flying the flag for our incredible sector and all the opportunities it presents for a vibrant, rewarding and varied career to the next generation of fundraisers.
Vanessa began her fundraising career in 1995 with ActionAid in London, working as Account Manager in their in-house telephone fundraising team NTT. The next 12 years were spent as Account Director with Burnett Associates (London) and Capital Communications Group (Edinburgh), delivering successful fundraising campaigns for charities including RNLI, Comic Relief, Sense Scotland, Save the Children, SSPCA, Diabetes UK and Breast Cancer Now (Wear it Pink).
In 2012, Vanessa gained her Diploma in Fundraising Management from the CIOF Academy.
Since 2008, Vanessa has led award winning fundraising and communications teams at MS Society Scotland, Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland, Alzheimer Scotland and Age Scotland. In September 2023, as Head of Fundraising and Communications at SiMBA (the baby loss charity), Vanessa and her team won ‘Fundraising Team of the Year’ at the Chartered Institute of Fundraising Scotland Awards for delivering an Urgent Appeal which ultimately saved the charity from closure just 6 months before.
Marion has over 18 years of experience in the third sector starting in an admin role within the fundraising support team at CRUK before moving on to becoming a Volunteer Manager. Marion spent 13 years at Maggie's as a Fundraising Manager and covered three centres during her time, giving her experience working on campaigns to open two new centres and all fundraising income streams to help with running costs for the centres. She is currently working at Parkinson's UK Scotland as a Community Fundraiser covering the East of Scotland and the Highlands.
Marion has a TQUK Level 2 Certificate in Event Planning through West College Scotland which she completed in 2021 and completed her Certificate in Fundraising Management with the Chartered Institute back in 2010.
Erika has worked or volunteered in the charity sector for nearly 10 years, having previously worked in a communications role for a Scottish university. When she found fundraising, she fell in love and never looked back.
She has a soft spot for amateur dramatics and spent 5 years on the committee for the Edinburgh Gilbert & Sullivan Society, where she was responsible for marketing and PR and served as Vice-President for 2 years.
Erika is an enthusiastic advocate for professional fundraising and loves encouraging those who are new to the sector to consider a career in fundraising. She has experience across individual giving, legacy, major donor and trust income streams as well as charity marketing and communications.
From the get-go Eilish was drawn to working within the third sector, originally volunteering at a charity in Haddington supporting people with Down’s Syndrome and then pushing a tea trolley round St Columba’s Hospice while studying history at the University of Edinburgh.
Fast forward several years and she started working for Winning Leishman Fundraising Consultants where she learned how to fundraise for a wide variety of clients, focusing on specialist trust and foundation applications. During that time, she completed the Management Centre Arts Fundraising Course.
She has worked with many charities, including being the Interim Director of Development at the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh.
A Full Member of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising she served as Deputy Chair of the CIOF Corporate SIG Group.
Her remit is to the Lead.
Following a career in operational leadership, Flutura joined fundrasing professionals in 2014 as Head of Funding Development with Scottish Refugee Council.
She is a passionate human right advocate and believes that fundrasing plays a key role in linking those wo want to make a change with those who can.
Formerly, as a medical doctor, Flutura engaged in transformative international health programmes led by European Commission. In the UK, she worked with several charities including British Red Cross and Refugee Action before joining Scottish Refugee Council, where she has been part of the senior leadership team since 2011.