This year's panel of expert judges are some of the most influential people in the fundraising world. In Spring 2012 they will meet to consider this year's nominations. Click on their photographs below for brief biographies.


Formerly Director of Fundraising for WWF-UK and the British Red Cross, Margaret is a Director of THINK Consulting Solutions, specialising in global and national fundraising strategy, supporter journey, individual giving and visitor-based membership.

Pauline Broomhead is CEO of the FSI, a charity that is the largest provider of free capacity building services to small charities, helping them to become more efficient and effective.

Adrian has been the Marketing Director at Dogs Trust since 1994. He was previously the Head of Fundraising at the BUAV.

Dylan Carroll is the Senior Gifts in Wills officer for Barnardo's. He is responsible for managing Barnardo's regional legacy marketing activities and national Free Will Scheme. He was the 2011 recipient of the IoF award for 'Best Up-And-Coming Fundraiser'.

Paul joined Age UK as Fundraising Director in March 2010. Previous to this he was with Cancer Research UK for four years firstly as Legacy Fundraising Director and then more lately as High Value Relationships Director.
Before CRUK, he was Managing Director of Target Direct, a not-for-profit specialist direct marketing agency. He has worked in charity marketing and fundraising for over 20 years.
He is also Vice-Chair of the Board of the International Fundraising Congress and has completed his MBA.

Stephen George is Director of Fundraising at Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre's, having previously worked at the NSPCC as Development Director for Legacies and as Director of Community Appeals during the Full Stop Campaign. Stephen has worked at Unicef and Scope and is chairman of Remember a Charity.

Nick Georgiadis has been manacled to Cancer Research UK for 10 years where he's now Head of Direct Giving and Legacy Marketing.

Julie is an IoF Trustee, Chair of the IoF Membership Committee and a London Region Fundraising Mentor. Since 2003, she's been an active fundraiser for a wide variety of local and national charities.

Paul Jackson-Clark is a fundraiser with 18 years experience in the not-for-profit sector and 3 years in the commercial sector. He has worked on capital appeals, as a hospice fundraiser, set up successful Payroll Giving, Telephone Appeals, Direct Marketing and Database teams, and is an enthusiastic overseas challenger. He cut his fundraising teeth at Marie Curie Cancer Care, had been a Trustee of NurseAid since May 2007 and has been the Director of Fundraising at Parkinson's UK since April 2009.


As Chief Executive of the FRSB, it is real privilege to serve the charity sector and help the sector improve fundraising standards and build greater public trust and confidence.

Matthew is Chief Executive of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Previously he was Marketing and Supporter Care Director at Christian Aid. He is also a Trustee of The Children's Society.

Paul has been a Director of Fundraising for Build Africa and Action Medical Research and Chief Executive of Missing People and Mentor UK. He has expertise across the board in all fundraising disciplines with 25 years expertise so understands what it takes to merit success in fundraising.

David is the Chief Executive of Attend, formerly the National Association of Hospital and Community Friends. Last year his member groups raised in excess of £41m through their local community fundraising.

During her five years at CLIC Sargent, the UK's leading children's cancer charity, Julie has worked on many of the country's largest corporate charity partnerships and managed the record-breaking partnership with Tesco which raised over £7.6million.
