Andrew Peel is a freelance fundraiser and consultant with 16 years’ experience in the charity sector. He has held senior positions at Sightsavers International, the British Red Cross, the Giving Campaign and Help the Aged and as a consultant has worked with charities in a diverse range of sectors including: Health (with Diabetes UK, Malaria Consortium); Volunteering (CSV); Blindness and Disability (the Fred Hollows Foundation, Action For Kids) and Lifeboats (the RNLI). He specialises in interim management, creative development, strategic planning, mentoring and in delivering impactful corporate fundraising proposals, pitches and campaigns.
He has brokered and managed a wide range of major domestic and international corporate partnerships, including Tesco Charity of the Year 1998 for Help the Aged and Sightsavers’ ground-breaking $6m global alliance with Standard Chartered Bank – the objective of which was to deliver one million sight restorations in three years.
Andrew is a regular speaker on corporate responsibility, fundraising and corporate partnerships and wrote Managing Corporate Fundraising in the 21st Century and Template for a Corporate Fundraising Strategy – chapters in the DSC/CAF/Institute of Fundraising’s Corporate Fundraising Guide.
Andrew is a member of the Institute of Fundraising and is an NCVO-approved fundraising consultant. He received the Institute of Fundraising’s Professional Fundraiser of the Year Award in 1997.