John Thompson

Director @Changing Business Limited

Consultant at Changing Business with significant experience of corporate-community partnership development, team management, account management, consumer/corporate PR, business analysis, process reviews, research, training, coaching, and the recruitment of fundraisers. Has made Fundraising Magazine\'s Top 50 Most Influential several times & worked with BitC to develop the Cause-related Marketing Guidelines. Has supported many successful pitches for high-value (to £4.5m) corporate-charity partnerships. Conducts in-depth corporate fundraising health-checks and provides support for strategy development, partnership marketing and account management logistics. Creator of #FirstFiver, the social media fundraising campaign that went viral, raised £12.5m and started a new fundraising method coined \"tenderaising\".Has successfully recruited key fundraising and marketing staff for many of the UK\'s largest organisations. Judge of Business Charity Awards 2019. Former Reuters, MS & L PR and Help the Aged.BLOG: http://fundraising.co.uk/author/johnthompson/Changing Business has provided a wide range of consultancy to clients including: Action for Children, Action for Kids, Age UK, Barnardo\'s, British Heart Foundation, Boots, Breast Cancer Care, British Red Cross, Carers UK, Cancer Research UK, Children in Crisis, Costa Coffee, Equifax, EveryChild, FARM-Africa, Global Radio, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children\'s Charity, Life Education, MAG, Mind, McDonald’s, Mouchel, NDCS, Plan UK, Refugee Council, RedR, Operation Smile, Samaritans, Save the Children, Scope, Sense, Shelter, The Restaurant Group, vInspired, Virgin Unite, Volunteer Reading Help, Welcome Break, Warner Leisure, Whitbread and Whizz-Kidz.