Emma Beeston Author

Emma Beeston has over 20 years' experience of the UK charity sector. She is an experienced philanthropy advisor and grant-maker and has held management roles with BBC Children in Need, Lloyds Bank Foundation and Comic Relief. She now works as a consultant advising philanthropic foundations and families on effective giving. Emma is a lecturer and trainer with CASS Business School, the University of Kent and the Association of Charitable Foundations. - Dr Beth Breeze has an international profile as an academic expert on philanthropy. She worked as a fundraiser and charity manager for a decade before co-founding the Centre for Philanthropy at the University of Kent in 2008 where she now leads a team conducting research and teaching courses on philanthropy and fundraising. She has written several books, including The New Fundraisers, which won the Skystone Partners Prize for Research on Fundraising and Philanthropy, The Philanthropy Reader (with Michael Moody) and Richer Lives: why rich people give published by Directory of Social Change (DSC). She has also written numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and practitioner-facing reports on philanthropy, fundraising and volunteering, and regularly provides media comment and speaks at charity sector conferences.