MARK JEFFERIES
MInstF (Cert)  CFRE
Managing Director

Mark Jefferies joined Craigmyle in 1980 from a commercial marketing background and became Managing Director in 1997. Since joining the consultancy, he has worked with more than 130 clients on a broad range of assignments encompassing capital campaigns, long-term fundraising, development, and marketing and communications strategies, with a particular focus on education and heritage. Increasingly, he is involved in helping organisations to build and develop in-house fundraising and marketing capacity. He is committed to the professional development of fundraising from both an organisational perspective, as a vital and potentially lucrative source of funding, and an individual point of view, as a challenging and highly satisfying career. A regular contributor of articles on fundraising, marketing and development to professional publications, he is a certificated member of the Institute of Fundraising and a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE).

GEOFF HOWARD
MInstF  CFRE
Director and Company Secretary

Geoff Howard joined Craigmyle in 1989 and became a director in 1998. He originally trained as a teacher and taught in London, before joining the Theatre Royal, Winchester, as Appeal Director and General Manager, and then becoming Campaign Project Co-ordinator at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton. At Craigmyle he has worked with a wide range of schools in the UK and overseas, as well as hospices, medical charities, churches and arts organisations. He is a member of the Institute of Fundraising and a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) and is a board member of the Association of Fundraising Consultants (of which Craigmyle was a founder).

GILL MOODY
MInstF  CFRE
Director

A classics and theology graduate of Girton College, Cambridge, Gill originally trained as a teacher and then worked for four years for the Church Urban Fund, firstly as London Appeal Director and then as National Campaign Director, overseeing completion of an £18 million fundraising campaign. As Bishops’ Officer for Urban Priority Areas for three years she was the Church of England’s policy adviser on inner cities, before joining the NHS to co-ordinate charitable appeals at the Leicester Royal Infirmary NHS Trust. She joined Craigmyle in 1998 and became a director in 2005. Gill works with national charities, hospitals, hospices, schools, universities and heritage organisations but she is especially responsible for the consultancy’s work with churches and faith charities and has also had substantial experience of congregational giving programmes and co-ordinated community arts mission initiatives. She is a member of the Institute of Fundraising and a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE).