Our team
Julie Eason – Director
Julie is an experienced fundraiser who has held several Director of Fundraising, and interim Director of Fundraising roles, and raised millions for the charities she works for.
Julie has been consulting since 2014. Her specialism is grant and foundations fundraising and strategic, organisational development but Julie has experience across all types of fundraising.
Julie began her career in NUS as an elected member of the National Executive, and Vice-President. She then entered the Cabinet Office on the fast stream and was promoted off it within nine months to take up the position of Principal Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office, and later, Department for Communities and Local Government. From here Julie headed to Sydney where she served as Director of Housing & Social Policy for the New South Wales Department of Planning, Infrastructure and Natural Resources.
Julie returned to the UK Civil Service from Sydney, before moving into the voluntary sector in 2009 in a role managing a countywide partnership of charities providing advice, and later, as Director of Fundraising for a major advocacy provider. Julie has won a Government excellence in delivery award, and designed and funded a project that won the Charity Times Award for best use of technology in 2017.
Hannah Travers – Director
Hannah is an experienced fundraising consultant with over 15 years experience in the charitable sector establishing and delivering fundraising strategies to diversify and grow income. Having worked across a broad spectrum of causes as a Director of Fundraising she specialises in fundraising for the arts alongside medical research and young people and has been responsible for leading multi-million fundraising campaigns to secure and manage funding from the European Union, Department for Education, Cabinet Office, Arts Council, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Social Investment Business, NESTA, Garfield Weston Foundation and many more.
Max – Senior Consultant
Max graduated in Business Studies, trained in circus skills & performing arts at Bristol’s Fool Time, and consolidated his skills in arts and business with a PgDip with distinction in Arts Management. He moved to Northern Ireland in 1997 to coordinate an EU Peace funded project for Strabane Lifford Development Commission. Joining Derry’s Playhouse in 2000, Max raised some £15m for capital redevelopment, core, and programming costs. He became Interim CEO in 2018, working with the Board to repair the organisation’s financial and operational resilience. He joined Belfast’s contemporary opera production company Dumbworld in 2021 and is a Senior Consultant for The Arts Fundraisers.
Emily – Senior Consultant
Emily is an experienced fundraising consultant and trained facilitator, with over 20 years experience of leading and supporting dynamic organisations and projects across the cultural sector. She has experience of managing funds and funding portfolios at Arts Council England and local authorities, and has successfully led fundraising campaigns across a diverse range of contexts, including arts, heritage, film, festivals, museums, health and social care, education and the public realm. She has secured and managed funding from sources including Arts Council England, the BFI, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Youth Music, NESTA, European Union, the Department of Health, local authorities and business sponsorship.
Adrienne – Senior consultant
Adrienne has over 20 years’ experience in fundraising for a wide range of causes including international development, education, health, the environment and the arts. A former Director of Fundraising & Communications, she has successfully secured funds from a range of sources including trusts and foundations, public and media appeals (BBC Lifeline), government funders, corporate sponsors and awards. Adrienne also helps clients to develop and implement fundraising and marcomms strategies.
Pea – Consultant
Printmaker and charity furniture worker, Pea believes in social justice and the transformational power of making things. He has a keen interest in fundraising and the arts, having been lead artist on projects that have benefitted from funding, including the Big Steam Print with Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft. His passions include web design, typography, letterpress printmaking, glassblowing and metalworking.
He is proud to be a member of the trans community.
Leah – Apprentice
Leah is a community volunteer in Nairobi, Kenya. She works with Women and adolescent girls living in the urban slums and rural areas in the category of Young Women & Adolescent Girls (YWAGs). Leah advocates on Sexual Reproductive Health and Life Skills and is passionate about working with persons with disabilities in the fields of sexual and menstrual health, poverty and education. She is currently an apprentice for The Arts Fundraisers and working to become a skilled and experienced fundraiser.
