The Team
Between us we have over 50 years' experience in trust fundraising and prospect research
Director
Stuart Sherriff
Stuart has been trust fundraising since 2001 and has been involved with the CIOF Trust SIG since 2003 (including Chair from 2005-11 / 2016-19); he remains on the board today.
Stuart helped draft the Codes of Conduct for Trust Fundraising, holds a MSc in Fundraising from Cass Business School and is a trustee of the London Freemasons' Charity.
Prospect Researcher
Finbar Cullen
Finbar has been a prospect researcher for over 20 years. He was senior researcher at Factary, and as editor of New Trust Update.
​Finbar was an associate of International Fundraising Consultancy and Action Planning, and wrote a Blog on the UK Fundraising website. Finbar is widely respected as one of the best prospect researchers in the UK.
Designer
Dan Barrett
Dan has been a graphics designer for over two decades and has produced all the publications for newcharities.org.
Dan also works with other organisations to provide design and branding materials for a wide range of customers across the charity and not for profit world, corporate, and particularly the aviation sector.
About
newcharities.org helps professional fundraisers find new prospects, helping you turn prospects into partners.
More than 1,000 new grant makers set up in England and Wales each year. We research them all and alert our subscribers.
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Around a third of new grant makers are picked up through prospect research, listed in the monthly Trust Lists. The top 100 make it into our annual Top Trusts. How many could be supporting your charity this year?