TFA was founded by Arun Sharma & Justin Leahy in 2015. Between them their extensive experience in both the commercial and not-for-profit sector are backed up by a team of experts across every area of income generation, communications and operations. Please do get in touch to speak with us.
Founders
CEO & Co-founder
Arun Sharma
Arun’s experience stretches across both commercial and not-for-profit sectors. Following a career in the private sector, he held fundraising positions at Marie Curie, Shelter and Age UK. In 2013, Arun joined the ITV CSR team, where he helped grow their philanthropic giving. Having worked as a fundraiser and funder, Arun set up TFA Limited with Justin, in 2015 and now works closely with companies, NGO’s and Government Departments providing strategic and operational support to help them strengthen their philanthropic activity, talent development and digital engagement.
arun@tfaltd.co.uk
☎ 0333 4441189 | 07841 644828
Strategy Director & Co-founder
Justin Leahy
Justin has a commercial background and was part of the team at Oliver Wyman developing their positioning offer. His experience cuts across business strategy, positioning, business development and communications. Since founding TFA with Arun, Justin has been supporting not-for-profit organisations with strategic and operational support to enable whole organisation to fundraise effectively. Justin is also a strong facilitator and helps not-for-profit teams build consensus around key issues such as business strategy, organisational positioning, fundraising and theory of change.
Justin@tfaltd.co.uk
☎ 0333 4441189 | 07855 754879
Rebecca Millburn
CoMMUNITY & Events
Rebecca has more than 15 years of experience in fundraising and management, spanning both not-for-profits and consultancy.
Having worked for charities such as British Heart Foundation, Save the Children, Marie Curie, and the ICR, she is now a consultant for TFA. In addition to her strategic and operations fundraising knowledge, Rebecca provides extensive knowledge in the delivery of TFA’s running and cycling events and virtual event portfolio for both charities and companies, plus manages the planning and delivery of the design and digital communications around them.
Sonya Timms
major Gift & philanthropy
Sonya brings 25 years of experience in high-value fundraising, leadership and strategy. Her practical approach to fundraising and high-value income development. Having led successful Philanthropy and Special Events teams at Comic Relief, Marie Curie, NSPCC, and Magic Bus UK, Sonya has grown major donor programmes, patron engagement and giving, plus developed long-term strategies and sustainable income. Her expertise in leveraging major donors, engaging trustee boards and senior stakeholders and exceptional relationship management has uplifted income from philanthropists, trusts and foundations, special events committees and corporate partners.
James Spears
individual giving
James has over 16 years of experience in fundraising and marketing. After a number of senior fundraising roles at Shelter, James went on to be Assistant Director at Clic Sargent.
James oversaw significant change projects, managed a multi-million-pound budget, and was responsible for £10m in annual income. As a consultant, James’ main focus is individual giving, team management, donor management, and data analysis. James uses his extensive problem-solving and supporter-focused approach to add value and drive growth to help achieve stronger results for donors and beneficiaries.
Hannah Hockin
Corporate & Social Value
Hannah Hockin is a Social Value and Engagement Specialist. She is experienced in developing award-winning social impact campaigns and forging strategic partnerships.
She is passionate about using her expertise to help businesses and charities achieve their social impact goals, is a skilled communicator and relationship builder, and is known for her ability to engage stakeholders and employees at all levels. Hannah is also Chair of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising’s Corporate Special Interest Group. This group supports peers to network, professionalise, and develop the field of corporate fundraising.
Kate Sharma
Copywriting & comms
Kate’s experience cuts across all areas of communications. As a former director of communications, she’s as comfortable liaising with the press, writing copy for a newsletter to helping organisations develop a consistent tone of voice.
For the past eight years, Kate has helped a range of charities, companies, and social enterprises to develop their story and effectively engage with a whole range of audiences. Kate frequently works alongside our team of web developers, designers, and video producers to plan and deliver creative projects for a variety of our clients.
Rodger Holden
COMMERCIAL & Partnerships
Rodgers’s experience includes 25 years working in the Third sector. He is a highly experienced income generator, new product development, account management, marketing communications, re-branding, and staff management.
Rodger is a commercial thinker in the not-for-profit sector with a goal’s orientated approach. He has a very creative and practical, hand’s-on, collaborative – way of working and wants to make a difference but ensure results. He has worked for organisations such as Shelter, Crimestoppers and developed partnerships with M&S and the Police Force.
Caroline Szumilewicz
professional coaching
Caroline has more than 20 years of experience in HR in the Insurance & Banking sectors. As a personal and professional coach, Caroline is a member of the International Coaching Federation and clients include Marie Curie, Coram & Surrey Wildlife Trust.
She supports clients with thinking, clarity, accountability and making important decisions about work-life balance. She also develops strategies to support growth, restructure & transformational change. Her value is to enable leaders to create great places to work through a focus on employee engagement, talent development and organisational design.
Sabina Bunger
professional coaching
Sabina’s career started in the Tech Industry. After working for 20 years for companies such as Global Radio and GCap Media, Sabina has retrained as a Professional and Personal Coach. Her training is fully accredited by the ICF, EMCC, and the Association for Coaching. Read more about Sabina.
Sabina supports individuals with building their existing skills, clear thinking, and finding their blind spots. Her simple, but effective approach is calm yet challenging. She creates a safe space for her clients, to explore their thoughts but face the challenge of what still holds true, in order to make decisions about what can be let go of in busy professional & personal lives.
Helen Strachan
Statutory, trusts & big Lottery
Helen specialises in bid management. Her experience includes supporting corporates to win contracts and a decade at employment charity Tomorrow’s People, where she secured £6 million of the public sector and foundation funding. She enjoys working closely with organisations to understand their achievements and ambitions and creating compelling bids that effectively demonstrate the excellence of their work to funders. Helen’s ability to research and grasp new sectors rapidly has really helped her to secure funds for a variety of sectors including employment, education, health, social work and justice.
Jane Tingle
trusts & foundations
Jane has 20 years’ experience of raising funds from grant-giving bodies in the not-for-profit sector. After heading up the trusts and foundation team at Addaction, she spent a decade at Farm Africa, during which time she quadrupled income from trusts and foundations and managed a team responsible for raising £7 million from UK, US and European trusts and foundations. Jane has great attention to detail, coupled with an instinctive flair for crafting stories and summarising complex information, has seen Jane raise funds for prisons, conservation areas, women’s & young people’s mental health, agricultural and adults with learning difficulties.
Molly Morrison
International grants
Molly is an experienced bid writer with extensive international experience. Being someone who is multilingual (French and Chinese) and project management professional with experience in designing and implementing projects with social impact in North America, Africa and Asia. Her core competencies include project financing, written communications, project design, project management. Molly is also a communications specialist with more than seven years of experience in communications, grant writing, donor relations and consulting for international organisations, NGOs and social enterprises.