The Fundraising Agency (TFA) was founded by Arun Sharma in 2015 after a career in both the private and not-for-profit sectors. Click here to get in touch and speak with us.
Arun Sharma
CEO & Founder
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 community and corporate across the ITV brands.
Working on initiatives that raised more than £20m, such as Text Santa, The Rugby World Cup, Soccer Aid, and programmes such as This Morning, GMB & ITV News he gained the experience to see how both fundraisers and funders work together.
With that experience of having worked as a fundraiser and funder, Arun set up TFA Limited 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 is passionate about supporting fundraisers and has recently launched a new recruitment, training, and coaching service for charities and fundraisers.
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.
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.
Sonya Timms
DIRECTOR
Sonya brings 28 years experience in high value fundraising and leading successful fundraising teams, securing six and seven figure gifts from philanthropists, companies, trusts and family foundations at small, medium and large national and international charities and NGOs including Comic Relief, Marie Curie, NSPCC, Magic Bus UK, Little Village and The Circle. She has grown major donor programmes, patron engagement and giving, development boards, special events portfolios and developed long-term high value strategies for sustainable income. Sonya provides board and senior leadership training on organisational readiness for philanthropy, relationship management, the supporter journey and effective stewardship.
Phil Wormley
DIRECTOR
Phil has over 20 years of experience in fundraising and marketing and has held fundraising roles at NSPCC, National Autistic Society, Barnardo’s, Marie Curie and Woking & Sam Beare Hospice.
Phil is a fundraising all-rounder and has a strong track record of developing a variety of fundraising plans, strategies and great partnerships.
He uses his extensive problem-solving and supporter-focused approach to add value and drive growth to help achieve stronger results for donors and beneficiaries.
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.