Consultant & Campaigner

I advise on campaigning, fundraising, conservation and development.

I consult to churches and cathedrals on project management, options appraisals, conservation and fundraising.

For eight years I was Secretary to the Church Buildings Council and the Cathedral Fabric Commission for England. I led a team which secured £40 million in new money for repairs under the First World War Centenary Cathedral Fabric Repair Fund and a total of £55 million for the Church Roofs Fund.  Working with others in telecommunications and transport we achieved a private member’s bill, the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 to curb metal theft and I oversaw church chair and parish church art competitions to raise design standards.

As a Governor and Chair of the Estates Committee at Haileybury we commissioned a conversation management plan and estate masterplan for an ambitious development of a major school and the site of England’s first Greek Revival buildings by William Wilkins and landscaped by Humphry Repton. In 2024, we opened an ambitious new science research facility, SciTech, built around a cloister with a listed building on one side.

As a Trustee of the Priory of St John I chaired the Heritage Committee where we are engaged in a lighting project in the 12th-century crypt of the Hospitaller’s church in Clerkenwell.

Since 2021 I have been a Lay Canon of Saint Deiniol’s Cathedral, Bangor, Northwest Wales.

I charge a daily rate for my consultancy services. For a proposal please contact me