Fiona Fountain FCIPR MInstF - Partner

Fiona Fountain is the principal partner of the company. She has worked in the field of communications and fundraising for over twenty five years for commercial, statutory and voluntary organisations.

She is a member of the Institute of Fundraising (InstF) and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and has served on a number of committees for both bodies. She has been a Council Member of the CIPR and the Vice-Chair of the Business Services and Revenue Committee. She was admitted into Fellowship in February 2003. In 1991, she co-founded Fifth Estate - a CIPR special interest group for charity and voluntary sector practitioners. She chaired this group for many years. She has also served on the Institute of Fundraising's Public Affairs Committee.

Fiona is an experienced lobbyist with excellent media skills - having worked as a freelance journalist and feature writer, concurrently with her in-house posts. She is still a weekly correspondent for the Press Association (now called PA News Ltd). She has written features on many aspects of the voluntary sector and other diverse topics for PA, for many women's magazines and for a number of voluntary sector journals. In recent years she has been a contributor to the National Fundraising Convention, CHASE and the Professional Fundraising Show. She has spoken at numerous conferences and seminars on a wide range of issues, including the role PR has to play in support of fundraising. She is currently Chair of Trinity Theatre and Arts Centre.

Ray Cain MCIPR - Partner

Ray Cain is the practice manager and has been a partner with the company since it was established. In that time he has worked on all agency accounts - from developing full public relations and fundraising strategies to implementation and evaluation. He is a full member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. 

An experienced copywriter, he can produce accurate media materials within tight budgets and timetables. He has designed, written and produced a range of annual report & accounts, surveys, leaflets, e-newsletters, websites and other promotional literature. He has experience as a freelance journalist and has been a regular contributor to a number of national magazines.

Ray is also an experienced fundraiser. He specialises in creating and implementing effective capital appeals and trust fundraising programmes.

Establish who will be doing the work for you. It's quite common for larger agencies to send heavy hitters in to pitch but then place the work with an account manager that you've never met. If you are allocated an account manager ask what experience this person has on projects like your own.