Edward Lord, founder trustee, is a fundraising and public affairs specialist having been development director of two large UK universities, deputy director of a London mayoral campaign and adviser/interim CEO to a number of private and not-for-profit sector clients including national charities and a premiership football club’s community programme.

He is also a magistrate; an elected member of the City of London Corporation and City of London Police Authority; chairman of 4ps, the Public Private Partnerships Programme; and a member of the Local Government Association’s Improvement Board and Strategy & Finance Policy Review Group. He served as the Liberal

Democrats’ deputy party treasurer under Charles Kennedy.