Richard is the Trust and Foundations Manager at Variety. He is a senior fundraising professional who specialises in major gift philanthropy, focusing on Trusts and Foundations. He is a Trustee of a medium-sized grant-making charitable Trust and has experience volunteering in grant-making for eight years.

Richard has worked with senior leadership at nine national charities. Sectors include services that tackle domestic abuse;  advance autism research; provide humanitarian aid; promulgate Christian theology; and more. Examples of charities that he has worked with include Refuge, the National Children’s Bureau and Autistica.

Previous to this, Richard worked in London as a Tax Associate for an international chartered accountancy firm, specialising within Private Client Services.