Hibba is Head of Events at The Prince’s Trust overseeing a portfolio of Special and Active Events for the youth charity. She has previously worked with Cancer Research UK in Corporate Partnerships and Special Events, and enjoyed four years abroad delivering major projects in Abu Dhabi. Hibba has been at The Prince’s Trust since 2016 and is passionate about new event trends and event innovation.

Kathleen Miles has been Director of Fundraising at Mind since 2007. Kathleen is responsible for the direction, development and delivery of both Mind’s fundraising and Mind’s Workplace Wellbeing hub who deliver a range of successful Workplace Wellbeing initiatives, including Mind’s Training and Consultancy and our Workplace Wellbeing Index.

Kathleen has a voluntary sector background, having worked in a range of organisations over the past 27 years, both in service development and delivery and in fundraising. Amongst her previous roles she has worked at NSPCC and Oxford University. She also holds a MSc in Voluntary Sector Organisation from the LSE.

An experienced events professional with over 18 years working across the not-for-profit sector. Katie currently works at Unicef UK leading on their Special Events and Stewardship programme. She joined Unicef from the Natural History Museum where she also headed up the Special Events and Supporter Team delivering over 70 events annually.

Katie has worked on all aspects of fundraising events from mass participation at Cancer Research UK to gala dinners at the Museum to small intimate thought leadership breakfasts with world leaders and thinkers. Before moving to the 3rd sector she worked on London Fashion Week, the IMF and various performing arts and literary festivals.

Tom Whitehead is the Head of Community & Events at Shelter having worked in the charity sector for over 13 years. Through a mixture of charity owned and third party fundraising events, Tom has a wealth of experience of maximising fundraising potential for various organisations.

His approach is to balance detailed analysis with a human touch to truly engage supporters. Most recently, he project managed the Fundraising Portfolio Analysis at Breast Cancer Care which adopts a data driven approach to understand each product’s current and potential performance.

Devina has been at Tommy’s for over 15 years in total and in sporting and challenge events fundraising for the past 9 years. I take part in a few running events myself – half marathons at most. As an events fundraiser, I’m always looking at and exploring new events in the charity sector to add to our portfolio at Tommy’s. I have a good understanding, mainly through our participants if what they value in an event.

Tom Whitehead is the Head of Community & Events at Shelter having worked in the charity sector for over 13 years. Through a mixture of charity owned and third party fundraising events, Tom has a wealth of experience of maximising fundraising potential for various organisations.

His approach is to balance detailed analysis with a human touch to truly engage supporters. Most recently, he project managed the Fundraising Portfolio Analysis at Breast Cancer Care which adopts a data driven approach to understand each product’s current and potential performance.

Devina has been at Tommy’s for over 15 years in total and in sporting and challenge events fundraising for the past 9 years. I take part in a few running events myself – half marathons at most. As an events fundraiser, I’m always looking at and exploring new events in the charity sector to add to our portfolio at Tommy’s. I have a good understanding, mainly through our participants if what they value in an event.