About

Rachel Roxburgh: CEO

Rachel is an accomplished leader with 20 years of experience in the not-for-profit sector. Her impressive career includes 11 years as a CEO in sport for development and youth charities. As inaugural CEO of Dallaglio RugbyWorks, she transformed the organisation into a £3.2m award-winning employability skills charity.

Her success began as Head of Race for Life at Cancer Research UK, where she turned a 5k women's event into a household name, growing participants from 36,000 to 600,000 and revenue from £2m to £60m over eight years.

Rachel's expertise extends to consulting for small to medium-sized charities and businesses, such as KFC, Trekstock, Working Options, Jamal Edwards Self Belief Trust, and ParkPlay. Renowned for her creative, strategic, and pragmatic approach, Rachel consistently delivers results with an entrepreneurial mindset.

Her strategic vision, leadership skills, and results-oriented approach make her an invaluable asset to organizations seeking positive change. Rachel currently serves as a Mentor with Leaders Plus and Livity, and is the proud Chair of Trekstock. She has also held trustee positions at The House of St Barnabas, a homeless social enterprise.

Paula Robertson - Associate Consultant

Paula is an exceptional operations guru who is fuelled by a relentless drive to exceed expectations and achieve targets. She has a wealth of experience working at senior levels for organisations such as Dallaglio RugbyWorks, IOSH, Book Clubs & Schools, In Your Corner (boxing social enterprise), and has also worked as a teacher.

Her expertise lies in operational infrastructure, process, culture, and performance. With her keen analytical skills, she identifies the critical needs of charities and identifies areas where operations can be improved, resulting in better services for benefactors and a greater overall impact. Paula's leadership style inspires teams to work towards shared goals and achieve remarkable results.

Paula's ability to deliver sector-specific, educational, and charity events of all shapes and sizes is unparalleled. She has organised numerous mass participation fundraising events overseas, demonstrating her ability to create meaningful experiences for participants while making a positive impact on the world.

Overall her impressive track record of success and unwavering commitment to excellence make her an invaluable asset to any organisation. Her ability to identify areas for improvement, drive operational excellence, and inspire teams to achieve their best sets her apart as a true leader in her field.

Paula is also a trustee of youth charity TwentyTwenty.

Associate Consultant: Lizzie Pring

Lizzie is a creative, positive, and solutions-focused brand and communications professional. For the past 15 years, she’s led communications and marketing in-house and freelance for large and small charities, start-ups, scale-ups, and funders. She’s created new brands from scratch, managed brand refreshes, full rebrands and name changes.  

Over her 15 years, she’s applied her communications expertise to a wide variety of fundraising, campaigning, and brand-building objectives for organisations like The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Impetus, Youth Investment Fund, Student Minds, and Jeans for Genes Day.

She specialises in brand and communications strategy but is also expert at writing crystal clear copy and creating innovative content. She is in her element when she gets to work on projects that combine all three, backed by solid audience consultation and involvement.

 Her last seven years leading communications in-house for impact leader, Impetus, instilled in her a disciplined focus on the end goal of all comms activity. To Lizzie, only the right comms, that will actually help achieve the end goal will do. She always approaches any challenge with a focus on the solutions and the positive energy to tackle them.