# About

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/04/11/about-100/
- Published: 2007-04-11T16:53:24+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

After a failed career in football, and then as a ZX Spectrum programmer, I joined
the voluntary sector in 1990 and have worked in fundraising ever since. I was fortunate
enough to hold senior fundraising roles within a number of major charities including
Oxfam, Practical Action and Habitat for Humanity International and to sit on the
Disasters Emergency Committee. I founded [John Grain Associates](http://www.johngrainassociates.com)
in 2004.

My first job at Oxfam was opening mail and banking cheques and gave me a fantastic
insight into the many motivations of folk to donate to charity. It is probably for
this reason I have always had a passion for what inspires people to give and how
charities look after their supporters – which often is not very well!

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