Who we are

Carsam offers charities expert mid and high value fundraising support, as well as recruitment services, enabling your organisation to make a transformative step-change in its development.

 

Founder, Paul Stein, is an expert relationship fundraiser, who has more than 20 years' experience working in the charity sector. He specialises in start-ups and the building of effective, long-term philanthropic partnerships.

 

He began his career at Macmillan Cancer Support, before moving to World Jewish Relief, where he became their first Director of Fundraising, Marketing & Communications. During his seven-year tenure, the charity’s profile and voluntary income increased substantially, an achievement which was replicated at MQ: Transforming Mental Health, which he joined in 2014. From a standing start, the charity now consistently raises £1.5m - £2m annually, funding innovative research which aims to transform the mental health landscape and achieve genuine patient impact.

 

Most recently, Paul spent nearly five years at the Royal Free Charity (RFC), supporting one of the largest NHS Trusts in the UK. He led their fundraising activities in support of staff and patients across Barnet, Chase Farm, North Middlesex and the Royal Free hospitals. With very limited resources, he successfully ran RFC’s Covid-19 Emergency Appeal, raising £2.2m and acquiring over 2,200 new supporters for the charity. He then went on to radically overhaul the fundraising infrastructure and proposition, growing core income by 27%, and exponentially increasing the size of the active database.

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A TEDx speaker and published author (Donors for Life: A Practitioners’ Guide to Relationship Fundraising, 2017, White Lion Press), Paul was included in the inaugural Inside Out Leaderboard, and has been regularly acknowledged as one of the UK’s 50 most influential fundraisers. He has been a trustee of The Anne Frank Trust UK and a governor of City of London School, an Associate for The Philanthropy Company  and NFP Consulting, and has advised and mentored senior consultants from a range of charities including senior personnel at a range of charities, including GOSH, Bloomsbury Foundation, The Abraham Initiatives, Bright Futures UK and Afrikids.

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Carsam is named in honour of Paul's children, Cara and Sam, of whom he is incredibly proud. He wanted to incorporate his cat, Tabitha, into the blend, but his wife told him it would be too weird. He accepted this, reluctantly.