Meet our fundraising board
We are grateful to our fundraising board for their support - learn more about them!
The BBC Media Action Fundraising Board is made up of dedicated people working in the private sector, volunteering their time to help us to achieve our fundraising goals.
They also help us to deliver our flagship fundraising dinner, The BBC Correspondents' Charity Dinner.
Rob Agnew
Rob is a Partner at Isio, leading the Private Capital team’s investment advisory for families, charities and endowments. Rob has a twenty-year career working across banking divisions at Deutsche Bank and more recently as a Managing Director in Barclays, majoring on advising families and high growth founders. Rob has also served as a junior Warfare Officer in the Royal Navy.
Ben Bruton
Ben is Partner and Head of English Law Litigation in Winston & Strawn’s London dispute resolution practice. He handles high-stakes disputes for companies around the world. Prior to joining Winston & Strawn, Ben was Managing Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution at the UAE office of a leading UK international law firm. Ben has supported BBC Media Action since 2010 and has been a member of the fundraising board since 2021.
Tim Danaher
Tim is global co-lead for consumer industries at Brunswick Group, the leading international communications and critical issues advisory firm. In this role, Tim has worked with many of the UK and world’s biggest retailers and consumer brands, both in the UK and previously in China, where he was based for two years. Earlier in his career, Tim was a leading journalist covering the retail sector.
Anne Godfrey
Anne is CEO of GS1UK, a 59,000-strong membership organisation. She specialises in change management in the not-for-profit sector. Anne has held leadership roles in eight membership organisations, including the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Law Society. Anne’s earlier career was in publishing and included sales and marketing roles at Pearson and Thomson Reuters. She is passionate about women’s rights and looks forward to working with the fundraising board to drive gender equality.
