Daniel Bamsey
Glais,Swansea
Summary
Proven and proactive third sector leader with extensive, diverse experience of fundraising and driving strategic growth; developing people and processes, campaigns and content for services that empower marginalised communities and drive social change.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work history
Head of Fundraising
Ty Hafan Children's Hospice
Sully, Vale of Glamorgan
2024.03 - Current
- Strategic responsibility and operational oversight of diverse portfolio of income generation departments. Senior budget holder and accountability for successfully meeting annual targets of £4m+ and associated KPIs across Grants, Individual Giving, Regular Giving and Legacies.
- Development and implementation of insight driven fundraising strategies, new products and bespoke projects to maximise income opportunities and improve supporter experiences. This includes personal oversight of an impact and evidence framework, significant expansion of cold donor acquisition programmes, and optimisation of systems, processes and data analysis across philanthropic giving.
- Stakeholder engagement lead and line management of multidisciplinary team in a hybrid working environment, ensuring successful delivery, quality and innovation across multiple campaigns, channels, asks and applications to support a wide range of services across Wales.
Head of Bids and Tenders
Llamau
Cardiff
2022.04 - 2024.03
- Establishment of new senior role with strategic responsibility and direction of income generation for youth homelessness, employability and domestic abuse/gender specific services from grants and contracts.
- Development and management lead for bids, tenders and related budgets across £20m annual worth of varied regional/national services; redeveloping organisational income audit and financial procedures to reduce viability risks and improve fundraising ROI.
- Line management of new team of Bid Writers, successfully increasing grant/contract income capacity and developing suites of due diligence processes to improve stewardship, stakeholder relationship management and reporting mechanisms.
- Research, creation and collation of copy, data analysis and project plans to effectively evidence diverse and complex need, impact and service delivery models.
Bid Writer
Llamau
Cardiff
2016.03 - 2022.04
- Development and submission of statutory bids, tenders and trust/foundation grant applications; contributing to income growth of 60% over 6 years of tenure and service contract expansions.
- Responsibility for relevant grant and contract income stewardship, stakeholder management, retention and progress/financial reporting, identifying process gaps and streamlining fundraising systems.
- Identification and planned approach of new income opportunities for wide and diverse range of projects/services within set financial targets, including innovative/specialist service developments and improved data analysis, collation and presentation.
Funding and Finance Officer
Your Voice Advocacy / Swansea People First
Swansea
2005.05 - 2016.03
- Administrative, fundraising and finance lead for local professional, peer and self-advocacy organisations supporting adults with learning disabilities.
- Development of statutory bids and trust/foundation grant applications, significantly improving financial sustainability, capacity and reach; including a transformational £250,000 multi-year grant.
- Preparation and oversight of accounts, service reports and income stewardship requirements, successfully retaining statutory service level agreements.
- Design and development of promotional and accessible communication materials/tools, resources and media, alongside support for operational team to deliver sessions, groups and activities
Education
Higher National Diploma - Popular Music
Neath Port Talbot College
Neath2006-07
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
University of Wales
Swansea2003-07
Skills
- Strategic Leadership & Decision Making
- Strategy & Business Case Development
- Relationship Building & Stakeholder Engagement
- Partnership and Project Working
- Contract Management
- Team Management, Support and Mentoring
- Recruitment, Objective Setting and PDRs
- Performance Management, KPI Analysis and Reporting
- Presentation and Communication Skills
- Compassionate Leadership and Continuous Learning
- Copywriting, Storytelling and Cases for Support
- Integrated Multi-Channel Campaign Management
- Direct Marketing
- Legacy Marketing and Administration
- Cold Acquisition & Regular Donor Recruitment
- Stewardship Journeys, Experiences & Retention
- Bid/Tender Writing & Management
- Statutory Funding Mechanisms
- Trust & Foundation Stewardship
- Impact Monitoring & Evaluation
- Collaboration with Corporate, Community, Events & Major Donor programmes
- High Value, Complex & Capital Donations/Grants
- Budget Development, Management & Forecasting
- CRM/Database Management
- Fundraising Compliance & Data Protection
- Risk Management
- Research & Data Analysis
- Office 365 including Teams, Excel, Copilot & AI Prompting
Volunteering
Trustee and Director at Swansea Community Farm. https://www.swanseacommunityfarm.org.uk/
Timeline
Head of Fundraising
Ty Hafan Children's Hospice
2024.03 - Current
Head of Bids and Tenders
Llamau
2022.04 - 2024.03
Bid Writer
Llamau
2016.03 - 2022.04
Funding and Finance Officer
Your Voice Advocacy / Swansea People First
2005.05 - 2016.03
Higher National Diploma - Popular Music
Neath Port Talbot College
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
University of Wales