Richard Manville, managing director
Richard started his sales career after teaching and travelling in Kenya. His skills in establishing and maintaining long-term partnerships with clients enable us to keep PTA+ free of charge to PTA members, helping them raise more funds. Richard keeps our company competitive and innovative by adapting our business strategy to meet market demands. In response to the growing number of school business managers seeking to generate extra income, he created FundEd for schools in 2016.
richard.manville@communityinspired.co.uk
Sarah Everson, grants
Sarah joined us when her youngest daughter started pre-school over 10 years ago. Having volunteered in various roles throughout her adult life, including with the local swimming club, as a Guide leader and as the secretary of her daughter’s primary school PTA, she understands the challenges faced by not-for-profits and schools when it comes to fundraising. Sarah spends much of her time researching grants; updating the FundEd grants database, providing grant leads to schools and compiling grants bulletins and email updates.
Emma Griffin, account manager
Emma joined the PTA+ team in February 2019 after a fun stint helping a national charity‘s local branch with their fundraising. She has spent most of her working life in advertising and marketing agencies where she managed campaigns for many different companies. Emma looks after our suppliers as well as managing our social media channels and PTA email newsletters. She has three school-age children and is passionate about supporting schools and PTAs.