Peter Maple

Born in 1948 one of the "luckiest boomers" and still researching "the nature of philanthropy at London South Bank University (LSBU). Second Edition of "Marketing Strategy for Effective Fundraising" was out in 2013. Major Gift Fundraising came out in 2021 and Successful Charity Fundraising - the basics for smaller charities, in January 2022. Both these are published by SPM. In between these he successfully completed a PhD entitled: Insights into philanthropy - an investigation into motivations for UK charitable giving. He was chair of the Institute of Fundraising Consultants Special Interest Group.

After a successful career in commercial marketing Peter has spent the last 30 years successfully fundraising as Director of Fundraising at: Arthritis Care, Leonard Cheshire, the Brooke Hospital for Animals and Crisis. He is now a visiting academic teaching charity leadership, management, social marketing and fundraising at LSBU and St Marys University. and, unbeknown to many, considers himself an aged rock god!