Meet the team

Richard Manville, managing director

Richard began his career in sales after travelling and teaching in Kenya. His market expertise means he is able to seek out, build and nurture long-term partnerships with clients. These relationships enable us to provide fundraising services to schools free of charge, helping them to raise even more! Richard ensures the company remains competitive and innovative, swiftly adapting the business strategy according to changes in the market. After identifying an emerging need for school business managers to engage in fundraising activities, Richard decided to launch FundEd for schools.

richard.manville@communityinspired.co.uk

Carol Rogerson, editor 

Carol is an experienced publishing professional. Her skills include print and digital publishing, commissioning, writing, editing and art direction. She plans the magazine, online articles and emails, ensuring we produce fresh, original content across the magazines and digital platforms. Carol is always looking for new ways to help our small team achieve as much as we can. She is mum to one school-age child, and an active member of the school’s PTA, focusing on publicity and communications.

Zoë Hill, sub editor

Zoë has been working in magazines for more than 20 years. Starting out as a writer, her pernickety nature led her to become a sub editor. She’s proud of her attention to detail and can spot a typo at 20 paces. Her role involves cutting copy to fit the layout, fine-tuning text until it’s perfect, writing headlines that draw in the reader and ensuring no spelling mistakes slip through.

Sarah Everson, grants

Sarah joined us when her youngest daughter started pre-school. Sarah thrives on variety: one minute she’s liaising with subscribers and advertisers on the magazines, the next she’s researching and compiling the FundEd grants database. Sarah contributes ideas, grants information and testimonials to the publishing team as well as compiling our termly 'latest grants' bulletins. 

Roz Smith, digital assistant

Roz began her career as a PA for the director of a charity, before moving into publishing and due diligence. Following her maternity leave, Roz joined Community Inspired, where she assists the managing director in day-to-day activities, taking responsibility for email and online activity, particularly our supplier directories. Roz has two school-age children.

Emma Griffin, account support

Emma joined the 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, which saw her manage a variety of campaigns. Emma looks after some of our advertising clients and is responsible for researching new products, resources and workshops to feature in our magazines.  She has three school-age children and is passionate about supporting schools and PTAs.