MA in Charity Management
Staff Profiles
- Dr Geoff Paul, Programme Director
- Nick Kavanagh Lecturer
- Kate Kirkland Lecturer
- Denise Naylor Lecturer
- Lizette Niekerk Lecturer
Dr Geoff Paul BSc MBA PhD FHEA
Dr Geoff Paul successfully obtained a BSc (Hons) in Chemical Engineering, but moved into the area of Management with the completion of his MBA from Cass Business School.
He has worked as a Management Consultant for numerous oil, gas, energy, water and transportation companies for over ten years.
Dr Paul has been involved in the nonprofit sector for many years and is currently a Trustee with Victims Support (London) and serves on the Executive Management Team, The Finance Committee and The Due Diligence Committee. He is currently preparing a book on Charity Management.
Nick Kavanagh FCA AIIT
In the early 1980s Nick spent two years in Tanzania through Voluntary Service Overseas, lecturing in accounting, management and other subjects - mainly in Swahili, at a Conference and Training Centre in Dodoma.
He has worked mainly in the international aid area of the charity sector and in his time with Save the Children he was privileged to see first hand some of the work with vulnerable children in countries such as Niger and India. Nick remembers vividly, in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Pakistan a few years ago, not just the turmoil of many families left with nothing but the capacity of children to play and smile despite all the odds and the ability of charities to really make a difference.
Nick currently works 3 days a week for The Arvon Foundation – a charity which runs residential creative writing courses. He also lectures in Charity Finance and Taxation at St Mary’s University College Twickenham and London Southbank University. He volunteers with the Charity Tax Group and is passionate about trying to do something about the £500m a year charities have to pay in irrecoverable VAT instead of being able to spend it on all the great work that charities carry out.
He likes running (slowly), used to do a bit of race walking, enjoys noisy rock music and watching his beloved Leeds Utd.
Kate is a governance and management consultant, lecturer and author. She has a degree in economics and operational research and a post graduate diploma in managing voluntary and non-profit enterprises.
Kate set up the Trustee Unit at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations where she compiled the first edition of The Good Trustee Guide and other publications. She then established the Charity Unit at accountants and consultants BDO Stoy Hayward. During her career she has been an employee of three charities, a Trustee of seven including Oxfam, Family Action, UnLtd and Target Ovarian Cancer, and provided consultancy services to many others.
She has co-authored four editions of Tottel's Charity Administration Handbook and is currently writing a book on charity governance and management for Bloomsbury.
Denise Naylor
Denise is a Chartered Accountant, university lecturer, business owner, author and trainer specialising in financial and business management. She has taught overseas and in the UK; on-ground and online.
She currently tutors part-time students studying at The Open University and full-time students studying University of Wales (Newport Business School) Masters in Business Administration. She recently completed a contract as Head of Finance for a medium-sized charitable company.
Denise’s specialist area of expertise is charity accounting and law. She is a former Senior Accountant for the Charity Commission for England and Wales, the government organization that regulates UK charities.
She has published several books on charity accounting, finance and law. Relevant publications include:
- Naylor D J (2006) Charitable leisure trading: A guide to accounting and taxation Ravenswood Publications, London
- Naylor D J (2006) Accounting for your leisure trust second edition Ravenswood Publications, London
Lizette Niekerk BA (Hons) MBA
Lizette gained an MBA from the University of South Africa specialising in Charity Marketing. A former diplomat, she is currently the Marketing Manager for The British Institute of Radiology, a multidisciplinary charity in the medical imaging field.
Previously she was the Marketing and Communications Manager of The Facial Surgery Research Foundation – Saving Faces, a specialist charity conducting clinical research into the treatment of facial disease and injury with surgeons around the UK.
