Julian Barrell
Development Director, Access Sport CIO
Julian Barrell is an extremely experienced charity fundraising leader, with nearly twenty years’ experience of leading non-profit making organisations to drive income growth and achieve financial success, particularly in the youth sector.
Since 2013, Julian has acted as consultant and senior adviser to a number of charities and at present his substantive role is leading fundraising at Access Sport, a fast-growing organisation investing in volunteer-led community sports clubs to enable them to transform the life chances of disadvantaged children. Other organisations Julian has recently advised include Age UK, The Aldridge Foundation, Save the Children and Young Enterprise as well as social media donation platform Givey.
Prior to starting his consultancy business, Julian spent fifteen years working for The Prince’s Trust, where he established and built the organisation’s pioneering ‘Leadership Groups’ initiative, before spending six years as Director of Fundraising, during which time income grew from £38m to £61m. This included a trebling of corporate partnership income to £18m and a doubling of regional income to £9m as well as the integration of Fairbridge’s fundraising activities when the two charities merged in 2011.
In 2005 Julian established Invest in Futures, an annual gala dinner which has become by far The Prince’s Trust’s most successful fundraising event, with over £17m raised to date, including £2.1m on February 4th 2016. Julian continues to sit on the The Prince’s Trust Invest in Futures Committee to advise on future events.
Julian entered the world of non-profit fundraising in 1997 with a role at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, where he ran a £5m Crew Training Appeal, as well as a short-term role at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Julian is passionate about growing high value relationships to ensure that more and more resources can be passed from those who have them to those who do not.
