About me

Hello, thanks for visiting myactionaid page.

My involvement with ActionAid started when a fundraiser came to my door one day in late Spring 2006 and persuaded me that I should sponsor a child in rural China. I have to say it wasn't a difficult sell as I had been wanting to sponsor a child for some time as it gives communities long-term assistance, and is very different to my monthly giving to the British Red Cross.

I completed an MSc in Development Economics in 1993 at what was then Wye College, University of London and is now part of Imperial College, London. I had wanted to work at improving agrarian marketing systems and therefore farmers' incomes in less developed countries. Despite these lofty ambitions, the realities of making a living took over so instead I ended up working in a bank in the City of London.

I've never totally given up on the ideal of doing some work in the third world. This November I'm taking part in the Cambodia Build Challenge. It's a diet version of what my younger self wanted to do.

Please have a look at the rest of this site, paying special attention to the "make a donation" section at the bottom of the next page! And feel free to be as generous as you like :-)- it's a very straightforward process.