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Rachel RoxburghRR

Rachel Roxburgh

Charity Strategy and Social Purpose Consultant

€926/day
1 project
London, GB
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Rachel

A dynamic and influential board-level leader, recognised for delivering business growth and radical impact in charity and not-for-profit. Proven track record of leading strategic planning and innovation to deliver results through a focus of creating cultures with a growth-mindset and disciplined execution.

Recognised as a strategic consultant /CEO who consistently delivers creative, commercial, pragmatic strategies through exceptional people leadership. Passionate about achieving operational excellence, high value partnerships that deliver on productivity and team wellbeing.

Recent work has been working a major high street brand on their social mobility programme looking at how they could work with their supply chain to support the programme. Working with a new charity to create a new funding model to attract business, develop an impact strategy, and rebrand the charity to be modern and relevant to its audience. Being an independent chair of a charity going through troubled times.

Working with a charity CEO to help reboot their internal infrastructure and understand better their position in the space they operate, ready for a three year scaling up plan. Doing a feasibility study for an international development charity on creating a consultancy arm.

Curated a film and panel discussion for the ‘Raising the Game’ section of The Good Business Festival, working with Liverpool City Council and Hemingway Design.

Brought together two organisations to co-create and deliver a successful national intergenerational pilot.

I was the inaugural CEO of Lawrence Dallaglio's charity, and designed a long term, impact-driven sustainable employability skills programme, working with teenagers excluded from mainstream education.

Headed up Cancer Research UK's Race for Life, a 5k women’s event, growing it from £2m to £60m and from 36,000 to 600,000 participants and to a brand with an 80% unprompted recall.

Chair of Trekstock, a cancer charity.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
London (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Internet Watch Foundation
    Interim Development Director
    April 2025 - March 2026 (11 months)
    • • Established a new Executive role, bringing together two teams within the directorate to create a more integrated approach to partnerships, growth and member engagement. Partnered with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team to shape organisational strategy and strengthen collaboration across the organisation.
    • • Redefined the member engagement model, shifting relationships from transactional to strategic and increasing accountability across the network. Led a high-performing team and introduced a more collegiate way of working within the Executive team.
    • • Built high-value strategic partnerships across technology, government and industry, including bringing Nvidia on board and expanding the Home Office relationship, supporting sustainable growth and strengthening IWF's position with senior decision-makers.
  • Vauxhall City Farm
    Interim CEO
    July 2024 - April 2025 (9 months)
    • • Brought in to stabilise and reposition the organisation, rebuilding culture while strengthening governance, compliance and operational efficiency
    • • Introduced a new funding and partnership model to improve financial resilience and attract business support.
    • • Developed a clear impact strategy, refocusing the Farm's programmes to deliver stronger community engagement and educational outcomes.
    • • Strengthened the organisation's mission-led offer, ensuring the Farm delivered greater social value for local schools, families and the wider community.
    Funding models Continual improvement Leadership
  • KFC Ireland & UK
    Strategy Consultant
    RESTAURANTS AND FOOD SERVICE
    February 2024 - October 2024 (8 months)
    London, United Kingdom
    Brought in to help them find a new funding model for their social mobility programme. Working with internal stakeholders in designing a workshop session to explore avenues of funding, including the supply chain, then making recommendations moving forward after conducting research and interviews.
    Did an additional piece of work helping them with their structure and roadmap of the KFC Foundation.
    Funding models

Reviews

5.0

Out of 1 rating

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Verena

Kensington and Chelsea Council

Reviewed on 24.06.2023

It was great working with Rachel on a charity governance project. Rachel brought a range of professionals skills to the project.

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Education

  • Business Studies - Marketing,
    Nottingham Trent University
    Business Studies - Marketing,

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