Tom Colborne was appointed TackleAfrica’s Head of fundraising and development in May 2010, following 5 years as a volunteer and 3 as a Trustee. Tom invented the Football Marathon in 2002 and organises the annual event which has raised £300,000 for TackleAfrica. Tom is a TackleAfrica qualified coach and has been on 6 coaching projects in Uganda, South Africa and Ghana, including the first ever TackleAfrica coaching project in January 2007.
Tom’s background is in fundraising in the disaster relief and international development sector, having run his own fundraising company and worked as Fundraising Analyst at the British Red Cross. Tom’s volunteer work for TackleAfrica raising over a quarter of a million pounds led to him being shortlisted for the fundraising volunteer of the year by the Institute of Fundraising in 2010.
