John Kingston
John Kingston talks about access to capital, fundraising and GK Chesterton
What attracted you to the voluntary sector?
At the tender age of 18 I jumped on a BOAC plane to Trinidad as a VSO volunteer to teach mathematics in a secondary school. Although I come from a family business background with a strong Christian ethic I was not on some sort of evangelical mission. It was just something I wanted to do before going up to Cambridge to read
Economics. After my degree I worked for two years in southern Africa as an Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Nuffield fellow – if you look around the sector and at our society it is amazing how many have done overseas voluntary work at an early stage of their careers.
Author: John Kingston
John Kingston OBE is the founder director of CAF Venturesome, an initiative of the Charities Aid Foundation that offers bridging finance and development capital to charities, in the form of unsecured loans, underwriting and quasi-equity. He joined 3i Group plc after an MBA at Manchester Business School, moving to Save the Children UK in 1990 as director of fundraising/marketing, before joining CAF in 2001. John was chair of the Institute of Fundraising (2000 to 2003) and is currently chair of the Social Investment Market group and the Nationwide Foundation.
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