David Burland

David has over 35 years of experience of working in the voluntary sector.  He spent his early career in fundraising roles, culminating with increasing income six fold whilst Director of Income Generation at Help the Hospices (now Hospice UK). He was then promoted to Deputy CEO, overseeing a wide range of teams in facilities, HR, IT and grants as well as fundraising. 

From 2012 until 2017, he served as CEO of Shooting Star Chase, one of the largest children’s hospice services in the UK. During his time there, both of the charity’s hospices received ‘Outstanding’ accreditation from the CQC. In addition, the number of children and families supported and the range of services provided both increased.  The charity’s ‘Friendlies’ re-brand also won ‘Charity Brand of the Year’ in the Third Sector awards. 

Since 2012, he has run his own consultancy working with charities around governance, strategy, income generation and stakeholder engagement projects. He has also been one of Action Planning associate consultants, where he has developed a speciality in undertaking Capital Fundraising Feasibility studies and is presently completing the fifth such exercise. 

David has also served a Trustee and school Governor and in several other non- exec roles. As a result, he has a wide variety of experience and skills to bring to the benefit of Action Planning’s clients.