Rachel Third is head of philanthropy at Loughborough University, leading the award-winning team responsible for fundraising and stewardship at all levels. She has a background in major gift fundraising with individuals and has worked at King’s College London, University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University. Rachel sits on the Fundraising Committee at her alma mater, Regent’s Park College in Oxford, where she started her fundraising journey eight years ago as a student telethon caller before taking up a place on the CASE Europe Graduate Trainee programme. Rachel is a regular speaker at the CASE Spring Institute for Educational Fundraising and has sat on the Research Advisory Board for the 2018/19 Higher Education Donor Experience project.