Rachel is the Head of the Fundraising and Alumni office at the University of Plymouth. Her fundraising career started as a student caller at University, not that she knew that at the time. Since then she’s run successful Individual Giving Teams at Durham and Edinburgh before moving physically south to Cornwall, where she joined Tate St Ives. There she was responsible for corporate and major donors and a capital project which saw a new gallery dug out of the cliff face. Joining Plymouth in 2017 she returned to HE managing the alumni relations, fundraising and Graduate Outcome teams.

Building relationships, telling stories and making change happen is what she continues to love about fundraising.

Despite being a proud Wulfrunian she makes the most of her adopted home of Cornwall and regardless of the weather, can often be found in the sea.