Richard Manville, managing director
Richard started his sales career after teaching and travelling in Kenya. His skills in establishing and maintaining long-term partnerships with clients enable us to keep PTA+ free of charge to PTA members, helping them raise more funds. Richard keeps our company competitive and innovative by adapting our business strategy to meet market demands. In response to the growing number of school business managers seeking to generate extra income, he created FundEd for schools in 2016.
richard.manville@communityinspired.co.uk
Carol Rogerson, editor
Carol is an experienced publishing professional. Her skills include print and digital publishing, commissioning, writing, editing and art direction. She plans the magazine, online articles and emails, ensuring we produce fresh, original content across the magazines and digital platforms. Carol is always looking for new ways to help our small team achieve as much as we can. She is mum to one school-age child, and an active member of the school’s PTA, focusing on publicity and communications.
Zoë Hill, sub editor
Zoë has been working in magazines for more than 20 years. Starting out as a writer, her pernickety nature led her to become a sub editor. She’s proud of her attention to detail and can spot a typo at 20 paces. Her role involves cutting copy to fit the layout, fine-tuning text until it’s perfect, writing headlines that draw in the reader and ensuring no spelling mistakes slip through.
Read the PTA+ style guide.
Danny Ledger, designer
Danny has more than 20 years of experience in magazine design. He was art director at OK! Magazine and has worked on Radio Times, Tatler, Saga Magazine and the Telegraph Magazine. He brings a wealth of design expertise, experience and knowledge to PTA+ and School Fundraising magazine. Danny lives in south east London with his wife and two young children.
Sarah Everson, grants
Sarah joined us when her youngest daughter started pre-school. Sarah thrives on variety: one minute she’s liaising with subscribers and advertisers on the magazines, the next she’s researching and compiling the FundEd grants database. Sarah contributes ideas, grants information and testimonials to the publishing team as well as compiling our termly 'latest grants' bulletins.
Roz Smith, digital assistant
Roz began her career as a personal assistant for a charity director before moving into publishing and due diligence. Following her maternity leave Roz joined Community Inspired, where she assists the managing director in day-to-day activities, as well as taking care of our online presence; she is responsible for managing the content of the websites including the supplier directories, managing the corporate social media platforms, and assisting with newsletter emails, contributing ideas for future issues and ensuring the accuracy of the magazine prior to publication. She is mum to two school-age children.
Emma Griffin, account support
Emma joined the PTA+ team in February 2019 after a fun stint helping a national charity‘s local branch with their fundraising. She has spent most of her working life in advertising and marketing agencies where she managed campaigns for many different companies (a personal favourite being clients in the professional matchmaking industry). Emma looks after our advertisers and is responsible for researching new products, resources and workshops to feature in our magazines. She has three school-age children and is passionate about supporting schools and PTAs.