About Foster Murphy
 Foster Murphy . . . a mould-breaker, a developer of people,
a strategic thinker, a respected speaker, a visionary leader.
During Foster’s career in the voluntary sector, he
has exercised the full range of leadership and management
skills across five national level posts, each involving international
representation. Foster combines passionate cause advocacy
with strategic planning and analytical insight.
Foster set up his own consultancy, Charitable Futures, in
mid-2002, with a mission to help charities find or rediscover
their vision, to look ahead and to plan for the long-term.
Projects involving some fifteen local, national and international
organisations have been completed successfully.
Foster Murphy was Chief Executive, over a 21 year time span,
of two major not-for-profit organisations. The Abbeyfield
Society is the UK central support base for 500+ independent
local societies , together providing accommodation and care
for 10,000 older people. As a major provider, Abbeyfield was
notable as a federated organisation, whose budget exceeded
£60m. Foster led the organisation to renewed respect
and appreciation, leading successful capital fund-raising
campaigns and representing the Society at the highest level
of government.
Foster spent eleven years as Chief Executive of the National
Centre for Volunteering. Here he built recognition for the
Centre and developed co-operative links with government. He
introduced the annual Aves Lecture on Volunteering and the
UK Volunteers Week, as well as Volnet UK, a pioneer online
data base on volunteering.
In 1972 Foster joined the National Council for Voluntary
Organisations to head up the Youth Department, and then managed
all work in relation to a diversity of national organisations.
In 1978 he became deputy director with responsibility for
project development, setting up and managing 13 projects over
three and a half years.
Foster’s early career was with two ecumenical organisations
- first as Irish Secretary of the Student Christian Movement
(the widely recognised student body from which many lay and
clerical leaders in the churches sprang). Then he worked as
Secretary of the Youth Department of the British Council of
Churches where he organised the 1968 British Christian Youth
Conference in Edinburgh and developed co-operation between
the member churches of different denominations. He was elected
as founder-chair of the Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe,
building networks across European and World Council of Churches
assemblies.
He is a Member of the Institute of Fund Raising and a Fellow
of the Chartered Management Institute.
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