Meet The Team - The Beacon Collaborative

Matthew Bowcock CBE

Co-founder and Chair

Matthew Bowcock co-founded the Beacon Collaborative with Cath Dovey. He has been Chairman of UK Community Foundations, a Council Member of Arts Council England and a trustee of The Philanthropy Workshop and Philanthropy Impact. Matthew is currently Deputy Chair of the Watts Gallery Artists Village. In 2012 he authored a report for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, “Digital Giving in the Arts – Democratising Philanthropy.” Through the family foundation, the Hazelhurst Trust, he has focused on community projects, arts for social impact and developing more and better philanthropy. His background is in technology entrepreneurship, company start-up and investment and he has established several businesses in Australia, the US and the UK.

Cath Dovey

Co-founder

Cath is a co-founder of the Beacon Collaborative and is the lead coordinator for a number of the activities. Formerly a co-founder of Scorpio Partnership, the global wealth management strategy and research firm, she led the firm’s high-net-worth and strategy research capabilities for two decades. In the field of philanthropy, Cath headed Scorpio Partnership’s global research work with major donors, family givers and family foundations. Cath chairs Rosa, the UK fund for women and girls, and is a trustee of Philanthropy Impact.

Sarah Jane O’Neill

Director

An experienced major gift fundraiser, Sarah Jane has worked on some of the UK’s most high-profile campaigns, including Heads Together and Oxford Thinking.

She was Head of Major Gifts at the Imperial War Museum during the capital campaign for the Second World War and Holocaust Galleries and ran the Stonewall Ambassadors programme for three years. As Philanthropy Director at The Scouts, Sarah Jane led the HNW fundraising for their Early Years Programme, Squirrels, raising seven figures towards its launch.

Sarah Jane studied acting at the Oxford School of Drama and is currently undertaking a Masters in Philanthropic Studies at the University of Kent.

James Macdonald

Communications Coordinator

James is responsible for strategic communications, content and community engagement at Beacon Collaborative. Additionally, he co-runs a charitable initiative working on music and mental health and recently launched an ethical music streaming start-up. James has a BSc and MA in Human Rights.

David Oduwole

Technical Project Coordinator

David joined Beacon in July 2021 as a Technical Project Coordinator. David has a BSc in Computer Science.