We're not a generic "tech for good" team.

Luke spent 18 years inside the charity sector before writing a line of code. He grew a youth mentoring charity from £45,000 to £300,000 in turnover as its Chief Executive, built its fundraising function from scratch, and in 2023 watched it close because of funding failure — not because the work wasn’t good, but because the system for connecting good work to money is broken by design.

Rather than move on quietly, he turned that failure into a platform. He began speaking openly about what the funding system gets wrong, completed the Chartered Institute of Fundraising Diploma with a distinction, and was later invited back to give the graduation address to the following cohort. He now speaks on university courses training the next generation of charity leaders.

Raiser is the service he spent two decades hunting for and couldn’t find. With no formal engineering background, he built approximately 90% of the platform himself — a full-stack Ruby on Rails application — using Cursor and Claude Code. He took advice on the tech stack from DHH, creator of Ruby on Rails, in an email exchange that became a conversation and eventually an advisory relationship.

Luke is a CIOF-qualified fundraiser, a trustee, and a former charity CEO. He lives in Manchester.

Beckie has spent her career solving the problem funders can’t quite name: why, even with genuine intent to fund good work, so much money ends up going to the wrong places. Her answer has always been the same — the sector lacks a shared language for impact, and without it, the best evidence rarely reaches the people making funding decisions.

As an impact evaluation specialist, she has built frameworks that work at national scale. Her evaluation system for the 1851 Trust was adopted by the UK Department for Transport as the national standard for their STEM programme. She founded The Charity Spark in 2019 — profitable from day one, with an international client portfolio that includes the Church of England and the Royal Horticultural Society — and has been named Social Entrepreneur of the Year at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards in both 2024 and 2025.

Before all of that, she had a career that bears no resemblance to a standard career trajectory: contributing writer on the Channel 4 series Skins, a commissioned film broadcast nationally as part of Channel 4’s 25th anniversary celebrations, officer training in the Royal Naval Reserve, and a Lead Projects Officer role at a Westminster policy think tank in her early twenties. She moves fast, operates at the level of the room she intends to lead, and has a track record of building things that get adopted beyond the organisation that commissioned them.

Beckie’s impact measurement tools — built independently in early 2025 — became the foundation of Raiser’s Impact Story™ and the Open Impact Standard. She formally joined the cap table in December 2025 when her IP merged into Raiser.

She is completing a theology degree for ordination, averaging first-class honours throughout. She lives in Hampshire.