Our Team
Tim Boyes-Watson, Director and Co-Creator
Tim is seeking to change the inequitable world of funding and non-profit management in new ways - as a Director and Co-Creator of Fair Funding Solutions. Fair Funding Solutions is advising non-profits and funders on how to design and implement practical ways to make financial management and funding more equitable and locally led.
This builds on Tim's previous role of Global Director of Influence and Initiatives at Humentum. Here he was responsible for working in partnership with donors and other membership networks to create transformative solutions to key operational challenges in development and humanitarian work that can be achieved by changing donor policies or creating global standards. From 2010 to 2017 Tim served as CEO of Mango, whose mission was to strengthen the financial management and accountability of humanitarian and development NGOs and their partners. Tim then led Mango into a merger with InsideNGO and LINGOs to create Humentum.
Tim is a thought leader on key non-profit financial management issues, such as inadequate cost coverage, fraud and financial sustainability. He is playing a leading role in the development of the world’s first ever international financial reporting guidance for non-profit organisations, see www.IFR4NPO.org, supported through his ongoing relationship with Humentum, as an Associate Consultant.
Tim has worked in various senior leadership roles within the social sector over the last 20 years. He joined Mango after being Chief Executive of Learning South West, a UK education and youth work charity. Prior to that Tim lived and worked in Vietnam for 3 years as Country Director for VSO. At Christian Aid he was Head of Finance, Head of Programme Funding and acted as Finance Director for 6 months. His first job in the not-for-profit sector was as a Regional Accountant for West and Southern Africa at Save the Children. Tim studied Philosophy and Economics and qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen.
Rachel Boyes-Watson, Director and Co-Creator
Jo Baker, Associate Consultant
Rob Hayes, Associate Consultant
Tim Boyes-Watson
Director and Co-Creator
Rachel Boyes-Watson
Director and Co-Creator
Rachel is a values driven Coach and Consultant who enjoys working with change-makers in social impact organisations that are making a genuine difference to their communities and global challenges. She believes in ‘walking your talk’ and ensuring that an organisation’s values are reflected in all its systems and interactions and how it looks after the wellbeing of its people.
Rachel is a transformative coach, trained at Animas, who is passionate about supporting individuals and organisations to flourish, while making major changes and navigating through an ever more complex and volatile world. In transformative coaching, the focus is on helping the individual to become more aware of their deeper, often taken-for-granted, beliefs, values and assumptions and how they are shaping how they experience their life or a given situation.
Before becoming a co-creator of Fair Funding Solutions, she was the Chief Operating Officer for 7 years at Low Carbon Hub, a renewable energy social enterprise. At the Low Carbon Hub she supported the organisation to develop from a start-up to operating a multi-million pound renewable energy generation portfolio, as well as running a community grants programme and overseeing investor relations for over 1,500 social investors. Prior to working at Low Carbon Hub, she worked as an operations and project management professional and consultant for a variety of NGOs and private sector organisations in the UK and Vietnam.
Jo Baker
Associate Consultant
Jo has over 25 years’ experience in the NGO sector after qualifying as a chartered accountant with the large audit firm, Arthur Andersen. Jo has extensive experience in designing and delivering financial management training courses around the globe, mostly with Mango (now Humentum) where she was one of the key training designers.
Prior to joining Mango, Jo was Head of International Finance at British Red Cross (BRC) for 8 years and since 2022, she has been undertaking some interim roles with BRC including as their Ukraine finance manager, senior finance business partner and also designing and delivering a global programme in cost recovery capabilities to partner Red Cross/Crescent societies.
Siham Bortcosh
Associate Consultant
Siham is a senior executive in the NGO sector, with extensive experience of strategic consultancy to many international NGOs over a period of many years. She is a qualified accountant who has worked as finance director in several not for profit organisations. She supports organisations to improve their financial management practice, including financial strategy, sustainability and cost recovery, and their financial management policy, capabilities, processes and systems. She is co-author, with Tim Boyes-Watson, of "Breaking the Starvation Cycle", a research report which laid bare the inadequacy of cost coverage provided to many NGOs in donor funding. She has extensive knowledge of financial governance, and more specialist areas such as treasury management for NGOs, She has also worked with the IFR4NPO initiative to develop supplementary guidance to enable NGOs to present key auditable financial information about a specific project or grant (or projects/grants) in a consistent and harmonised way that could be useful to the grantor for accountability purposes.
Siham has extensive experience of convening events for finance professionals and of running workshops, and of providing informal training, coaching and mentoring.
Siham Bortcosh, Associate Consultant
Sareta is a senior financial professional with 21 years International and National NGO experience within the development sector. Her main areas of expertise are Financial Management; Financial Sustainability; Grant Management and Governance, advising NGO teams, managers and boards on best practices.
She is an experienced trainer and Consultant and has over the last 21 years delivered more than 200 training courses. Her experience includes consultancies for NGO staff and local partners in more than 35 African and Asia /Pacific countries. Sareta has a real passion for NGO capacity building and strengthening, has mentored many non-profit organizations to be more effective and to become financially sustainable.
Sareta Thomas
Associate Consultant
Rob Hayes
Associate Consultant
Rob has a passion for improving financial management by training and advising people and organisations around the world. Rob is based in the UK and is a qualified (ACMA) accountant. For the last 20 years he has worked in various finance roles within the humanitarian, development and environmental sector with 6 years as a Finance Director. Rob has extensive experience in designing and delivering financial management training courses around the globe.
Since 2017, Rob has operated as an independent financial management consultant and trainer working with UK and International NGOs on a wide range of assignments to help improve both organisational and individual’s capacity.
