Dr Claire Routley FCIoF(AdvDip)
United Kingdom
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Consultancy director
Legacy Futures
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Claire has worked in fundraising for almost 20 years, in a variety of roles for charities from a local hospice to Age UK. For the last 15 years, she has specialised in legacy fundraising, in 2011 completing a PhD looking at the relationship between people’s life histories and the charities they choose to support with a legacy, as well as how legacy giving may enable them to live on into the future. Since 2013, she has worked as a consultant advising charities on all aspects of legacy giving, as well as tutoring for the Chartered Institute of Fundraising across its fundraising qualifications.
Areas of interest
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Legacy fundraising
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Links between research and practice
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Teaching/fundraising qualifications
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Fundraising strategy and management.
Rogare involvement
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Claire is the longest serving volunteer with Rogare
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Member of Rogare Council 2025 to date​
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Project leader – Legacy Fundraising Ethics During Emergencies
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Co-author (with Cherian Koshy) of paper in the Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing special issue on fundraising ethics on applying theory to ethical dilemmas.
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Editor of praxis paper series
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Critical Fundraising blogger
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Book review: Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos, by Heidi K Gardner
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Contributor – Theory of Change working group
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Panel member – epistemology in fundraising, Ask Direct Summer School 2018
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Member of International Advisory Panel 2014-20
