Patricia Castanha - Associate Consultant

Patricia Castanha runs her own business  and works with Richmond Associates on a freelance project basis. She has worked in fundraising for nearly two decades, primarily with national cultural organisations. At the start of her career she was on the development staff of English National Opera, then campaign director for a capital project with the Aldeburgh Festival and later director of development and marketing at the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2002 she began consulting and has undertaken projects for English National Ballet School, the Tate Gallery, Somerset House Trust and the Royal Academy of Arts, among others. Work has encompassed both capital and revenue fundraising strategy and activity.

From June 2005 until October 2009 she directed the campaign for the Renewal of St Martin-in-the-Fields, a £36 million capital restoration and construction project, now virtually complete, with over £35.9 million secured from public and private sources in the UK, the USA and Hong Kong.

She is currently leading a campaign for the Britten-Pears Foundation, based at Benjamin Britten’s and Peter Pears’ home, The Red House, in Suffolk, for a variety of local, national and international initiatives to celebrate Britten’s centenary in 2013.