It started on the street - in conversation Richard Dalgety of Emerald Fundraising

Richard is a legend of face to face fundraising. Starting as a teacher, Richard has worked all over the world. He always brings his enormous force of personality and incredible energy to everything he does. I have many memories of working with and around Richard and he is a hugely positive and passionate person and always fun to be around. After working around the world, he is based out of Dublin running his very successful agency, Emeral Fundraising.

 "I liked the idea. We were a little bit anti-establishment and we were a bit, we were a bit, groundbreaking in the way that we were doing."

" I was teaching classrooms full of boys...in a rural part of Nepal and realising that the charities like Save the Children,Unicef, Oxfam, could make a big difference in, in a country like that."

" I wasn't particularly motivated by bonuses or money at the time. I was really just motivated with wanting to make a difference and wanting to be the best fundraiser on my team."

 "it's so important to listen to people and have regular weekly contact with them in person. "

 " I sometimes put a jacket on myself and fundraise, for half a day. "

" Half of our teams here in Ireland are door to door and Irish people love talking, and Irish people love talking on their doorstep."