UK for UNHCR
Richard Casson serves as Senior Manager of Digital Fundraising at UK for UNHCR since January 2024. Prior to this role, Richard was Email Marketing Manager at Torchbox from August 2022 to January 2024. Richard has extensive experience with Greenpeace UK, where roles included Senior Direct Marketing Executive for both email and social media campaigns, as well as Digital Engagement Lead for the Clean Air Now campaign. Previous to Greenpeace, Richard worked at Oxfam from August 2007 to April 2014, contributing as Digital Producer, Social Media Editor, and Digital Campaigner, notable for managing content and mobilizing online support during significant fundraising campaigns. Richard began a career in communications at Global Link Development Education Centre from 2005 to 2007. Richard holds a BSc in Computer Science from Lancaster University, earned between September 2001 and August 2004.
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UK for UNHCR is the United Nations Refugee Agency’s national charity for the United Kingdom. Our corporate, trust and foundation partnerships, as well as the generosity of individual supporters, help UNHCR protect people forced to flee conflict, violence and persecution. Our work supports emergency relief operations as well as longer term care to help refugees rebuild their lives, such as healthcare, education and livelihoods programmes. UNHCR operates on more than 120 countries, including major humanitarian crises such as Syria, Yemen, Venezuela and South Sudan. With only 1% of UNHCR’s budget funded by the United Nations, partnerships and donations are critical to UNHCR’s humanitarian work across the world. UK for UNHCR is a registered charity (England & Wales) no. 1183415. ********* UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is the lead United Nations agency dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced people, asylum seekers and stateless persons.