Graham Allcott

Graham Allcott, FRSA, is a former CEO of Student Volunteering England, co-founder of the international volunteering charity InterVol and is currently a productivity consultant at his company, Think Productive. Graham also runs Fruitful Consulting, a social enterprise offering training and consultancy to the UK voluntary sector.

Between 2004 - 2007 he was the Chief Executive of Student Volunteering England, a charity that supported student community action and volunteering projects in England, it has since been merged into Volunteering England. Between 2001 - 2004 Graham led the establishment of the University of Birmingham's Involve (volunteering) and InterVol (international volunteering) projects; InterVol is now a registered charity in the United Kingdom and has raised over £100,000 for grass-roots organisations in developing countries over the past eight years.

Graham was also the first chair of the board of trustees of READ International, a recycling charity sending educational text books to Tanzania (where he remains a trustee) and he is also a board member at Centrepoint, the UK's largest charity for homeless young people and The Choir With No Name.

Graham is a regular blogger about productivity, through his Think Productive Love Your Work Blog and he regularly contributes to other publications. In November 2010 he was invited to provide a guest article for Virgin's celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week and in April 2011 he was interviewed for The Guardian about time management and productivity.