{"id":19,"date":"2022-02-28T19:51:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T17:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clientprojecttest.net\/jill\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:13:08","slug":"about-jill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jillritchie.name\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"About Jill"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A born entrepreneur, I started my first business at the age of 18 while also studying. By 28, I had created jobs for 120 people in a factory with seven retail outlets. However, I was spending more time doing voluntary rather than paid work. I then entered the non-profit sector part time while also writing and started my own fundraising consultancy and book publishing business, which I have run for over three decades, with offices in the UK and South Africa. I have had over 100 magazine articles published and have edited seven books and written\u00a0<\/span>over 30<\/span>. Writing and editing remain my first love.<\/span><\/p>

I am a mother, grandmother, vegetarian, butterfly lover and writer with more book ideas than I am likely to live to see in print. I have raised over ZAR2 billion for southern African non-profit organisations. I focus on the area that I know best: raising money from the UK for universities and non-profits globally. I also advise on self-published books and offer editing\/proofreading services.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Despite my world of work having been in the not-for-profit sector for over thirty years, I have never let up on my voluntary commitments. For instance, I was active in humanitarian aspects of the anti-apartheid movement \u2013 caring for family members of Robben Island prisoners. Together with the late Father Basil van Rensburg, in the 1980s and early 1990s, I drove initiatives to enable South Africans \u2013 black and white \u2013 to meet \u2013 not has master and servant\/employer and employee \u2013 but as people, as South Africans \u2013 to overcome fear and mistrust \u2013 to change hearts and minds \u2013 in preparation on the ground \u2013 for the end of the evil of apartheid. Aside from serving on non-profit boards, I continue to give of my time voluntarily for causes close to my heart.<\/p>

I am an active trainer and public speaker (having attained the highest level within Toastmasters International).<\/p>

I am an \u2018ideas person\u2019, regularly overwhelming my team with innovative concepts that they are required to assist in implementing. I was a social entrepreneur before the term was coined. My philosophy in my career has always been: \u2018doing business while doing good.\u2019 My passions are travel (have been to over 40 countries and counting), reading and history, with a special interest in the Second World War.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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About Jill Ritchie Qualifications Achievements Memorable Moments About Jill Ritchie A born entrepreneur, I started my first business at the age of 18 while also studying. By 28, I had created jobs for 120 people in a factory with seven retail outlets. However, I was spending more time doing voluntary rather than paid work. I …<\/p>\n

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