Meg Abdy

Meg is responsible for project management and social research at Legacy Foresight. She has been analysing the legacy market since 1994, when she managed the original Henley Centre for Forecasting (now the Futures Company) Legacy Forecasting Project. Meg regularly speaks at charity conferences and her view on the future of the sector is frequently featured in the third-sector press.

With responsibility for the Legacy Monitor programme as well as ad hoc research projects, Meg is particularly interested in the issues facing mid-sized charities.

In addition to her work in the legacy marketplace, Meg specialises in strategic planning, social innovation and intelligent funding.  Her clients include the Clore Duffield Foundation, the Kings Fund, NESTA and the Charity Commission.

Chris Farmelo

Chris specialises in quantitative modelling, forecasting  and scenario planning at Legacy Foresight. An economist by training, his expertise extends to pricing, revenue modelling and market sizing. What sets Chris’s work apart from more traditional econometric modelling is his interest in the impact of changing social/demographic structures and behaviour – a key feature of the legacy sector.

He was closely involved in the original Henley Centre for Forecasting (now the Futures Company) Legacy Forecasting Project in 1994, when he was the company’s Managing Director, with overall responsibility for the economics and modelling practices. Since then Chris has worked on a variety of projects relating to legacies and donations for charities ranging from Guide Dogs and Save the Children to St Dunstan's and St Wilfrid's Hospice.

Beyond his work for Legacy Foresight, Chris’s interests include advising CAF and NCVO and futures consultancy through the Trajectory Partnership.