Helping individuals and organisations create meaningful change through philanthropy

How I can add value to your work

I've listed below some of the services I can offer to your charity or not-for-profit organisation. However, I am open to discussions about other ways in which I can add value and offer strategic and practical support.

Strategic audit

Helping you assess the effectiveness of your fundraising and whether you are making the very most of opportunities to generate the income and support your organisation needs to deliver meaningful change.

A fundraising strategic audit provides an independent and evidenced evaluation of your activities, capturing key learning points and helping to inform your future plans.

Fundraising strategy

Ensuring you have the right roadmap to achieve your organisational mission and one which sets out planned and sustained efforts to maximise funding opportunities over time.

Developing a fundraising strategy helps organisations to set realistic objectives, to identify diverse funding sources, select fundraising methods and channels, determine the resources needed for success and agree how to monitor your progress.

Prospect identification

With so many worthy causes, securing new and sustained philanthropic support from individuals and organisations is increasingly competitive. Whether embarking on fundraising for the first time or needing to take a fresh look at potential supporters for diversification, prospect identification support will help expand your pool.

Using a range of tools, new giving potential can be identified, as well as exploring pathways and connections from prospective donors to your organisation. Furthermore, existing prospect pipelines can benefit from review and reprioritisation, providing new and additional insights.

Your fundraising story

The foundation of effective philanthropy and stakeholder engagement is a concise, compelling and authentic story – your case for support.

Your fundraising story should articulate your vision of a better future and be able to capture hearts and minds, both externally and as importantly, internally. The best cases for support bring your cause to life, using the strongest messages and impact statements – and are co-produced by key individuals across your organisation.

Interim leadership & mentoring

Occasionally, charities may need additional capacity or specialist knowledge to bridge staffing gaps, strengthen existing teams or to inject specific skills and experience. Effective interim support can help take advantage of time-limited opportunities or to keep momentum going during a transition.

Another option is commissioning mentoring support for an individual staff member or a team to enable organisations to ‘grow their own’ practitioners by expanding knowledge bases and increasing confidence levels.

Feasibility studies

In short, a feasibility study is a tool to help organisations assess their readiness and capacity to embark on a fundraising journey – whether this be a specific campaign or simply proactively fundraising for your cause for the first time.

A feasibility study ensures that a charity is ready – internally and externally – to pursue its goals and whether the targets set are realistic, but also sufficiently ambitious. A thorough performance and infrastructure analysis, followed by structured donor and stakeholder interviews will result in evidenced-based recommendations, including both quantitative and qualitative feedback and information.