News

We're delighted to have secured Mencap a grant of £120,000 from the Innovation in Giving Fund to create a new giving website designed to  help children fundraise for their favourite causes.

Mencap expect to work with JustGiving to create the platform, which will launch in 2013.
We're delighted that we were able to help Tyneside Mind successfully raise almost £230,000 from the Dept. of Health Volunteering Fund.

The money will be used to help young people exercise greater choice and control over the care they receive from their GP. 
We are delighted that our application for £193,787 to the Silver Dreams Fund for Age UK Barrow & District beat over 1,400 other applicants to become one of the final 30 selected by the BIG Lottery Fund.

As a result, the charity will be launching Barrow RespectAbility later this year, enabling 300 older people to establish and run 6 community ventures in one of England's most deprived boroughs.

We are very pleased to have had a close involvement in not one but two successful Social Action Fund bids!

We led Mind's bid for over £400,000 and advised Mencap on their successful application for more than £600,000.

Fundraising
poundA good deal of our work is helping charities grow through developing and expanding their fundraising. 


Because we have direct experience of having run fundraising programmes from within charities using most of the major fundraising disciplines, we not only have the ability to consult and advise, but we also have the hands-on expertise to just get on and do. Therefore, we can work with you to develop your fundraising strategy, we can prepare your Case(s) for Support, we can help recruit your team and we can implement key aspects of your programme in the interim.

We have particular strength in increasing the capacity of fundraising teams by running one-off fundraising programmes, for example, a major application to the Lottery. Such bids can, of course, significantly increase income but they can be very time consuming for an already stretched in-house team. Having succesfully won bids from £10,000 to £16 million, we know what it takes to win.  
 

Recruitment & Coaching

Consultancy

We can help you grow your people, either by recruiting new team members or providing an experienced coach and mentor. 

We have personally recruited hundreds of people over the years, either to work for us directly, or on behalf of our clients.

These appointments have ranged from Fundraising Directors to Fundraising Assistants. Of course specialist recruitment consultancies can provide a great service here too, but we have the added benefit of having actually done the roles we recruit for ourselves - which provides an unbeatable insight.

We are passionate about the benefits of Coaching & Mentoring, and have many years experience in coaching team members and more widely. We can provide you with an experienced coach.

 ConsultancyIncreasingly we are asked to help our clients grow in many diverse ways.


Through our unique experience acquired working at a senior level for some of the world's biggest corporations and also directly for charities, we can deploy our commercial skills and our knowledge of the voluntary sector in a variety of situations.

For example, we can help you develop and assess a business case for a new venture. We can help you prepare a bid (on your own or with partners) for a service contract.

We can use our background in Quality Management to help you assess the extent to which you are meeting your service users' needs.