Fundraising Services
As a team of experienced fundraisers, we are uniquely placed to offer tailored support to meet a wide range of fundraising needs in the third sector. We bring with us a wide range of experience and diverse skills, flexibility and creativity.
Jane and Jhumar along with our well-developed network of associates have been responsible for raising millions of pounds for charities across sectors and sizes. We can help you make a difference and increase your voluntary income.
We offer free two hour consultations should you wish to discuss your situation with us and how we might be able to help. Following the free consultation, if we are able to help, we would draw up a proposal summarising our discussions, knowledge of your organisation and needs, key deliverables, the timeline and our fee structure.
Please contact a member of our team to book your free consultation.
Major Donor, Corporate and Capital Campaign Fundraising
Our team has raised over £80 million for capital projects and from major donors and companies. We help our clients to set up and deliver fundraising from high net worth individuals and corporates. We work closely with the organisation in the following ways:
- Conducting feasibility studies
- Developing and implementing appropriate strategies and plans
- Developing suitable internal processes (databases, reporting and budgeting)
- Creating cases for support
- Recruiting and managing development boards
- Prospect identification and research
- Identifying and developing charity and business partnerships
- Prospect planning and cultivation including contact mapping exercises
- Developing ethics policies
- Coaching Trustees, senior volunteers, development board members and senior management in ‘making the ask’
- Developing stewardship and continuity plans
- Organising high value events like Royal events
- Advising on recruiting appropriate and talented staff
“They quickly grasped the key issues amd undertook thorough and detailed research which helped us to take decisions on the way forward with confidence. The team exceeded our expectations in terms of knowledge, skills and quality of deliverables.”
Gary Hall, CEO – Coventry Transport Museum
Trusts/ Statutory
Every member of our has significant experience in writing bids and grant applications. We are able to help not just with writing but also with mentoring and guidance to help you pull together high quality bids and applications. If this is a fundraising stream you are looking to create or broaden, we can help by:
- Conducting a feasibility study
- Conducting research to identify opportunities and potential grant sources Developing and implementing an appropriate strategy
- Developing suitable internal processes (databases, reporting and budgeting)
- Creating a cass for support
- Writing grant applications for Trusts and family foundations
- Writing grant applications for the public sector, EU and Lottery funding
- Mentoring staff and editing applications
Individuals
We understand that revenue fundraising and raising income from individuals can be a daunting prospect as there are so many different paths to take and pulling them together in a cohesive and sensible fundraising mix can prove challenging.
Our years of experience have helped us develop technical expertise in the following areas:
- Direct Mail
- Legacy Fundraising
- Membership and audience development
- Alumni development
- Online giving and Social networking
We can help by:
- Conducting fundraising audits
- Devising bespoke strategies and plans
- Running focus groups for testing messages
- Benchmarking exercises to help understand the market and competitors
- Capacity building to sustain these streams.
“Jane Hellings brought to us a wealth of experience and helped us to check all the detailed assumptions within the costing plans as well as benchmarking our organisation and its activities.”
Euton Daley, Artistic Director – PegasusTheatreTrust
Grant making
For grant making trusts with minimal secretariats we can help in a number of ways. We can research areas of need (locally, regionally and nationally) to identify gaps in provision or emerging demographic trends in order to inform grant giving policy.
Our consultants have worked for grant givers to set and review policy and assess applications.We can assist with designing information for applicants, review and/or design application and selection procedures and criteria.We can also offer an application assessment and shortlisting service.
