Charity Fundraising Ltd are a team of fundraising consultants providing a comprehensive range of fundraising consultancy and strategic services to Charities and other established not-for-profit organisations within the UK. Services range from grant and contract bid writing and review to developing fundraising strategies and providing an expert charity evaluation service.
We uphold the highest professional standards in all that we do. We are members of the Association of Fundraising Consultants and sit on the Board of Directors. We are a corporate member of the Institute of Fundraising and all of our consultants follow their Code of Practice. We are approved NCVO consultants and we are also ISO9001 certified, demonstrating our commitment to quality assurance.
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Graham Parker
Director & Senior ConsultantGraham is the Director of Charity Fundraising Ltd, a business with a social purpose which he founded in 2000. Graham has been involved in voluntary sector work and fundraising for over 40 years, achieving specialist expertise and a track record of success in achieving grant and contract funding for a wide range of revenue and capital projects.
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Paul Parker
DirectorA full member of the Institute of Fundraising, Paul has over 20 years of experience working with a huge range of Charities. His work has spanned: research, strategic advice, mentoring, bid and tender writing, evaluations, fundraising strategies and more. Paul’s work has directly secured well in excess of £10 Million for clients as well as providing the skills and support for clients themselves to achieve substantial organisational growth.
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Steph Prentis
Senior Fundraising ConsultantSteph started working in the field of community regeneration in 2006 with an employment and training contractor supporting disadvantaged individuals. Since 2009, Steph has focused solely upon supporting Charities to successfully fundraise, strengthen their organisations and improve the services they provide to local people. Her work with them focuses on developing effective and robust fundraising and income generation strategies, successfully bidding for large grants and tenders, developing effective monitoring and evaluation processes and undertaking charity evaluations.
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Kathryn McDonald
Fundraising ConsultantKathryn has spent over 14 years working with voluntary sector organisations. She joined Charity Fundraising Ltd in 2009, having previously worked in the public sector and for a social welfare charity. Kathryn is a Full Certified Member of the Institute of Fundraising (MinstFDip) after successfully completing the Open University qualification. She also holds a BA (Hons) degree in Geography and Education.
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Daniel Greenwood
Fundraising ConsultantDaniel has been a Major Relationships Fundraiser for over 20 years and specialises in generating charitable income through grants, philanthropy and corporate partnerships. He has raised over £7million for health, environmental and animal welfare causes, including well-known charities such as the Royal British Legion and smaller causes.
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Hannah Roots
Fundraising ConsultantHannah is a full certified member of the Institute of Fundraising (MinstFCert), with over 10 years experience in the charitable sector, specialising in grant fundraising. Prior to joining Charity Fundraising Ltd Hannah’s career as a professional fundraiser spanned local, regional and national health charities in the fields of palliative care, emergency medicine and research. Hannah holds an Institute of Leadership and Management qualification and an MA from the University of Cambridge.
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Fay Cope
Fundraising ConsultantFay has been working in the charity sector since 2004, initially in supporter care before focussing on Trust and Statutory Fundraising in 2011. Since then she has successfully raised over £3 million in funds from Trusts & Foundations, Big Lottery Fund, and Statutory grants and contracts. Her experience includes developing fundraising strategies, monitoring and reporting, developing face to face approaches to engaging with grant funders, supporting project/new business development and supporter care.
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Lauren James
Fundraising ConsultantLauren has 14 years experience in the voluntary sector with 9 of those in fundraising roles and 5 years project development and management. Her fundraising experience spans trusts and foundations, community, corporate and major donors. She is experienced in managing major projects leading both staff and volunteers. Prior to joining Charity Fundraising Ltd, Lauren worked for a variety of health and social welfare charities including youth, offender rehabilitation, cancer and LGBT charities.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to some frequently asked questions
Our consultancy services are charged per job or per day. Once we have an understanding of a client’s needs, we will provide a costed proposal for them to consider. We strive to offer excellent value for money and our client feedback confirms we achieve this. Our fees fairly represent the value of our experience and remain highly competitive in relation to the fees charged by many other Fundraising Consultants.
No, Charity Fundraising Ltd only works on a day fee basis and advises trustees / management of charities to avoid commission arrangements with professional fundraisers. Our professional body, the Institute of Fundraising also strongly recommends against commission arrangements.
Our fees tend to represent between 5 – 20% of total funds raised for our clients however we cannot make any guarantees in this respect. Our best result to date has been grant income of over 100 times our fees. We aim to ensure good value by only working for clients at a level that is appropriate and affordable to their organisation. We will only work with a prospective client if we are confident that we can achieve success for them. Working with Charity Fundraising Ltd also offers additional intangible benefits such as developing management and fundraising skills and procedures in house and supporting long term strategy development. Fundraising is becoming increasingly competitive but our knowledge and experience built up over many years enables us to give your campaign the best possible chance of success.
We provide a more limited range of services to small and start-up organisations. In most cases we recommend one of our training courses, however, we can also provide business planning / fundraising strategies. Small or start-up charities without a track record of successful service delivery and financial management tend to attract only small grants and donations. Therefore in many cases it will not be cost effective to use a consultant to provide fundraising services for these organisations. For locally focussed community organisations, free support and advice is usually available through your nearest council for voluntary service. A directory of these is available from NAVCA. The Charity Commission can also offer advice on incorporating and registering as a charity.
Yes, we have a lot of experience supporting Social Enterprises in business planning, training, fundraising and generating income. We will also consider sources of finance that are particularly suited to social enterprises, such as loans and venture philanthropy.
We have a whole team of consultants with experience across a huge range of the voluntary and not-for-profit sector. Charity Fundraising Ltd has provided consultancy services to well over 200 organisations and delivered training to countless more. Some of our previous clients are listed on our website but please get in touch for specific relevant examples. Specific thematic areas in which our consultants have extensive experience, include:
- Health including mental and physical disability and autism
- Welfare of the young, elderly and disadvantaged including BME groups
- Education, particularly for disadvantaged groups
- International Development
- Work with offenders, ex-offenders and those at risk of offending
- Drug and alcohol misuse
Yes, however we do get a lot of enquiries about our services, so to prevent our existing clients from getting inundated with reference requests we ask prospective clients not to contact these until the final stages of agreeing a contract. At this stage we are happy to provide named referees and contact details.
No, we work with clients across the UK and beyond. Outside the UK our work tends to be mainly with large, well established organisations.
Fundraising Consultant Jobs
We are always interested to hear from people with experience and skills in line with the services we offer. Please contact us with your cv.