High Value Funding and Strategy

Bio

I've worked in the voluntary sector since 2003, starting in community programmes and moving into Trusts & Foundations and statutory fundraising in 2008. Since then I've worked in some of the UK's largest charities and some really tiny ones (both UK and international development), specialising in Trusts & Foundations, Philanthropy, Lottery and EU funding. I do all things related to these funding streams: strategy, comms, training, trustee and SLT support, prospect research, bid development, writing and editing, reporting, interim cover for staff gaps, policy, landscape mapping, and anything else you might think of!

Outside of this, I’m a trustee for a small LGBTQ+ health charity, a museum volunteer, a book/ history/ art nerd, a rescue dog owner, a coffee lover, and a yoga-goer.

Key Skills

• A comprehensive understanding of how high value fundraising works

• Proposal development, from four-figure asks to multi-million £ ones

• Supporting non-fundraisers to work with fundraising teams

• Prospect research and matching

• Strategy and communications refreshes

Location

Buckinghamshire

Clients

ActionAid International, Crohn's & Colitis UK, Hope for the Future, NACCOM, OUTpatients, Refuge, Refugee Council

When I'm not working I...

love to rummage through second-hand fairs and salvage yards