helping YOUR charity grow: A structured approach to fundraising

Understanding my consultancy services

Coaching, training teams, and working with trustees

I work with a number of charities on an ongoing basis with a tailored approach developed after conducting an audit with the client. This audit tackles five key areas:

1) Strategic Planning

2) Communications: the way you communicate with your stakeholders

3) Fundraising: your history, sources, and methodology

4) Database Management: systems and capacity

5) Development Calendar including key events, programmes, and donor stewardship: your focus through the year

With this historical understanding, we can then seek to build key structures for your charity to grow, including:

  • Developing compelling cases for support

  • Focusing on the donor journey

  • Working with trusts and foundations

  • Implementing a development and comms calendar with your team

  • Working with your board

Read testimonials below.

BOOK YOUR FREE CONSULTATION.

  • 30 minute discussion

  • Share your vision, current situation, challenges, and dreams for your charity

  • See if you think I could support you in your mission and with your growth plan

testimonials

"David has years of experience as a development consultant, and that has shown in the way he has helped us to steer our organisation in the past two years. As a consultant, and indeed as a mentor, David has been helpful to both myself and the board of trustees, helping us to develop our organisational strategy and goals. He has also been of immense help in regard to establishing contacts in the fundraising world, and in the process helping us to raise our profile here in the UK. Due to David's honest character, he is easy to work with, and I now also view him, not just as a development consultant, but as a personal friend, as well as a true friend of our organisation".        

— Steve Lancaster, UK Director "The Word for the World Bible Translators".  

“At the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, we have hugely benefitted from David’s professional skills and wisdom in fundraising. More than that, I cannot speak highly enough of what David brings in himself, his graciousness, humility, spirituality, and the alignment between who he is and his work.

— PAUL BENDOR-SAMUEL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OXFORD CENTRE FOR MISSION STUDIES

“David is fantastic to work with, and gave us confidence that raising a daunting seven-figure amount was possible (to date we’ve already raised more than 80% of this). But perhaps more importantly, having him alongside us gave us the reassurance that we were targeting our limited time as effectively as possible. We now have a much better idea of how to approach future campaigns.

— CEO, CHRISTIAN CHARITY