For Charities

The UK's Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector contributed £17.8 billion to the economy in 2020/21 and continues to play a critical role in levelling up across UK regions, particularly in the North of England.

However, recent data from The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) shows that three in five UK charities are seeing increased demand for their services, while many are navigating staff and volunteer shortages, funding uncertainty, and the need to demonstrate fundraising/income results more clearly than ever when everything costs more.

Being a leader of a VCSE organisation can be tough. So whether you are reviewing your fundraising and income generation opportunities or simply need some space to reset, then the The Purpose Brief will equip you with the insight you need to understand more about social good.

Our Strategic Counsel

One size does not fit all. From fundraising strategy development to supporting talented fundraisers to flourish and unlock the best funders, we can help you build the resilience you need and help you rethink your capacity to approach fundraising from trusts/foundations, corporate and major gift benefactors.

If you want to shift the dial on your fundraising, we can help you look more strategically at your fundraising. This includes (but it not limited to):

• Prospect identification - we will review your stakeholders differently to look at best fit with potential funders
• Finding the right alignment between your case for support and your stakeholders
• Advocacy building with senior leadership teams, volunteers or trustees
• Talent development - coaching to hone the potential of your team and build resilient business focused fundraisers confident in their pitches.
• Fundraising bids and grant writing - we can give you direction on how to scale up your bids.

We work with you to develop your ideas and often proposed a retained consultancy contract over a set period of months.