What we do
Fundraising Support
We love helping charities to tell authentic stories about their work and impact.
We are excited about helping you to find potential supporters, secure their donation and keep them as long term contributors to your cause.
Fundraising is an essential part of charities work and without it you could not support your beneficiaries, participants or staff.
With our support you will be able to reach more people.
Grants, Trusts & Foundations
Do you want to find more trusts who want to fund you?
How can you improve your success rate?
Does your Case for Support need a refresh or do you need help writing more compelling bids?
We can help you increase your success rate and income.
Income Diversification
A good range of income streams helps an organisation to be more financially resilient and can decrease the impact of reduced funding in one income area.
Many not-for-profits are unsure how to start new income streams.
That is where we can help!
Relationship Management
Underpinning successful fundraising needs to be fantastic stewardship to build long term relationships.
Relationships need to be personal, supported, appropriate and at times unexpected.
We can help you ensure your funders and donors are long term partners.
How we can help you
Grants, Trusts & Foundations
Pipeline: Identify how to find the right funders for you.
We can help you improve your prospecting and research and move from reactive to proactive fundraising.
Proposal: Ensure your storytelling brings your work to life.
We can help refresh your fundraising case for support, case studies and proposals.
We can help you stand out.
Plan: Create a plan that you can implement and sustain long term.
We can review your teams capacity and competencies to ensure your action plan leads to results.
Income Diversification
Diagnosis: Understand your Untapped Potential for new income streams.
We can help you audit where you are and identify your potential mix of income.
Develop: Recognise what you need to do to ‘get your ducks in a row’.
We can help you establish your challenges and opportunities to mobilise for results.
Deliver: Create a plan that you can implement and sustain long term.
We can help you remove obstacles to funding and implement your plan.
Relationship Management
Ideas: Ensure that your database is helping you effectively manage relationships.
We can help you get the best value from your data.
Information: Understand and exceed funders requirements and expectations.
We can help you ensure that you meet and beat your funders expectations.
Implementation: Create a stewardship and relationship management plan.
We can help you frame an effective implementation plan that gets results.
Other support we can offer
Interim management: talk to us if you need some extra help in fundraising for a short period as you recruit new staff or have an unexpected staff illness.
Training: get in touch if you would like a workshop for your team.
Case for Support and Bid Writing: ask us about refreshing your case for support or writing specific bids.
Trusts and Foundation Prospecting: we can help with a list of trusts and foundations for specific projects or core funding.
Fundraising Strategy: ask us to review or write your fundraising strategy.
Evaluation and monitoring: contact us if you would like to develop an evaluation outcome framework, more effective data gathering or develop ways to better understand your data.
Learn with us
Training in 2025 - click to see the list
If you want more information about the training please follow the logo links below.
Inclusion Barnet
13th January 12:30pm: Fundraising 101: Introduction to fundraising
20th January 12.30pm: Measuring your Impact: Making the most of your evaluation and monitoring
West Sussex Links
25th April, 12-2pm: Meet the funder
14th May 10-11.30: Prospecting and Research: How do you find the right funders for you?
12th June, 10-11.30: Measuring your Impact: Making the most of your evaluation and monitoring for your fundraising.
15th July 1-2.30: Writing for Impact: How can you make your applications and letters to trusts and foundations stand out?
August: No Session
10th September, 10-11.30: Ask Lucy Anything About Fundraising!
16th October, 1-2.30pm: Untapped Fundraising Potential: How can you find new ways to raise funds?
Tues 4 November, 6-7.30: Trustee Training – Fundraising: Where can trustees start?
Tues 9th December, 10-11.30: Managing your relationships with your donors and funders.
National Arts Fundraising School
Online Spring: 3rd March – 1st April 2025. Structured pre-recorded video modules at your own pace with 1.5 hour live online coaching/tutorial sessions: 3-4, 10-11, 14, 17-18, 24-26, 31 March and 1st April 2025.
In person: 7th-11th April 2025 at Mere Court Hotel.
In person: 29 September- 3rd October 2025 at Mere Court Hotel.
Online Autumn: 20th October – 18th November 2025. Structured pre-recorded video modules at your own pace with 1.5 hour live online coaching/tutorial sessions: 20-21, 27-28 October and 3-4, 10-11, 17-18 November 2025.
“Lucy is my absolute go-to freelancer when I need extra capacity. Reliable & thorough, she always delivers on time and to budget. Her specialism in grants – writing and researching – is particularly impressive too.”
Dana Segal
Rebellious Humanitarian, Adapt for Arts
“I had several years experience of writing bids, but I learned new skills from Lucy that helped me succeed in winning the bid I worked with her on and I’m succeeding even more now and should do so in future."
Rebecca Ayres
MD, Sound City
“The charity were reviewing their fundraising strategy and Lucy led three brilliant workshops to help us arrive at a strategy that is solid, will produce results but is also realistic and well planned."
Eva Eriksson
Chief Executive, Grace Eyre Foundation