Cut me I bleed blue….JOKE….
The idea is that many small ‘local’ charities cannot afford to employ a full time fundraiser and many don’t have a CEO or even a Project Manager and the Trustees struggle as they are giving their time for free, many of them working. Most funders will allow you to put around £2k in for consultancy fees for evaluation of projects at their end, I can do this, funding, sourcing other income streams, setting up social enterprises, project evaluation, volunteer management and setting up of policies and procedures, writing business plans and fundraising strategies for a fee without the need to employ anyone full time.
There are a lot of fundraising consultants around who can write bids for people but doesn’t seem to be any in the NW who offer a whole package for future strategy including tendering for council work which most charities don’t have a clue about but are going to expected to do.
I almost sound like I know what I’m talking about.