How can i help?
If you work for a charity that wants to increase the amount of money you’re raising from trusts and foundations, you’re in the right place.
I’m here to help your trusts income grow, whether that’s through expert advice, practical tools or hands on coaching for you and your team, here are some of the ways I can help:
“We’ve worked with Alicia for over six months and she’s been an invaluable resource to our Trust Fundraising programme at Princess Alice Hospice. She has undertaken a review of our Trust file, identified key prospects and progressed these to submitted applications. As a result of her input, we have secured over £80,000 in income with several outcomes still pending. Alicia has also built-up cases for need in several areas of work, working with colleagues across the Hospice to gather information and create bids. She is an excellent bid writer and a pleasure to work with.”
- MICHELLE GULLIVER, PRINCESS ALICE HOSPICE
I work with clients to:
Set up your trust fundraising programme from scratch, making sure you’ve got a case for support in place, a toolkit of resources and a qualified list of initial prospects to get you started.
Review your current programme by benchmarking your performance against sector peers, reviewing your applications and identifying new prospects to apply to.
Streamline your processes and systems, identifying what’s getting in your way of being more effective and efficient with your time.
Provide bid-writing support on an interim basis.
Review applications to highlight what’s working and where improvements can be made.
Identify new prospects and opportunities to diversify your pipeline.
“We’ve raised over £1million to support our work”
Alicia has been supporting us at Age UK Sutton, with bid writing and fundraising capacity building, since 2020. As a result of Alicia’s support, we’ve raised over £1m to support our work in the London Borough of Sutton, developed our fundraising strategy, and built capacity in our small charity to plan and manage grant funded programmes. Alicia has a strong understanding of the impact of smaller charities and how we can demonstrate that to funders, and also valuable insight into the joys – and challenges – of being a small organisation where fundraising is critical, but not a distinct staff function.
Because of the funds Alicia has helped us to raise, Age UK Sutton has supported thousands of people through the Covid pandemic crisis, and we’ve more helped older people that ever before to manage major life events like financial worries, bereavement, housing problems and loneliness. Put simply, because of Alicia’s support, older people in Sutton who are facing major struggles, have better lives. What I especially appreciate is that I think Alicia cares as much about this as we do.
-NICOLA UPTON, CEO AGE UK SUTTON
“Alicia is awesome. I got so much working with Alicia personally and professionally and felt she also provided mentorship as well as executing our grants and foundation strategy. She helped with the process behind grant applications as well as applying for a large sum of funding through the application process and has set us up as a charity to be in a much better position both process wise and financially as well. I would 100% work with Alicia again.”
- gemma hillier-moses, move against cancer
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