“Sarah has brought us energy and creativity to our fundraising strategy. Sarah has helped us to look at our relationships with funders from a different perspective,  maximising on other opportunities we were not aware of. Thank you Sarah for all your ongoing support and personalised service. Working with you has been fantastic and was well worth the investment.”

Suzannah Cook, CEO, Care Home Volunteers.

“Working with Sarah during the past 6 months or so has been a genuine revelation in terms of understanding what makes a credible bid for funding.

In challenging times, it has really helped to have Sarah’s confident, direct guidance and expertise informing our approach. Thanks to Sarah we recently secured a grant of £120,000, which will make a huge difference to us and our service users.”

David Derbyshire, CEO of children’s continence charity ERIC.

“Sarah’s input has been a mix of strategic and operational. Her background knowledge in trust fundraising has been a great help, both in drafting original copy for bids, and reviewing and critiquing work within the team. Sarah’s ability to grasp the requirements of a trust application, and communicate clearly through written copy is excellent. Sarah is also giving significant insights into our strategic development, helping us to identify priorities, and generate clear and realistic plans to take our fundraising on the next stage of its journey. I highly recommend Sarah for her professional skills, and her personal approach.”

Sean Tully, Fundraising Manager, Cinnamon Network.

“I began working with Sarah as someone new to trust fundraising to gain insight into the process of successful bid writing. Sarah has reviewed many of our bids across a wide range of projects, including both the proposition and the budget and asking pertinent questions which helped us to focus our strategy. It’s wonderful working with Sarah, she provides detailed feedback and a really friendly ear. Sarah’s support has been invaluable.”

Katie Short, Fundraising Officer, Christian Blind Mission (CBM).

“I have learnt so much from Sarah. She is genuine and passionate. She cares about making a difference to charities and she is very skilled at writing. I also think it incredible how quickly she seems to ‘get’ the cause she’s working with.

With Sarah’s support over the past three years, our income from major giving grew significantly.”

Amy Tatum, Major Giving Team, Alzheimer’s Research UK.

“We recently asked Sarah to carry out an audit of our trust fundraising and to seek her professional advice about how we could make some improvements to this area of our work. We found Sarah to be an excellent resource, combining her wealth of experience, her strategic insights and her warm and engaging manner. Inviting a consultant in and exposing organisational weaknesses can be a rather daunting exercise but we found that Sarah brought empathy and understanding which made it far easier to go through the process. At the end of three days’ work, Sarah delivered a comprehensive report which covered a range of issues from the strategic to the operational and raised some key areas where change was needed. We hope to be able to further engage Sarah as we work through her recommendations and just wanted to say a huge thank you.”

Mary Oakes, Director of Development, Innovista.

“Sarah’s expertise across the fundraising spectrum has been so helpful to help us think about what opportunities exist, how to professionalise our fundraising and how to portray our work differently for donors. Thanks so much, Sarah.”

Sonya Ruparel, CEO, Women in Prison.

“Sarah’s friendly and knowledgeable approach has really helped me develop my skills as a trust fundraiser and build my confidence in tackling larger bids such as HLF. Having worked with her we now have a much clearer idea of our organisational aims and expectations for the future.”

Hannah Stockwell, Fundraising Manager, People’s Trust for Endangered Species.

“We started working with Sarah in 2020 to get her help to develop a focused fundraising strategy for the organisation. Through clear communication, insight, experience and a strong dose of reality, we now have a robust fundraising plan in place. We look forward to continuing to work with Sarah over the coming year.”

Jonathan Morton, CEO, the Royal Cornwall Museum.

“Thanks to Sarah’s support over the past year, our team now has the skills, confidence and systems in place to fundraise from grant-making trusts. Sarah has helped us write trust applications that are clear, concise and compelling. Her support has been very valuable.”

Jill Nelson, CEO of People’s Trust for Endangered Species.