Charity fundraising consultants, Healthcare fundraising & Capital campaign fundraising
07460 806 980
linda@ellisfandd.co.uk
over £68 million
raised across the sectors
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what we do
Fundraising Strategy/Reviews/Audits, Major Gifts Fundraising, Capital Campaigns, Trusts & Foundations fundraising and Fundraising coaching.
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help with coaching your fundraisers
If you or your fundraising team would benefit from fundraising mentoring and coaching, then we are able to create something to suit your needs
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linda ellis
With nearly '30 years' experience of 'successful fundraising across a range of specialisms' including FR Strategy, Trusts & Fundraising, Corp partnerships.
WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT US
£29m raised
Huge investment in our future generations
Working with 16 charities, including Raleigh International, St Andrew’s University, numerous Independent Schools including Ripon Grammar School, St Peters School York. I also worked with Svitlo School which is a Ukrainian school for Ukrainian children in the UK. Raising some £28.8 million.
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£12.5m raised
Transform Your Charity with world class fundraising
I’ve worked with 12 charities, including organisations like Bliss,The Premature Baby Charity, World Cancer Research Fund, Royal National College for the Blind, Leicester Children’s Hospital raising £12.5 million. I’m currently working with The Children’s Surgery Foundation with a campaign to transform the experience of children and their families facing surgery across the UK.
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£9 million raised
St
George’s Crypt has been at the forefront of the provision of wide-ranging
support for homeless and disadvantaged people since it was established as a
charity in 1930.
Linda worked
alongside the Trustees and Development Company to help fund the development of
move on housing for those ready to make the move to independent living with
access to opportunities toward employability.
The ‘From A Bench to
Independence’ campaign raised over £5.4 million from Leeds City Council, the
Lockwood Family Foundation, Liz & Terry Bramall Charitable Foundation,
Evans Property Group, Garfield Weston Foundation, the Nisa Foundation,
Morrisons Foundation, the Laing Family Trusts and many others.
Veterans Aid, City Harvest and Women in Prison.
Raising a total of £9 million.
Other areas include:
>Religious/cultural : Manchester Cathedral and Carlisle Cathedral and I’m currently working with Mount Zion Apostolic Church in Nottingham on their capital campaign to rebuild their Art Deco Church £500k.
>Environment: Including
with International Protection for State of the Oceans (IPSO) and Garden Organic
raising over £250,000.
>Animal
welfare: £5 million for the Royal Veterinary College London.
‘As Campaign Chair of the Gift for
Life Campaign at Ladies College Guernsey in 2010, I relied on Linda’s expertise
as an experienced campaign manager. Linda worked with us to ensure
we were able to build momentum for our fundraising and to eventually surpass
our £1 million goal to fund a new sixth form centre. Linda was
capable and committed to helping us achieve our aims. I
wholeheartedly recommend her as an experienced and skilled
consultant.’
Dame Mary Perkins Co- founder & Director of
Specsavers
“Linda is at the top of the range when it comes to consultants.. She is a very wise and experienced consultant who was fundamental in helping us achieve our fundraising campaign target for our Science for the Planet Campaign and the major redevelopment of our refurbishment of our Education and Research centres. I would recommend her wholeheartedly.”
(Royal Veterinary College (RVC)
“I began working with Linda in 2015. We had called in a fundraising consultancy to help us raise £8.4m. Linda hit the ground running as our main point of contact. Highly professional and thoughtful,she was a pleasure to be with and we were successful. Common-sense is in short supply these days so people of Linda’s calibre are worth their weight in gold.” (Professor Hugh Milroy CEO - Veterans Aid)
(Professor Hugh Milroy CEO - Veterans
Aid)
what we do
A straight-talking fundraising consultancy delivering forward thinking strategy, and fundraising advice and support founded by Linda Ellis, a market leading consultant. Linda provides a combination of skills and a wealth of experience both in the charity and social enterprise sector.
Capital Campaigns
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Major Gifts Fundraising
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Fundraising Strategy
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Trusts & Foundations
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Fundraising Coaching
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Please fill out the form below to tell us more and we’ll be in touch to arrange a time to talk.
"Find out how we can help you achieve your fundraising goals" - Linda.
Capital Campaigns
If you’re considering a capital appeal to raise funds for new
buildings, a refurbishment, rebuilding or extension of existing facilities, a
significant expansion of services or an endowment, we can help you succeed.
Successful capital
campaigns will allow you to raise as much as possible, quickly, from fewest
prospects as possible.
Quite simply we show you how to raise a large sum of money in a short period of
time. We can inform your strategy and leave you to it; we can guide your
campaign from the sidelines; we can direct and mentor your own team; or can
fully manage your Capital Campaign. We’ve been involved in 25 successful
capital campaigns achieving targets of £250,000 to £100 million.
We do our homework to ensure we are
clear on your goals and your strengths then advise you, based upon our
experience, the best and most cost effective way forward for your organisation.
Talk to us to find out your organisation’s
capability.
We’ll guide through every stage of your capital
appeal, including:
- Pre appeal feasibility studies
- Creating and training fundraising boards and volunteers
- Developing the case for support and all supporting marketing materials
- Prospect research and approaches
- Applications to Trusts and Foundations
- Donor relationships management
- Financial budgeting and cashflow
- Donor visits and recognition
Major Gifts Fundraising
Long-lasting relationships with major donors, whether individuals,
Charitable Trusts or Foundations, can be transformational for your cause.
Years of successful experience in major gift
fundraising we can help you create your own dedicated group of key donors who
will support your charity in a meaningful way. Whether you want to set up new
programmes, upgrade your existing activities or enhance long-standing
programmes, we’ll help you create a practical and realistic major donor
strategy.
- Developing the cases for support
- Creating or reigniting giving circles
- Training development boards and leaders to ‘make the ask’
- Producing events such as briefings and donor visits
- Prospect research and development
- Trust and Foundation fundraising and bid writing
Fundraising Strategy/ Reviews & Audits
We help clients develop and achieve their ambitions
through fundraising and strategic advisory.
Fundraising Reviews/Audits: A fundraising review is an independent 360° view of
all your current fundraising activities and is vital to helping you determine
your goals and approach. This will:
- An understanding of your current fundraising position and your ambitions
- An in-depth evaluation of your fundraising systems, including resources, technology, and personnel
- Interviews with key stakeholders, including fundraising teams, trustees and volunteers.
Fundraising Strategy: If
you need to achieve growth in unrestricted income, raise funds for a project
or simply want to take your fundraising to the next level, we can help.
We will review your current fundraising plans and make practical
recommendations to enable you to raise more money. We will also work
closely with you to develop your case for support and clear tangible plans to
achieve what you need. This could involve developing a specific campaign or
introducing a new programme.
Our purpose driven
clients are usually looking for ways to grow or diversify their income. Past
funding may have been restricted to specific projects (sometimes developed
around funder requirements) or to direct programme activity without any
contribution to core costs.
In addition, funding may be short-term, or
one-off. This makes organisational growth and innovation difficult -
hindering ambition, impact, and confidence. Some clients are moving from
‘start-up’ to ‘grown-up’ mode and whilst they may have been very successful in
initial fundraising need support to embed, resource this critical area.
We work with clients to
help them develop a clear and compelling case for support and
a tried and tested multi-year fundraising strategy with a
pipeline of qualified prospects with a clear plan for engagement. This provides
the framework, funding opportunities, and vision needed to achieve multi-year
funding partnerships, unrestricted and sometimes larger gifts needed to fund
the organisation’s ambition. select the Text Element.
Trusts & Foundations fundraising
- We can review your current trust and foundation fundraising performance
- Customised research of philanthropic and statutory grant-makers
- Work on Lottery fundraising bids
- Prove Full management and delivery of trust fundraising
Fundraising coaching
If you or your fundraising team would benefit from fundraising mentoring and coaching, then we are able to create something to suit your needs. This could be:
- coaching your fundraising team/executive/trustees/volunteers etc to achieve goals/fundraising success
- Art of asking/how to close gifts etc coaching
- Regular confidential conversations to help you reach your full potential.
- In-depth training to help you build your career and manage relationships with Trustee Boards and Management Teams
- Further learning to reignite your fundraising knowledge and passion.
Diploma in Personal Development Coaching, from the Coaching Academy
Woodthorpe, Nottingham, NG5 4HQ
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