For fundraisers

Strategy, coaching and hands-on support for fundraisers.

What we offer

Fundraising is meaningful work, but it can also be relentless.

Tight deadlines, competing priorities, emotional labour, and constant pressure to deliver can make even the strongest teams feel stretched.

We support fundraisers to plan clearly, work confidently, and sustain their impact, offering strategy, coaching, and hands-on help when it’s most needed. We bring specialist expertise in high value fundraising from Trusts and Foundations.

Whether you need space to think, extra capacity to deliver, or steady support through a busy period, we offer a helping hand and expert guidance.

  • Clear plans for confident fundraising

    We work with you to build fundraising approaches that help you make better use of limited capacity, and build confidence in your direction.

    This can include:

    • Theory of change development

    • Alignment between fundraising, delivery, and organisational strategy

    • Case for support and messaging development

    • Fundraising strategy development, based on analysis of current approach with major gifts

    • Pipeline and prospect review, helping to identify 10-15 high potential leads with bespoke cultivation plans

    • Review of stewardship and uplift journey for existing funding partners

    The result: a clearer direction, stronger decision-making, and fundraising targets that feel achievable.

  • Extra capacity when time is short

    When deadlines are tight or the stakes are high, we can step in to help deliver. This is practical, experienced support, acting as an extension of your team when you need it most.

    We can work on a project basis or provide flexible support on retainer during busy periods, staff transitions, or funding pushes.

    Hands-on support includes:

    • Application writing and editing

    • Prospect research and pipeline development

    • Monitoring, evaluation, and reporting

    • Interim fundraising leadership

  • Because fundraisers need support too

    Fundraising sits at the intersection of purpose and pressure. The emotional weight of the work, combined with targets and uncertainty, can easily lead to overwhelm or burnout.

    Coaching offers space to pause, reflect, and regain perspective, supporting you to work with greater confidence, focus, and balance.

    Coaching support can help with:

    • Navigating complexity, change, or growth

    • Building confidence and decision-making clarity

    • Managing workload, boundaries, and expectations

    • Sustaining motivation and wellbeing over the long term

    • Reflecting on leadership, values, and impact

    This is thoughtful, compassionate support designed to help you stay connected to why you do this work.

Our approach

Compassionate

We recognise the emotional labour behind the work.

Practical

We are focused on what’s achievable with the resources you have.

Collaborative

We work alongside you and the communities you support.

Values-led

We always centre fair, inclusive, and trust-based funding practice.

  • Sophie transformed our approach to trust fundraising and more than doubled our income in 12 months. She is thoughtful, highly strategic and has a sophisticated knowledge of the trust funder landscape. She developed complex cases for support and compelling proposals that helped us win big. I learnt so much from working with Sophie.

    Sofia Haque, Director of Income Generation, Stonewall

  • "In our convoluted funding world, Sophie's integrity, well-thought through approach and care are remarkable. Her expertise in trust fundraising is unmatched."

    Anna-Leah Gebuhr, Philanthropy Advisor, UN Refugee Aid

  • Alongside extensive fundraising expertise, Sophie brings collaborative and calm energy to meet tight deadlines and heavy workloads. We won the funding and it was fun and productive working with Sophie, so I would highly recommend her!

    Klara Wertheim, ReportOUT Trustee

  • "Sophie is the best fundraiser I've known! She is such a natural. I'm so glad she is using her powers for good in her own venture."

    Lucy Lord, CEO, Red Rose Foundation

  • "I loved working with Sophie. She is incredibly empathetic, diligent, warm and focused. Her skillset is broad, she's just as skilled with fine tuning an application as she is strategising for your long-term success."

    Nic Bullen, Philanthropy Manager, RNIB

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