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John Davies Fundraising Consultancy
Over 12 years experience of delivering significant success in fundraising for charities - with seven years consultancy and freelance work following on from full-time employment in the sector. Available for one-off project work, strategic consultancy alongside an existing fundraising operation, or freelance delivery and management of an entire capital or revenue campaign.
Most fundraising consultants work only as consultants, providing advice to other fundraisers. I enjoy fundraising, and still take on fundraising tasks rather than merely giving advice to others. As a result I've raised nearly £4 million for small and start up charities in the last four years.
An entrepreneurial freelance fundraiser, I usually work with no more than two or three charities at one time, which enables me to take a bespoke approach to each charity client's needs, to develop effective relationships, to really identify with the charity cause and to deliver significant revenue. In addition, I can manage short-term or one-off projects - strategy development, staff-mentoring, scoping and research, a specific fundraising initiative - for charities that lack the in-house expertise or resource.
Emmaus Glasgow 2001-2006
Sole Fundraiser. Design and delivery of successful Capital Fundraising Strategy for new housing and training charity. Exceeded original Revenue Target by 100%
Initial target £1.2million in three years
Money raised Over £2.5 million in 30 months
• More than £300,000 from Charitable Trusts
• Over £200,000 from a Corporate Membership scheme (including Deloittes, Thus PLC, Scottish Equity Partners, McAlpine etc.)
• Over £50,000 from Community Fundraising
• Secured £90,000 from the Scottish Executive, £350,000 from the Community Fund (largest grant awarded in Scotland in 2003) £780,000 from the European Regional Development Fund, and £693,00 from Glasgow City Council.
• Secured 2006-2008 revenue fundraising of £135k from Scottish Executive, and Futurebuilders Scotland Investment Fund grant of £147,700 to develop the charity's recycling business
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Beanfeast Charity for Children 2001-2003
Conceived and managed a series of fundraising events
Initial target One-off £100,000
Money raised £250,000
• Recruited Ally McCoist, Robert Carlyle, Wendy Alexander, Rob Wainwright, Lesley Riddoch and Andy Nicol as patrons.
• Organised Golf Days at Gleddoch and Gleneagles, a black-tie Ceilidh in Edinburgh, and two Sportsman's Dinners at the Glasgow Hilton.
• Recruited and managed a volunteer committee of West of Scotland business people new to charity involvement.
• Secured feature coverage in The Herald, Scotsman, Sunday Herald, and Scotland on Sunday,
• Exceeded target with every event undertaken.
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Lochwinnoch Community Playgroup 2000
Secured the future of Lochwinnoch Community Playgroup through a single mail out to Charitable Trusts in 2000
Initial target £1,500
Money raised Over £13,000
Project assessment, proposal composition, and prospect research (identifying 110 Trusts and Foundations, 12 of whom supported the project) was completed in under two days of pro bono fundraising work.
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Youth Clubs UK 1998-2002
Retained to develop and deliver low-cost, sustainable fundraising programmes.
Set up telephone fundraising, regular giving, direct mail, collection box, team challenge, can recycling and internet auction initiatives.
Established co-operative partnerships with Unicef, Tidy Britain Group and Outward Bound as well as profitable commercial relationships with Accenture, Alcan, ANC Car Rental, Barclays, BT, BSkyB, and Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
Ran Beverley's Appeal (90th anniversary)
• Secured celebrity endorsement: Steve Redgrave, Boy George, Guy Ritchie, Les Ferdinand, Ainsley Harriott, Lloyd Grossman
• Wrote & produced supportive literature
• Organised events at Millennium Dome, House of Lords, St James's Palace, and Blackpool Pleasure Beach, raising over £150,000
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Other experience
I gained great experience working 'hands on' at the fundraising coal-face, developing and refining strategies, conceiving campaigns, recruiting and motivating teams and external agencies, managing expenditure and income budgets, negotiating trustee expectations and relationships with service delivery / campaigning sides of charities.
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National Fundraising Development Manager under Tony Elischer with Imperial Cancer (now Cancer Research UK)
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Head of Fundraising for Greenpeace off-shoot, the Environmental Investigation Agency
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First ever Director of Fundraising for youth development charity and expedition organiser Raleigh International
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Lodging House Mission 2005-2006
Target £120,000
Achieved £375,000
Took on responsibility for securing additional funding for small Glasgow charity working with homeless addicts and alcoholics in January 2005. Strategy developed by February and delivered over next 12 months.
•Secured in kind donations of design & print for new Corporate Identity and publicity materials
•Secured Big Lottery Fund award of over £200k
•Negotiated ESF grant of £105k
•Enhanced existing event fundraising by 100%
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