Achieve Consultants – The Charity Experts

Passion, Enthusiasm and No-Nonsense Expertise

As voluntary sector fundraising & management consultants and trainers, we offer an extensive range of services to charities and other not-for-profit organisations, from strategic and business planning to fundraising advice, support, training and development. We also provide interim management services. We are passionate about turning potential into reality and changing the world (or a small part of it) for the better.

Achieve Fundraising Consultants

Whether you need hands-on fundraising services, expert advice, help with your fundraising strategy, an interim fundraising professional, training and development of individuals or your team trust Achieve Consultants with our huge depth and breadth of knowledge and experience to help you with intelligent and creative solutions to ensure you achieve your goals and dreams.

Over 30 Years Experience

Over the years we’ve worked with a wide range of causes and charities of every shape and size across the UK, in Europe and beyond

Flexible, Personal And Adaptive

We don’t have a ‘one size fits all’ approach – with our bespoke approch we enable charities to make the most of having external support in a way that works for each individual client

Passion And Enthusiasm

Clients always comment on our passion, enthusiasm and commitment and are delighted that we ‘go the extra mile’ for them

Proven Track Record

We’ve successfully raised millions of pounds from the sources out there via all the various methods and techniques and assisted organisations and individuals to achieve their potential

Satisfied Clients

Our clients come back to us time and again whilst also recommending us to others - sound evidence of our success.

No-Nonsense Expertise

We’re straight talking and help you to appreciate fully the issues whilst enabling you to understand the reasons for our recommendations and actions.

Whatever the size of your charity we'd love to hear from you .

Established, with Repeat Clients

Achieve Consultants Ltd is a small, highly successful consultancy dedicated to offering personalised bespoke high quality fundraising services, interim management, training and recruitment as well as strategic advice and guidance.

Clients regularly use us and recommend us to others for assistance such as developing effective and robust fundraising and income generation strategies, case for support development, feasibility studies and capital appeals, successfully bidding for large grants and tenders, recruitment, training and development of individuals and whole teams.

The world of fundraising can seem a bit overwhelming. Gill was great at explaining how to make things manageable and create strategies that work for your particular charity

Your enthusiasm for a project will really stick with me.

It was a great privilege to work with you and indeed great fun too!

It has been a real pleasure working with you over the last year. I have learnt so much from you and have enjoyed your positivity and creativity tremendously.

It was great to have you on board with us to help us move forward with some key developments – your input was invaluable and you really ‘get us’ and understand the dynamics.

We’ve worked in the field, delivered academic-style as well as practical skills-based training and provided creative leadership to a wide range of organisations, from traditional care charities to education, animal welfare, cultural & arts, heritage, environmental & conservation. We support all types of non-profit organisations and charities.

Clients come to us with all kinds of challenges. These range from formulating fundraising strategies and marketing new campaigns to staff development and the need for interim support. We enable our clients to grow their organisations and develop sustainable funding streams via statutory bodies, charitable trusts & foundations, national lottery funds, corporate support, individual giving, major donors, celebration and in-memory giving, and legacies, community fundraising, events, social enterprise and other appropriate sources.

Sustainable Funding Streams

Fitting The Pieces Together

PROFESSIONALISM

We follow best practice in fundraising, management and consultancy and adhere to the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Fundraising Practice, which outlines the standards expected of all charitable fundraising operations or activities in the UK.

CHARTERED Institute of fundraising

We are proud to be a member of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising ( CIOF ). Gill Jolly, Achieve’s Director, is a Fellow of the Institute and holds the CIOF’s Diploma in Fundraising. She is also an approved Institute trainer, developing and delivering virtual and face-to-face training courses with the CIOF Academy. In addition, Gill is a regular speaker, facilitator and chair at CIOF conferences and events, as well as part of various national and regional committees including Chair of CIOF East Anglia.

Directory of social change

Gill is an approved freelance trainer with the , running a number their courses. Gill is an approved trainer with the Directory of Social Change and, on a freelance basis, develops and runs a number of public and in-house training courses for them as well as speaking at their conferences.

Some Recent News And Thoughts

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Forthcoming public training Gill Jolly is delivering

As a trainer with the Chartered Institute of Fundraising Academy Gill delivers a range of virtual training courses. Topics she

12/07/2022

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Fundraising involves effective communications

Words and language need to be carefully selected in our messages whether they are to be communicated verbally or in

02/07/2020

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What The Current Environment Shows Us About Donor Motivations

Gill Jolly, from the CIOF Health Special Interest Group, says that there are lessons to be learnt from Captain Tom’s

31/05/2020

We Help You Grow

We enable our clients to grow their organisations and develop sustainable funding streams, via statutory bodies, charitable trusts & foundations, national lottery funds, corporate support, individual giving, community fundraising, events, social enterprise and other appropriate sources.

A large proportion of our work comes to us either by recommendation or as repeat business from satisfied clients, who choose to use us again – sound evidence of our success.

Achieve’s Director, Gill Jolly is a Fellow and full member of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising (CIOF) and an approved trainer with the CIOF Academy and the Directory of Social Change (DSC).

We’d love to hear from you, why not pop us a quick message or email.