Income Generation & Charity Fundraising

Income generation, charity fundraising, enterprise, funding, income

We offer extensive experience helping social sector organisations with income generation and charity fundraising. This can mean growing trading income with a new enterprise, securing contracts or grants, or developing a fundraising strategy.

Our consultants bring a very broad range of skills and have helped organisations secure over £154 million in funding for social purposes. And in a post-COVID world, diversity in your income generation and charity fundraising is more important than ever.

How can we help?

  • Trust and foundation strategy
  • Developing fundraising propositions
  • Income generation review
  • Business model review
  • Business plans for trading
  • Advice on how to price services and understand your cost-base
  • Bid writing and bid management
  • Partnerships and consortia to develop joint bids
  • Recruitment of fundraising or business development managers (interim or permanent)
  • Recruitment of trustees with fundraising, business development or financial management expertise

How have we helped with income generation and charity fundraising?

Read about successful projects we have been involved with:

Disability charity, income generation, charity fundraising, contract bidding With our support, Royal Association for Deaf people (RAD) won a £234k HMRC contract to make services more accessible
Leisure trust, income generation, charity fundraising, contract bidding We supported Suffolk-based leisure trust Abbeycroft Leisure to diversify and grow new services worth £3.5m by working collaboratively with an academy school in Cambridgeshire
Leisure trust, contract bidding With our consultants, Active Luton developed a new Luton Integrated Wellbeing Service, improving physical and mental wellbeing in the city and raising £1.3m a year
Social enterprise, health, contract bidding We helped GP co-operative FCMS to develop a model to run NHS 111 helpline services across Lancashire and Cumbria, in partnership with the North West Ambulance Service, worth £2.3m

How can we help you?

Please contact us on 020 7250 8334 or at dawn@ep-uk.org if you would like to arrange a discussion about your options.

Abbeycroft Leisure“The support secured through the Big Potential programme and provided by Eastside Primetimers has been invaluable. It has enabled Abbeycroft Leisure to respond quickly to opportunities by building a number of models that enable a better response to contracts. This has included financial modelling, contract documents, mobilisation and project management documents. Eastside Primetimers are also helping the Board and Senior Leadership Team with future options for growth and refining the approaches to this next stage of development” Warren Smyth, Chief Executive
Active Luton“We are very grateful for the support provided by the Eastside Primetimers team – it is impossible to overstate how much the support has meant to us and how integral to our success it has been.  Being able to call upon such a supportive, knowledgeable, inspirational and patient group of people has been invaluable as our trust seeks to begin engaging with the public health agenda” Helen Barnett, Chief Executive
Life Story Network“I want to say a big thank you to Eastside Primetimers consultant Lisa Lucas. She was really good at keeping us on track focused and organised. She also was really flexible and supportive with our needs.  Her approach was fantastic coupled with her patience and knowledge.  She was a really calming and clarifying force through times of change” Tom Hughes, Business Development Manager
North Norfolk Community Transport“Working with Eastside Primetimers was instrumental to NNCT having a strong period of growth. The diagnostic their team performed helped us reflect on our needs and identify areas where we needed support, including governance  and sustainability. We have doubled in size, with more income from sustainable, longer-term contracts rather than grants. Their variety of consultants with different backgrounds, skills and ideas gave us access to their experience and to personal support on a peer basis” Matt Townsend, Former chief executive
Victim Support“Eastside Primetimers has supported Victim Support with a number of projects. For example, their consultant Rosie Chadwick provided support with some complex technical elements as part of a successful tender. Rosie made a vital contribution and we found her to be flexible, generous with her time and a brilliant support” Simon Ketteridge, Business Development Director

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