Charity Consultancy

Helping you Deliver More Impact with Less Striving!

Working in the Third Sector, you will know that making a positive difference doesn’t come without its challenges. If you’re a charity senior manager, then our team of experts can help you.

At Heart-Centred Leaders, our consultancy support is a flexible response to your changing needs. Our main areas of focus are around leadership, organisational development, co-creation, wellbeing, culture and fundraising. Either you tell us your priorities or we can help you identify what they are. And then we create a plan together which most effectively supports you and delivers on your desired outcomes,

We have a knack of getting to the heart of the problem quickly, helping you identify undiscovered strengths and opportunities to achieve your goals in a way which feels more manageable and fulfilling.

You don’t need to figure it all out alone!

We are here to help you.

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What will we help you with?

Often, during the years that I was CEO of Youth Concern, I would think “if only I could run this issue past someone who understands the challenge and could bring a different light to the problem…” or “who could help me achieve this more easily and effectively?”

You see, as leaders, you just can’t be an expert at everything and sometimes in a small or medium organisation you may not have colleagues whose experience you can tap into. This is where we can help you.

In hindsight, especially during my formative years as CEO, it often took me a long time to find the solution to my problem or to find a way of executing a task more effectively. Because a lot of the time I was trying to figure out all the answers by myself!

I’ll draw upon over three decades of charity expertise and tailor the consultancy support package to meet your unique challenges and opportunities.

I’ll work creatively and collaboratively with you, to find the best solutions for your organisation.

I can work with any member of staff or a combination of team members, depending on what’s needed. Usually, it’s the CEO, SLT, Head of Operations, HR or Fundraising Managers who are our main point of contact. However, I often involve other team members as appropriate.

I can also collaborate with my associates with particular areas of expertise when needed.

Feel overwhelmed with the 101 urgent objectives facing you
Want to manage your staff team more effectively
Feel the heavy weight of responsibility and expectations
Want to be more resourceful in finding the most effective solution to challenges
Desire to lead with a higher vision in mind
Know there are areas of your practice you’d like to explore and develop with an experienced charity leader
Want to Improve team morale & cohesion leading to better retention, attendance, performance, reputation
Want to focus on the team’s improved wellbeing
Need to increase and diversify funding streams

You will be working on challenges

What My Clients Say

"Fran is an excellent strategic thinker, very proficient and articulate visionary and with her absolute passion for leadership and acute understanding of the charity sector, she has been instrumental in helping me identify some of my short comings and finding effective solutions to address them. She is wonderfully patient and a very encouraging leader. At times when I have felt stuck, Fran has provided thoughtful questioning, allowing me to look at situations differently, concentrate my focus and energy on things within my immediate circle of influence and helped me to set challenges, to bring out the best in my overall practices of developing and growing best practice in a small grassroots organisation. "

Tracey FordConsultancy Client, Chief Executive JAGS Foundation CIC