Testimonials
Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Birmingham Children’s Hospital sought help in the preparation and planning of a major capital campaign for a new Burn Centre. FR&C worked with the hospital to audit all existing and previous fundraising activity and assessed the feasibility of fundraising at the hospital both in the short and long term. We assisted in the recruitment and training of staff and restructuring the fundraising department.
Supported by our high quality prospect research and strategic planning input Birmingham Children’s Hospital has secured most of the funds required for the new Burn Centre and through an ongoing relationship with FR&C is planning the next phase of its fundraising development.
Christie’s
http://www.christie.nhs.uk/about/appeal.aspx
I just wanted to drop you all a quick line to say how pleased I am with this research. The information is great and I take my hat off to you all for how quickly you’ve pulled it together. The work that you’ve done will really help us to beef up our major donor activity and achieve some amazing things for cancer patients in the North West – and through our increased research capacity, cancer patients around the world.
Source: Alison Staples, Development Manager
RSPCA
FR&C is a vital partner in our major gift programme in delivering unique research, help with writing our fundraising cases for support, strategic planning and individual approach plans. Our team really values their practical expertise and focus on what is needed internally and externally to accomplish financial success combined by their ability to see the opportunity rather than the problem!
Source: Louise Shara Mattock, Major Donor Manager, RSPCA
St. Mary’s Hospice
Members have resolved that I should write to you to convey our appreciation of all the work that you have undertaken in connection with the appeal. We appreciate the professionalism with which you prepared and presented your guidance for the Council of Management, undertook the feasibility study and helped recruit the Chairman and Members of the Appeal Committee. The Appeal Committee have been grateful for your advice and for your insistence on a disciplined approach. Thank you for all your support
Source: Marian Reed, Chairman of the Council of Management, St Mary's Hospice, Birmingham
Salvation Army
http://www1.salvationarmy.org.uk
I just wanted to say a big ‘thank you’ from Julius and myself for all the effort that has gone into researching prospects for our major gifts feasibility study. We are very excited about the results, and appreciate the huge amount of work that has gone into gathering all the information for the report. Many thanks.
Source: Major Pam Knuckey, Resources and Operations Officer, Marketing and Fundraising Department
Holton Lee
I do want to thank you, on my behalf and of course on behalf of Holton Lee, for the marvellous work you have put in with us. In your care and interest, your training, and in letting us have the benefit of your experience, we realise we couldn’t have done with out you. Your expert knowledge has been a very confirming thing to us.
Source: Sir Thomas Lees, Holton Lee
African Enterprise
Thanking you profoundly and with all our hearts for the amazing contribution you brought into AE International/Pan African with the four day seminar here at the South African centre. Your professionalism, wide and long experience, your plain expertise, your humour, your illustrative gifts and story telling and so forth all worked their way most wonderfully into our minds and hearts and our resolutions. And I know I speak for all my colleagues when I express how deeply grateful we all are and will always be. What you did with us was ground-breaking, paradigm-shifting, and indeed mind-bending and I believe that if we can implement that which you have taught us we should see a substantial rise in our income in the coming years on the basis of deepened expertise, new professionalism and fresh understandings.
Source: Michael Cassidy, Founder, African Enterprise
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
FR&C’s input, writing a fundraising case for support, conducting high quality prospect research, leadership recruitment and strategic planning for the Belgrade Theatre’s campaign to raise £1 million, lead to a highly successful campaign which exceeded its target.
Referee: David Burbidge
New Marlowe Theatre
http://www.marlowetheatre.com/
Our work with Canterbury City Council’s New Marlowe Theatre project team has objectively assessed the readiness of the team to launch a major capital campaign, evaluated the willingness of the constituencies to provide financial support, identified and recruited campaign leadership.
Referee: Janice McGuiness, Head of Heritage and Arts, New Marlowe Theatre