We can help with additional support
If you have been awarded a grant by the Women’s Fund for Scotland and would like to access some additional support via coaching, pro-bono management consultancy and more please get in touch with the Women’s Fund for Scotland Executive Director who will work with you to determine which group has the best chemistry and refer you onto them. Each organisation will have their own approach to matching once referred.
The Cranfield Trust has over 140 highly skilled commercial sector volunteers in Scotland available to provide free consultancy support on a friendly one-to-one basis. Many are alumni of leading business schools. We can offer you this service if your voluntary organisation is involved with poverty, disability or social exclusion.
How it works: Get in touch and tell us about the management issues you’re dealing with. Our Scotland Projects Manager will work with you to understand how we can help, will find the right consultant to meet your needs, and support you to get the best possible results. We could help you:
- develop your strategy and improve your planning
- strengthen your financial processes and reporting
- evaluate the performance of your trading activities and win contracts
- build and develop your board
Typically, you’ll get up to eight days of a volunteer’s time, mentoring and advising you over several weeks or months, however all projects are different and this is a bespoke service.
The Kilfinan Group is a group of senior business people who provide free and informal mentoring to charity chief executives.
The Group was founded by Nicholas Ferguson, Chairman of Savills, in 2003. It now has nine ‘Chapters’ and around 175 members. Six Chapters are based in London, two in Scotland and one in Northern Ireland.
The Kilfinan Group is dedicated to mentoring individuals not organisations and is committed to absolute confidentiality. Mentors attend occasional Chapter meetings to share their experiences and to keep abreast of developments in the voluntary sector, but these are never shared outside the Group.
Mentors, who volunteer their time, have extensive business experience and each brings a range of skills and interests.
The Group is deliberately informal; we avoid bureaucracy and each mentor/mentee relationship is different. Once matched, mentors and mentees are free to structure their relationship to fit their needs and styles however; we recommend that meetings take place 4-6 times per year.
Pilotlight helps ambitious charities and social enterprises thrive by harnessing the skills of business leaders.
Pilotlight offers free strategic planning support to charities and social enterprises tackling disadvantage in the UK.
Charities work with Pilotlight for a period of 10 to 12 months. They are assigned a team of four, carefully selected senior business leaders to serve as mentors and a Pilotlight Project Manager to facilitate monthly meetings, making the most of everyone’s time.
During the Pilotlight engagement the teams look at every aspect of the organisation and tailor the project to explore and realise its strategic needs, strengthening the leadership and making organisations more resilient.
Pilotlight supports charities and social enterprises with building measurement into the strategic planning process in order that they are focused on continually improving and developing their services and ultimately increasing their impact.
