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Catherine is a
Midas partner and has been fundraising for 9 years. She is
an expert in networking, raising money for special projects
and running capital appeals. She has raised millions of
pounds for social welfare projects and regularly devises and
runs networking opportunities such as receptions and
dinners. She
is energetic and passionate about her appeals.
She is a trust and major donor fundraiser who also raises
money from the Big Lottery and Landfill Tax sources.
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She is an experienced and driven networker who always reaches
her targets and is determined to succeed on behalf of her
clients.
Her current and recent clients include:
Mount Vernon Cancer
Treatment and Research Appeal, Reach Out Projects (Canal Boat
Experiences for people with special needs), Noah's Ark
Children's Hospice, Pasque Hospice and Chellington Residential
Centre (a residential centre for young people).
‘I decided to
work with Midas for a capital campaign to build a new
chemotherapy research unit as they offered an ideal combination
of extensive local knowledge in Hertfordshire, with an
affordable pricing structure. The decision definitely paid off
when we received news of a grant for over £400,000 from a
trust initiated through Catherine Farrell's networking skills
and contacts.’
Daniel Fletcher, Head of Fundraising Development, Enhance Herts.
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Lesley is a
Midas partner and has been fundraising for 13 years. She is
an expert in major donor work, networking, fundraising from
trusts and events. She is a lateral thinker, very strategic
and is very clear thinking and speaking. She has raised
millions of pounds mainly project and revenue monies – for
her arts, social welfare, health and human rights clients –
and regularly contributes to the strategic development of
organisations through driving forward healthy fundraising. |
She is energetic, enthusiastic and focussed, will challenge you
and your charity and help you to get things done. She will also
give you the confidence that you can achieve your desired
objectives.
Lesley is a
hands-on fundraiser as well as a strategist and has invaluable
experience in major donor fundraising as well as in successfully
approaching charitable trusts and foundations. She
particularly enjoys raising core funding for charities and over
the last five years has had some considerable success in raising
multi year funding for the salaries of chief executives.
She has sat on
the Board of Wysing Arts Centre, a visual arts centre in
Cambridgeshire, for 7 years, chairing the charity from 2003-2006
and has a keen interest in the recruitment and maintenance of
strong and effective trustee boards.
‘Lesley became involved with Breakthrough at a crucial moment in
the early development of a £12m fundraising appeal.
I was seeking support around structuring the
appeal and recruiting a high profile Chairman and
fundraising board.
The refreshing thing about working with Lesley was that a good
deal of our time was spent practically moving real-world
opportunities forward rather than getting hung-up on models and
theories. In my opinion, Midas provides a very reasonably priced
service and Lesley is always determined to give the charity as
much value-for-money out of each session as possible.’
Alastair Graham, Head of Trust & Major Donor Fundraising,
Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
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Fabienne is a Midas partner who
focuses on
statutory funding for UK and international projects. She had
a career in sales before becoming a freelance fundraising
consultant in 1994 and has worked as a fundraiser for a
range of environmental, health and overseas NGOs since then.
Fabienne’s main area of expertise is statutory funding –
namely grants and tenders from the UK central and local
government, the European Commission and occasionally other
European governments as well as lottery and Comic Relief. |
In addition she has a wide-ranging knowledge of UK grant-making
trusts and European foundations with an interest in
international development, disability and the environment.
Fabienne will bring to your applications and tenders great
attention to detail, insight into the way statutory and
non-statutory donors think and advanced writing and editing
skills. Fabienne also
specialises
in developing fundraising strategies, in project planning and in
delivering training courses. She is an active trustee of the
Campaign for National Parks, which works to protect and promote
the national parks of England and Wales.
Recent and current clients include: the Refugee Council, Leonard
Cheshire Disability, Action on Disability and Development, the
Ethical Trading Initiative, Progressio, Kith and Kids,
Home-Start Richmond and Remember a Charity.
‘We continue to be thoroughly impressed with the inventiveness
and quality of Fabienne’s work and are delighted with the
fantastic results she has achieved on behalf of Kith & Kids. In
an increasingly competitive funding climate, Fabienne’s
expertise has been vital to help our strategic development and
the diversification of our income streams, creating a more
secure base for Kith & Kids’ future.’
Marjolein de
Vries, Director of Kith and Kids.
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Martin is a Midas partner and has worked with Midas
in various capacities since 1995. He specialises in
fundraising appeals and has a particular interest in
raising money from the corporate sector, events, and
the Internet. He has been a fundraising and
management consultant for over fifteen years, and has
raised significant sums of money from sources such
as the European Commission, the corporate sector and
the Lottery. He has held a number of senior posts in
the not for profit sector and local authorities,
including General Manager of the Variety Club of
Great Britain and Chief Executive of a national
voluntary youth organisation for seven years.
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Prior to his consultancy, Martin was a professional
youth and community worker for over 25 years. He is now the
Chair of Trustees of Haringey Shed - an inclusive theatre
company for children and young people. He has a particular
interest and considerable experience in working with faith
and interfaith groups to whom he has delivered training and
consultancy in recent years and continues to do so. He has
recently written a book on fundraising in the faith
community.
Recent and past clients include: Drama Workhouse,
Islamic Help,
Kith and Kids, Halal Food Authority, Kisharon, Nottingham University Hospital
Charity, Dorset Blind Association, the British Muslim
Forum and SPCK.
‘Martin Shaw was supporting Kisharon for 6 years.
At that time,he oversaw the appointment of our Head
of Fundraising and provided invaluable advice on the
formation of a strategic fundraising plan, which was
critical as our targets doubled within a 2-year
period. Martin’s management experience and
vast fundraising knowledge enable him to liaise
equally effectively with the Chairman of our
Fundraising Team and also with the team members
themselves, providing practical guidance which time
and again translated into increased income’.
David Goodman, C.E.O of
Kisharon.
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David joined
Midas in 1999, and specialises in capital appeals, trust
fundraising and BIG Lottery bids.
He worked in
the City of
London
before spending eight years in the Appeals Division of the
NSPCC. He joined the then Community Fund in 1995 as Senior
Grants Officer for the Eastern Region and was part of a team
that designed the assessment process. David handled the
distribution of over £100m and managed over 800 separate grants.
He is an experienced capital fundraiser and is often used by
charities to front building appeals. As well as a hands-on
fundraiser he is also a strategist and an experienced networker.
He is a friendly and relaxed team player who has raised millions
of pounds for his clients since he joined Midas.
David's recent and current clients include: Kidney Research UK,
The Tutu Foundation, Aspire, Allergy UK. The Suffolk Punch
Trust, The House of St Barnabas Soho, Porticus UK, and The St
Vincent de Paul Society.
‘David Hanley has been working with considerable success for us
for the last 6 years. One of the keys to this productive
relationship is that he cares about our work as much as we do.’
Graham Watson, Director/Bursar. The Seckford Foundation
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Nancy joined Midas in 2003 after working for 15 years as a
fundraiser on both capital and revenue appeals for charities
such as
Great
Ormond Street Hospital and Refuge. She has experience
of a variety of fundraising disciplines including corporate
sponsorship, events and community fundraising, but now
focuses mainly on major trusts and foundations, statutory
funding and the Big Lottery Fund. She is a highly effective
fundraiser specialising in raising multi year funding for
salaries and projects. Her writing skills and her
project development are excellent and she regularly exceeds
targets. |
She is at her
best working with unpopular causes such as domestic violence,
adoption and complementary health (she is a practising
aromatherapist), but she has also worked on large high profile
capital appeals such as the St Joseph's Hospice Centenary
Capital Appeal. Recent and current clients have included
Childlink Adoption Society, Bonny Downs Community Association
and the Complementary Health Trust.
"I know that
the results of your hard work have been very much appreciated by
all at Childlink. It has raised morale and enabled us to
look to the future with great confidence.... Selecting you
(Nancy O'Brien) and Midas in 2005 was one of the best decisions
we had made at Childlink for some time".
Caroline
Hesslegrave, CEO at Childlink Adoption Society
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Helen is a Midas colleague and has been fundraising for
14 years. She is an expert in trust, statutory and
Lottery fundraising. She is used to submitting large
grants, multi year bids and appeals to deliver services,
particularly for social justice causes. Previously she
worked for The Children’s Society and the Canon Collins
Educational Trust for Southern Africa. She is used to
working with and advising charity CEOs and trustees and
is strategic and perceptive. |
She has very strong written skills and has an impressive record
of raising significant sums of money from trust, Lottery and
statutory sources. She has an interest in overseas development,
particularly Southern Africa and would be interested to work for
grassroots causes as well as those raising funds for HIV/Aids,
health and women. Helen is based in the New Forest in Hampshire
and she is particularly keen to develop Midas’s work along the
south coast.
'I really appreciated Helen’s energy and enthusiasm whilst she
was working with The Children’s Society. Helen was successful
in raising large sums of money for a variety of different
projects. She took up, supported and proved the worth of a
completely new area of work for the charity for which she raised
hundreds of thousands of pounds in the space of a few months.
Helen is positive and practical, she can see the wood for the
trees, and is able to move projects forward.'
Dorothy Connell, Head of Strategic Funding,
The Children's Society.
Philip
joined Midas in 1998 having worked in the voluntary sector
for 25 years with Index on Censorship/Writers &
Scholars Educational Trust and OneWorld Online. He has
raised funds from trusts, companies, the European
Commission,
Scandinavia,
USA,
the National Lottery, fundraising events and by direct mail.
He specialises in lottery bids, approaching charitable
trusts and in drafting business plans. He has a real passion
for overseas and domestic causes supporting human rights,
refugees and asylum seekers.
Recent
clients include: Christian Action Housing (Enfield),
Detention Advice Service, Newham Bengali Community Trust,
Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund, Refugees Arrival
Project, Music in Detention, Media Diversity Institute and
The Forgiveness Project. He is particularly effective
raising core funding for small charities or unpopular causes
in which he believes.
As well as
having an interest in human rights, he is an arts and
culture enthusiast and is a trustee of the Stephen Spender
Memorial Trust and Modern Poetry in Translation – both are
about 20th & 21st Century literature.
He is an extremely effective bid writer and a deep thinker
and will add not just capacity but also intelligence to your
charity’s fundraising.
‘Philip assisted us to raise significant sums of money to
ensure the continuation of the Enfield Temporary
Accommodation Play project, health advice and play and
development opportunities to families who are homeless and
living in temporary accommodation. Philip has a
relaxed and participative style of working, taking time to
get to know the project or organisation he’s working with,
ensuring deadlines are met and targets achieved’.
Ian Martin,
Christian Action (Enfield)
Housing Association Ltd
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John is a Midas colleague who has worked in the
voluntary sector for over 20 years. He is a skilled
fundraiser who specialises in capital appeals, trusts
and foundation fundraising and major donor work. In
addition he has extensive experience in events
management and the development of corporate sponsorship
for charities.
Whilst he is happy to work with charities to deliver
hands on revenue fundraising and has done so very
successfully in the past, he has a significant and
impressive track record in raising money for new and
refurbished buildings and is used to chasing big
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Over recent years
he has worked for causes such as cancer, disability and arts
education. He is an excellent networker and has worked
with many charity patrons and influential supporters to achieve
his targets. His most recent role has been to develop the
strategy and deliver the fundraising for a Leonard Cheshire
Disability home in Bedfordshire. He sits on the board of
two charities: Theatre Is, a theatre group for young people in
East Anglia; and EASE Animal Charity of which he is Chairman.
Theatre is his passion and he has written two books on the
subject.
‘Over the
last two years, John has led the development of a capital appeal
for Leonard Cheshire Disability in Bedfordshire. Due to the
campaign’s tight timescale, he took a strategic decision to
mainly focus on large individual gifts and applications to
trusts and foundations, with a remarkable success rate, while
not ignoring community fundraising activities which helped boost
the charity’s profile in the community. John recruited and
worked with a highly motivated appeal board, sharing his vision
and enthusiasm with them until the appeal’s successful
conclusion. John has strong communications and interpersonal
skills, enabling him to positively interact with and influence
people at all levels.’
Francois Gallais, Regional Fundraising Manager for Leonard
Cheshire Disability.
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