advice2Go

ABOUT US advice2Go was founded in 1996 by Isabel White as a generalist consultancy, providing a range of bespoke services for clients in the non profit and public sectors, in the UK and throughout Europe. We work with a close team of four associates and a wider group of advisors who are able to apply the appropriate resources to meet each client brief. Our team has experience in every discipline of public life from the Arts to Waste Management. Having specialised in interdisciplinary, cross sector partnerships for the last ten years, we have been expanding our portfolio to include more training, research and policy development work alongside our direct, hands-on role for clients.In 2009, we launched our sister organisation the influential list(www.theinfluentiallist.com) which tracks influential individuals and organisations, monitors policy and good practice developments and works with academic partners on developing training programmes at an international level. Here is more information about our team: Isabel White MInstF, Director and lead consultant on most assignments An NCVO Approved Consultant, Isabel founded her own fundraising consultancy business in 1996, after 26 years in the private and voluntary sectors. She manages a large network of associate fundraisers and social entrepreneurs, with a huge breadth of collective experience, working in the public, private and voluntary sectors. She has worked with over 130 clients, on over 150 assignments and in that time has helped them to raise over £19m. Her own experience covers the arts, community safety, (dis)ability, education, enterprise, the environment, health, heritage, housing, leisure, museums and libraries, recycling and green energy, regeneration, rights and justice, social welfare and waste management projects and organisations, throughout the UK. She has also worked in Spain, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany. Isabel has served on the boards of a number of educational and not for profit organisations and has chaired a small grant giving charity. Isabel has worked with young and old people, gay and lesbian people, people with disabilities and special needs, from minority communities, women’s groups and marginalized communities. She is a regular speaker at voluntary sector conferences, and workshops, runs training programmes (including an international masters programme in fundraising) in the voluntary, community and public sectors, and has written features and articles for a variety of third and public sector publications over the past fifteen years. Andrew Borge FRSA MInstF – High Net Worth Donor specialist Andrew Borge started his own business 10 years ago, having spent 18 years in banking before moving to the voluntary sector, with The Prince’s Trust, and four years running a very successful charity and sponsorship programme for the Dr. Martens footwear company. Over the last 10 years he has worked on a number of projects including: Running the £9.4 million Armed Forces Memorial Appeal Working with the owner of “Havengore”, the vessel that carried Sir Winston Churchill’s coffin on the River Thames in January 1966 Raising funds to allow “Liberty Belle”, a B-17 Flying Fortress, to make the journey from the USA to the UK Working with a team to create the £5 million strategy for the Victory Services Club Helping to raise funds for the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library, Fulton, Missouri, USA Creating a £1.2 million strategy for a new “Railways at War” museum for the Swanage Railway Company (he was also instrumental in the repatriation from the USA of the Pullman luggage van that carried Sir Winston Churchill’s coffin) The public phase of the £6 million campaign to create the world’s first major museum dedicated to Sir Winston Churchill in the Cabinet War Rooms He is currently the Campaign Director for the £6 million Police Treatment Centres campaign. He is also a Trustee and Treasurer of the Cornelia de Lang Syndrome Foundation. Deborah Dow MInstF – High Net Worth & Community Giving specialist A specialist in individual giving, both at community and high net worth levels (including many six and seven figure gifts), Deborah has run her own consultancy business for the last four years following seventeen years in the voluntary sector.Her specialisms include corporate and individual fundraising, senior strategic fundraising and marketing for clients in the housing sector, NHS Trusts (John Radcliffe and Worthing hospital trusts), the hospice movement, neurological services and children’s charities. She has been Director of Fundraising for Sue Ryder Care and also managed public relations and corporate events programmes for a number of clients.Her previous private sector experience translated to development of new funding products and partnership work with local authorities, commercial and benevolent organisations. Her community fundraising experience includes planned/tax effective giving programmes, direct mail, lottery and annual house to house collections and legacies. She can also advise on back of house support and admin, including database procurement, installation and management. Claire Wilson, MInstF - Corporate specialist Claire began her career in PR and Marketing after graduating from Sheffield University with a BA Hons in English. She ran business to business accounts for clients including BT, Unilever and Elida Gibbs, first at Shandwick and later at the Quentin Bell Organisation. Following this she was New Business Director at Band and Brown Communications where she further developed her business network. Claire’s move to the charity sector was to establish and lead the Corporate Team at The Prince’s Trust where she was successful in attracting major corporate partnerships including Tango, and a £1m sponsorship from Mercury Communications. She ran the corporate team for eight years and was instrumental in raising over £10 million, leaving there to head up the Corporate Unit at leading fundraising network Charity Consultants. Current and recent clients of the Corporate Unit include The King’s Fund, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, ZSL ( London Zoo), Scope, Age Concern, Help the Aged, The Climate Change Group, Forum for the Future, National Star College, South West Children’s Hospice and Railway Children. Claire also runs her own agency. Cooper Wilson advises business clients on working with the not-for-profit sector in the UK and Eastern Europe. Internationally she has been a consultant with Partners in Hope for the past eight years working with businesses and NGOs in Russia. A major corporate appeal has raised over $1m from key partners including Clifford Chance, Linklaters, PwC, Ernst &Young. She also works for F.R.O.D.O (Foundation for Relief of Disabled Orphans) in Eastern Europe, recently launching an international campaign.UK charity clients include Shaw Trust and Connect. Claire specialises in advising companies on their CSR strategies, recent corporate clients include Vertu (Nokia) and Renaissance Group advising on their global CSR strategies. Claire has been working in the charity sector for the past 20 years. She has served on the boards of the Central Housing Trust and the Institute of Fundraising, where she was also Chair of the Training Board. Dougal Squires, MInstF – lead researcher and grant writer Dougal has been working as an independent charity researcher and fundraiser since 2005, much of that time as in-house researcher for advice2Go. His work has involved research, case writing and applications to charitable trusts and foundations, statutory funders and the lottery. Research has remained his primary focus, and projects have included researching funders and project partners, assessing avenues and techniques for fundraising, and profiling individuals. Dougal studied at three universities (Strathclyde, Lund, and Glasgow). His undergraduate degree was in Politics, and post-graduate degree was in International Politics. This second degree was undertaken in an international environment, with only a minority of the course members coming from the UK. He wrote his Masters dissertation on judicial responses to the trafficking of women. Dougal has carried out research for the Monte San Martino Trust, based in Italy and the UK. He has also worked for READ International, an education and community provider, relying on UK University volunteers to deliver projects in Africa.