Revenue
UCS Consultants has a wealth of experience helping small to medium size charities development sustainable revenue fundraising operations. We have expertise in all areas of fundraising and are skilled in supporting traditional charities as well as advocacy, social businesses, environmental and "difficult" causes.
See the following client spotlights for examples: The Irish Council for Civil Liberties, DVIRP, Leicester, Rotherham Hospice.
We design our work around you and your needs but amongst the services we offer are:
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Fundraising Health Check
This is a preliminary analyses of your fundraising operation giving an initial evaluation of issues, opportunities and threats and recommendations for action. Is the fundraising mix right? We benchmark performance and we look at enabling issues that may be hindering potential.
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Fundraising Strategy & Plan
UCS will create a detailed fundraising strategy and fundraising implementation plan. This will be the fundraising workbook which will plan every facet of the fundraising development campaign and look at all relevant factors from fundraising to governance, public relations, resources and communications. It will cover all areas of fundraising including big gifts, grants, community fundraising, trading and many more techniques and design a programme that will work.
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Research & Bid Writing
UCS is highly experienced in donor research and researching big gift and grants prospects and offers a comprehensive research and bid writing service.
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Fundraising Management
UCS can then either manage the fundraising campaign itself or support in-house management of the campaign. It has a full range of fundraising professionals including consultants, fundraisers, researchers and trainers. It is highly experienced in creating new in-house fundraising teams and mentoring them to independence if required. Some clients contract with UCS to manage their in-house fundraising team on a long term basis and others on a transitional or developmental basis.
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Specialist Management and/or Consultancy
Alternatively if the client has a partial skill base within its staff UCS can manage parts of the fundraising operation whilst training staff to a satisfactory level so that they can take over the role. Generally this focuses on the following:
- Major Gift Programmes
- Grants & Trusts
- Donor Recruitment, Retention & Development
- Membership Development
- Legacy Development
- Business Planning
- Trading
- Communications, Public Relations and Networking
If it's to do with fundraising ... we can help!
