Clients

Over the years, we have secured millions of pounds for important causes, partnering with charities and not-for-profits to obtain essential funding for organisations of all sizes – national, regional, and local. Here are some examples of the causes, organisations, and sectors we’ve been involved with.

Our fundraising experience spans a wide range of areas including health and disability, advocacy, culture, arts, heritage, education, support for children and young people, and community initiatives.

The Prince of Wales Hospice

The Prince of Wales Hospice provides specialist care for people with life-limiting illness and their families in the Five Towns area of Wakefield District. Good Fundraising has worked with the hospice on several occasions, providing training for both the fundraising team and the wider staff team. We have provided training relating to Project Management, Managing Difficult Conversation and Chairing Meetings. It has been great to work with the passionate and dedicated teams at the Prince of Wales Hospice, providing advice and support that helps them deliver such vital services for the people of Wakefield. Read More

St George’s Community Centre

St. George’s is a community centre based in the heart of Lupset, a large estate of social housing in Wakefield, facing many challenges. The charity is a community anchor offering a welcoming space for all with meeting rooms, IT facilities, a coffee shop, and a community allotment. They also operate four childcare settings across Wakefield. For 27 years, the charity’s work has enhanced the life chances of so many living on the Lupset estate. The charity fosters the development of community spirit and improves personal and community health and wellbeing. Despite the high levels of deprivation, child poverty, low skills, and rising crime (including knife crime amongst children), all compounded by the cost-of-living crisis, the charity work in a relational way, seeing the potential in people and the community that surrounds them. Good Fundraising have secured income for St. Georges’ Youth Service programme, have completed a Reaching Communities application for core funding, a Lottery Awards for All application for their kitchen refurbishment and will be working with the team on other trust applications. Read More

National Coal Mining Museum England

Good Fundraising provides full fundraising services to the National Coal Mining Museum, acting as an external fundraising team. This means that, for the cost of employing a single fundraiser in-house, they have access to the wealth of skills and knowledge within the full Good Fundraising Team. We support the fabulous museum team with all of their fundraising activities including bid-writing, corporate fundraising and individual giving. We are developing their fundraising strategy, provide training for visitor facing teams and also provide advice and support on ethical decisions, policies and procedures. Read More

Leeds Museums and Galleries

Leeds Museums and Galleries manage nine heritage sites across Leeds including country houses, an industrial museum, art gallery and city museum. Good Fundraising undertook a major fundraising review for Leeds Museums and Galleries, considering the potential for fundraising across all its specific sites as well as within the context of a museum service as a whole. The review directly influenced the decision to establish a Development Trust that has since been established to raise much-needed funds for the sites. Read More

Humanitarian Aid Relief trust (HART)

Humanitarian Aid Relief trust (HART) is an international development charity that stands alongside local people who are caught in the crossfire of conflict, championing their solutions for sustainable change. Good Fundraising worked alongside the team at HART to develop a sustainable fundraising strategy and mentored the team to ensure that they had all the ingredients to ensure their fundraising success. Read More

Forward Trust

The Forward Trust are national leaders in the management of a range of drug and alcohol services in the unique prison environment. Their support includes providing advice, health and wellbeing, motivational work, clinical services and a wide range of group work programmes including family support. A national organisation with services located in almost all regions of England, Forward supports more than 20,000 clients a year offering 70 separate service delivery projects. Their new Head of Fundraising came to us for support with trust pipeline work at a time when they were recruiting to expand their team. Good Fundraising undertook research of their existing trust pipeline prospects across five different service areas, adding value to their inhouse work and identifying further prospects to approach. In a contract spanning 24 days over a few months, Good Fundraising prepared 42 applications which Forward Trust were able to submit, or we did on their behalf. Read More

Denby Grange

Denby Grange CAC is a local sports club based in Overton, Wakefield. Good Fundraising was approached to help secure the funding necessary to extend and refurbish the clubhouse and to make it more suitable for wider community use. We developed a plan based on applications to trusts and foundations and landfill tax funders and were delighted when all funds were successfully raised and the building opened in the summer of 2024. Read More

CTA

Community Transport Association (CTA), is a national membership body with members from across all four nations. Good Fundraising provide governance support and a clerking service ensuring the smooth operation of the Board of Trustees. We organise Trustee and Sub-committee meetings, help with Trustee recruitment and support the AGM. Strong governance is essential to the heath and development of any organisation and it has been wonderful to be part of CTA’s growth and development over the last few years. Read More

Autism Plus

Autism Plus adds value to lives through specialised care and support or adults and young people with autism, neurodiverse conditions, learning disabilities and mental health conditions. The charity runs social enterprises, supported living options, provides training services, employment support and work experience opportunities. Autism Plus empowers neurodiverse adults and young people with disabilities to lead independent lives with choice at the heart of everything they do. Offering adults and young people a choice in where to live, who to live with (or not), the chance to work or learn new skills, support to develop relationships and friendships, and live fulfilling and rewarding lives. Good Fundraising carried out a fundraising review and feasibility study for Autism Plus for the potential £5 million pound development work of their Park House Barns site. The study provided Autism Plus with a targeted look at the funding landscape, consulted with all stakeholders, provided a list of funding prospects, showed the gifting pyramid for different levels of investment and highlighted risks. Our work helped to shape board decisions. Read More

Armstrong Hall, Thornbury

The Armstrong Hall in Thornbury, is a much-loved venue for the performing arts and an important community space for the people of Thornbury that sadly closed during the pandemic and has not been able to re-open. Good Fundraising has previously undertaken an extensive fundraising review of the facility investigating the feasibility of a capital appeal for the site. Currently, Good Fundraising is working closely with a team of committed local volunteers, Thornbury Community Arts, to develop a realistic fundraising strategy and raise the funds required to refurbish and open the facility. Read More

The Theatre Factory

Theatre Factory is a production led creative company. They make stories in many forms: theatre (indoors and out), animation, digital and sound. Theatre Factory are community led, making stories in collaboration with children, young people, and adults, whose ideas are at the heart of everything they do. Theatre Factory share stories locally and regionally from their home in Barrow-in-Furness and help to nurture emerging local artists. They support children and young people to develop their creativity, grow talent and provide career pathways, as well as empowering future generations to play an active role in shaping the culture and heritage of the borough and beyond. Good Fundraising were employed to carry out a comprehensive bespoke fundraising review which took 6 months and involved in depth consultations with all stakeholders. Copies of the review were supplied for all board members and have helped shaped strategic decisions. Following on from our bespoke review work, Good Fundraising have completed many trust and foundations applications for Theatre Factory, securing core income for the charity and supporting them with their fundraising plans for their exciting IF! Festival. We have also worked with Theatre Factory helping them develop a Corporate Fundraising strategy. Read More

Green Estate CIC

The Green Estate Community Interest Company is a social enterprise which aims to grow engaging, adaptive and resilient urban places. It is a community and ecosystem of landscape designers, meadow makers, park and heritage stewards, green recyclers, venue organisers, volunteers and more who all care about social and environmental sustainability. The team have a very strong track record of generating income but wanted to come together to share experiences and to find a way forward for their future. Good Fundraising were delighted to facilitate a one-day workshop where senior staff members across the different areas of Green Estate’s work were able to work together and contribute to a SWOT analysis, PEST analysis and discussion about the fundraising landscape and to draw out the best return on investment of fundraising activities against their business income needs. Read More

It’s an absolute pleasure working with the team at Good Fundraising. They have a pragmatic, practical and strategic approach which is a breath of fresh air! In developing our Fundraising Strategy, they are transforming our approach to the future sustainability of the museum.
Lynn Dunning
CEO, National Coal Mining Museum for England
Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust have worked with Good Fundraising since 2017. With sound business planning and strategic direction, Good Fundraising has helped lay strong foundations to ensure the long-term sustainability and future growth of the Trust and has seen the funds raised for good causes increase from thousands to hundreds and thousands.
Paul Jagger
Chair, Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust
Catherine quickly stepped in when we were struggling with capacity on bid writing. She supported us to find new contacts and to write and send out lots of new applications. Her input was essential in keeping us on track during a challenging period of time. Thank you.
Poppy Purvis
Senior Grants Manager
The Management Committee of the Oulton Institute worked with Cath and successfully obtained grants from a number of different sources to supplement a major refurbishment project. Cath helped the Committee to complete the grant applications and also advised of other funding opportunities available. She was professional, thorough and knowledgeable, and helped understand the overall vision for the premises, building on her own experience as a Charity Trustee. We wouldn’t hesitate to recommend and work with Cath again in the future.
Ron Walker
Honorary Treasurer management Committee of the Oulton Institute
Good Fundraising have been an essential support to the CTA for many years. We are continually impressed by their exceptional level of professionalism.
Victoria Armstrong
CTA
I just wanted to say thank you for the workshop last Thursday. On discussion, we agreed we found it very useful to begin our journey into thinking of fundraising as a strategic activity. The prioritisation and next steps, along with the realism, was particularly helpful to us. Really useful insights and some good ideas to get us started also.
Kate Huges
Visitor Experience and Learning Manager, Green Estate CIC
Working with Good Fundraising has transformed our sense of the untapped potential we have to develop financial sustainability. They are approachable, knowledgeable and extremely hard working on our behalf
Rachel Ashton
Artistic Director Theatre Factory
Without Good Fundraising, Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust would struggle to raise funds and wouldn’t be good. The expertise, empathy, and skills that Good Fundraising bring to the table will always ensure that the table will never be bare and that indeed the table with sometimes groan under the weight of the funds raised through Good Fundraising’s efforts.
Ian McMillan
Poet and Trustee of Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust
In 2022, Good Fundraising Company worked closely with our whole team to review out fundraising potential as a museum service and at the individual site level. The process got colleagues involved in thinking this through, and the final report has provided us with a tremendously insightful and powerful case for change in how we approach fundraising. One major outcome has been the setting up of a development trust, part of the wider development trust, part of a wider development plan born out of the review. I highly recommend Cath and the team at Good Fundraising Company – they were a joy to work with.
David Hopes
Leeds Museums & Galleries
I can’t thank you enough for your support, encouragement, patience, wisdom and insight. We are already benefiting from your input, not just by your creative solutions, but by your use-able strategic approach.
Sam Mason
CEO, HART UK