Income Generation & Fundraising

We are thankful to EP for the support provided to the social enterprises in our accelerator programme. We received great feedback on the workshops led by EP consultants.

We achieved all the things we were hoping for from having the support of Eastside People. They took time to fully understand the brief, organised the process very efficiently, worked flexibly within our budget and helped us get to a place where we now have a clear plan for growing unrestricted income. The lead consultant Kevin Davey was a pleasure to work with; skilful, quick to grasp what we needed, full of inventive ideas, backed up by a wealth of practical business development experience directly relevant to our sector. As well has having a menu of options for new services we can offer, we are already seeing increased sales as a result of support to restructure internally, improve our pitching and sales documents, review our pricing and improve productivity through better use of volunteers.

Eastside People understands the space in which we work, our concerns and the relationships with the organisations we are connected to. They also have the experience needed to help clients meet the stringent good governance, due diligence and data requirements made by funding organisations such as CAF Venturesome.

The support that Eastside People provided first of all helped us to take time out to think about where we stood as an organisation and how we could move forward. It then led to us developing strategies and processes in a range of areas that will better position us to deliver new services and help us express our social value in our local community in Redbridge, in line with our values.

With our Eastside People HR advisor Roy Grant, we have worked to ensure that every person in the organisation understands their role in delivering the three-year strategy. All work plans and organisational strategies are now directly aligned to this strategy, enabling staff to be able to track and evidence their progress towards this.

From the initial consultation through to the confirmation of support, the process was made incredibly smooth by Eastside People. The professional approach enabled CCL to successfully apply for an Access Reach Grant, which in turn provided the charity with the services of Eastside People consultant Mike Taylor. Mike proved to be extremely knowledgeable regarding our sector which greatly assisted in formulating the bid to CAF Venturesome. Despite the constraints brought about by the uncertainty surrounding the easing of lockdown and the associated impact of COVID-19, Mike produced a thorough short-to-medium-term strategic business plan for the charity, covering the multiple strands of our business and ensuring that relative sensitivities were applied throughout. This huge, and ultimately successful, piece of work was formulated and presented in a relatively short time-frame. Chanctonbury Community Leisure would like to pass on our thanks to Mike Taylor and Eastside People for their professional and expert assistance as well as their continued enthusiasm and support to see the aims of the Charity harnessed and achieved.

I enjoyed working with EP and would definitely work with them again.

It was a great pleasure to work with Ann, our key priority was to work on our financial sustainability [for our Power to Change funding]. We know what we need to do. Thank you for all your support and connecting us with other persons.

We really enjoyed working with Kevin, he understood our requirements and completed the project very quickly and professionally, thank you!