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Eastside People

A community of experienced professionals from diverse industries and backgrounds focused on helping social sector leaders to build the capacity and impact of their organisations.

Eastside People

Charity mergers and partnerships and specialist services

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A grant-giving organisation providing funding and professional support to community charities, voluntary organisations and schools to help make a positive and sustainable impact.

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What can our community of experienced professionals help your social sector organisation to achieve?

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Our Consultants

Find out about our brilliant group of highly skilled and experienced individuals who are passionate about using their skills and knowledge to bring about social change.

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Interim Management – Source senior level talent on an interim basis

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Board Recruitment – Source top quality candidates for your Board

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Executive Search – Source senior level talent on a permanent basis

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We operate as a community of professionals with shared values and a shared ambition to help social sector leaders build the capacity and impact of their organisations.

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Our central office team are passionate about providing management, finance and back-office functions so that we can deliver an excellent service to clients.

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Why Eastside People?

Eastside People offers a comprehensive social investment and fundraising service. We support charities and social enterprises by unlocking grants and loans to help them grow, whether it’s money for a new site, refurbishing an existing building or growing an existing project or service.

Working closely with social investors, we are a support provider on the Reach Fund and have been one of the most successful investment readiness advisors in the social sector, with a high success rate leading to over £191 million in investments and contracts being secured for our clients.

What Can EP Help You With?

With a wealth of experience, we are here to guide you at every stage of the social investment process which includes:

Assessment of financing options
Supporting applications for investment readiness grants
Developing fundraising propositions
Business planning
Financial modelling
Outcomes modelling
Deal structuring
Pitch writing and preparation
Investor relations
Due diligence support

Our Results

We are proud of a high win rate for clients, due to our strong relationships with social investors and wide-ranging experience of how best to fund social change.

Eastside People have helped clients raise over 191 million and have supported 30 organisations to successfully apply to the Reach fund as a means of progressing their investment journey.

We are one of the most successful investment readiness advisors in the social sector, with a high success rate.

Jo Simpson, Senior Fund Development Manager

Social Investment Services

Working Together

Our approach is to match you with the right specialists from our community of professionals so that you can access the best minds from our social investment, finance and charity trading teams.

Please contact us if you are interested in having a discussion about how we could help you with social investment support.

Learn More About Social Investment

To understand more about the investment and funding journey, and the services we can offer, you can view our recent webinar held in conjunction with CAF Venturesome.

Social Investment Partnerships

We are listed partners with Good Finance and Acevo.

What Our Clients Say

We ask all our clients for feedback, find out what they have to say.

We are very grateful for the support provided by the Eastside Primetimers team during the process of putting together of our 5-year strategic plan. They were able to put together a diverse team enabling us to benefit from their wide knowledge and skill base.

Katy Ford, Chief Executive

Foundation East

We are very grateful for the support provided by the Eastside Primetimers team. It is impossible to overstate how much the support has meant to us and how integral to our success it has been. Being able to call upon such a supportive, knowledgeable, inspirational and patient group of people has been invaluable as our trust seeks to begin engaging with the public health agenda.

Helen Barnett, Chief Executive

Active Luton

I want to say a big thank you to Eastside Primetimers consultant Lisa Lucas. She was really good at keeping us on track focused and organised. She also was really flexible and supportive with our needs. Her approach was fantastic coupled with her patience and knowledge. She was a really calming and clarifying force through times of change.

Tom Hughes, Business Development Manager

Life Story Network

Eastside People helped us with an application to Homeless Link for social finance, which will be transformational for us and the young people we support. The support and expertise that Eastside People and their consultant Catherine Grayson have provided has been absolutely superb. I hope there will be further opportunities for us to work together.

Stuart Shore, CEO

Doncaster Housing for Young People

Action for Sick Children came to Venturesome at a crossroads, needing to change their business model and requiring an investment to do. Using the Reach Fund we were able to put the charity in touch with Eastside Primetimers to develop a robust plan for the future. Eastside Primetimers were able to respond quickly to the project and deploy consultants with appropriate skills to work closely with the charity. This resulted in a clear plan for the future without which we would not have been able to invest.

Lekan Ojumu, Investment Manager

CAF Venturesome

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