Partners
GAS Studio
GAS Studio are communication designers helping non-profit community organisations articulate what they do and who they help. We design visual and verbal identities with communities to help build a...
Karen Eckstein Ltd.
Karen Eckstein Ltd advises professionals on how to manage risk in their own businesses, giving advice in a practical and pragmatic way. Karen has a national reputation with over...
ELE Global and Helen Squared
ELE Global, and sister organisation Helen Squared, work with organisations on their marketing and business development, helping them to make a commercial and professional difference, in a socially, environmentally,...
Amanda Wells Psychotraumatology
Amanda Wells is a specialist PTSD and Trauma psychotherapist in private practice and trainer within the health and social sector providing Mental Health First Aid training to businesses and...
Dot to Dot Training & Consultancy
Founded by Simon Pickering in 2015 Dot to Dot are specialists in the charity and social enterprise sector providing training, consultancy and coaching services to a broad client base....
Higson
Our purpose at Higson is to help teams and individuals achieve more. We help create engaged, inclusive and productive teams who communicate better. We help in a practical way...
Sonnet Advisory & Impact CIC
Sonnet Advisory & Impact CIC is a research and strategic consultancy providing impact research and measurement, impact-focused intervention design including systems thinking, social investment fundraising, and mergers, acquisitions and...
EQ Investors
EQ is an award-winning chartered financial planning firm with over 60 staff in London and 2,000 clients all around the UK. Their emphasis on doing things the right way...
Patrick Crawford CB
Having retired from Charity Bank after 5 1/2 years as CEO, Patrick Crawford CB is happy to assist social enterprises and charities where his experience and expertise could be...
RSA (Royal Society of Arts)
The RSA has been at the forefront of significant social impact for over 260 years. Our proven change process, rigorous research, innovative ideas platforms and diverse global community of...
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
PwC’s purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. Demonstrating genuine leadership is more important to them than size or short term revenue growth. To achieve...
Shaftesbury Partnership
The Shaftesbury Partnership creates, inspires and scales trailblazing social reforms that tackle inequality and exclusion.
Kingston Smith
As chartered accountants and business advisers, Kingston Smith works with entrepreneurial businesses to understand their potential and ambitions, and provide all the information and support they need to achieve...
Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF)
Paul Hamlyn Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK. Their mission is to help people overcome disadvantage and lack of opportunity, so that they...
Tudor Trust
The Tudor Trust is an independent grant-making trust which supports voluntary and community groups working in any part of the UK. They particularly like to help smaller, community-led organisations...
Bob Thust
With extensive experience and knowledge gained over a number of years in his career, Bob Thust has pledged to provide pro bono support with governance, strategy, and financial reporting (as a...
EQT Partners UK Advisors LLP
EQT invests in good companies across the world with a mission to help them develop into great and sustainable companies. EQT has several investment strategies – Equity, Mid Market,...
Timothy Barnes
Tim is a retired QC and is happy to assist with mentoring new businesses, particularly those where a knowledge of the law might be of assistance. He is also a trustee...
Claire Pattie
Claire is a qualified lawyer with a passion for social innovation and helping communities. She has run, advised on and volunteered for a number of pro bono and community...
Wavelength Companies Ltd
Wavelength is a world-class leadership company. They aim to make the world better through business, by enabling ambitious leaders to develop their connectivity, knowledge and resilience.
Big Issue Invest
Big Issue Invest is the social investment arm of the Big Issue. They help prevent poverty and create opportunity for communities by backing sustainable social enterprises, charities and ventures. They do this by...
The Co-operative Bank
The Co-operative Bank is offering a basic level of pro bono support through their telephone support direct channel as an opportunity for applicants to ask any questions they may...
David McLean
David is a graphic designer and an adviser on the Private Rented Sector. He designs and produces books, and acts as part time adviser to private landlords.
Bridges Ventures
Bridges are a specialist fund manager dedicated to sustainable and impact investment. Bridges use an impact-driven approach to create returns for both investors and society at-large.
CAN Invest
CAN Invest is a Social Investment Finance Intermediary that helps social organisations to expand their operations and impact by managing investments and accessing funds designed to generate social, as well...
haysmacintyre
haysmacintyre is a leading mid-tier firm of Chartered Accountants and tax advisers in central London, providing advice to entrepreneurs, fast-growing and owner-managed businesses, charities and not for profit organisations across...
John Kingston
John has a portfolio of roles in philanthropy and social investment, including Founder Chair of Access – the Foundation for Social Investment, a Non-executive Director at Big Society Capital...
Bruce Mauleverer
Christopher McCall
Michael Norton
Michael Norton is the Honorary Director and a Trustee of the Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action. He founded the Directory for Social Change in 1975 alongside numerous other...
NCVO (The National Council for Voluntary Organisations)
NCVO champions the voluntary sector and volunteering. They connect, represent and support voluntary organisations.
Michael Fowle
Melvin Coleman
Guy Baring
Sue and Oliver Gillie
National Funding Scheme
The NFS is a registered charity and provides the DONATEevents platform. Using mobile technology this simple solution enables everyone to give immediately to specific causes through the device we carry...
Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells’ pro bono practice draws on the experience of our professionals worldwide to improve the lives of those without access to justice or the means to hire lawyers, and...
Social Enterprise UK
Social Enterprise UK is the national body for social enterprise – business with a social or environmental mission.
Peter Lewis
Peter Lewis is Chief Executive of the Institute of Fundraising. His role involves responsibility for the overall leadership and management of the IoF, making sure the Institute delivers against...
Toby Blume
Toby has over 20 years’ experience of working in the not for profit sector, particularly supporting excluded communities to achieve positive social change. More recently, he has been working in...
Nigel Siederer
Nigel Siederer has offered to contribute with “advice on governance and strategy, particularly for small organisations that are just starting up with little money, want to talk through ideas, and...
Sayer Vincent LLP
Sayer Vincent is a firm of chartered accountants that has been dedicated to charities and social enterprises for over 30 years. Through their tailored audit and advice services, tey provide trustees...
Ashden
Ashden is a charity that champions and supports the leaders in sustainable energy to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon world. It is related to, but distinct from The...
The Ashden Trust
The Ashden Trust is a grant-making charity established in 1989 and is one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts. The Trust primarily supports programmes focusing on climate change, sustainable development,...
Caroline Mason
Before joining Esmée, Caroline was Chief Operating Officer at Big Society Capital and preceding that, Charity Bank. Caroline was also the co-founder of Investing for Good, a social investment...
Action Planning
Action Planning is a community of consultants serving the charity and not-for-profit sector. Chairman and Founder David Saint is recognised as one of the not-for-profit sector’s leading authorities on governance,...
Just Giving
Just Giving is one of the world’s leading platforms for Giving. Their 140+ staff each get time every year to pro bono for projects they believe in. Just Giving...
James Perry
James has spent the last 12 years building COOK, the social-hearted business he co-owns with his brother which now employs over 500 people and is rolling out across the UK....
Numbers4Good
The about us page on the Numbers4Good website says: “We are a team of professionals with expertise in designing and implementing innovative financial products and experience in working in...
The International Centre for Social Franchising
The International Centre for Social Franchising tackles the issue of scale; its mission is to help the most successful social impact projects replicate. The ICSF is kindly providing three...
Liam Black
Liam’s Twitter profile (@LiamABlack) describes him as “Trying to do stuff which is interesting and useful in the world. Blog here http://www.pioneerspost.com/collections/letter-young-social-entrepreneur”. Liam is co-founder of http://thesamewavelength.com/.
Trustees Unlimited
Trustees Unlimited is a joint venture bringing together NCVO, Bates Wells Braithwaite and Russam GMS. It was established at the end of 2009 to provide a solution to the...
Russam GMS
Russam GMS is the longest established interim management company in the UK and a leading executive search firm. With a particular specialism in the non-profit sector, we are happy...
Sarah Forster
Sarah is Director of Development at Big Issue Invest. Her biography on the Big Issue Invest website says: “Sarah has a strong background in international economic development, microfinance and...
Aperio Group (Europe) Limited
John Pepin runs Aperio Group (Europe) Limited. The first paragraph of John’s LinkedIn biography describes him as “Based in the UK for 15 years, I spent over 15 years as a...
Co-operatives UK
Co-operatives UK’s Twitter profile (@CooperativesUK) describes it as “The UK trade body for co-operative and mutual businesses. We help grow the co-operative economy by promoting, developing and uniting co-operatives...
Bates Wells
Bates Wells is a full service commercial City law firm working with a wide range of clients, large and small, across a variety of sectors – from established businesses, charities...
Ben Metz
Ben works with, and create environments for, organisations so they may do good better. Ben does this by taking his 20 years of experience across civil society and placing it...
Jonathan Jenkins
@j0nathanjenkins‘ twitter profile describes him as “the CEO of @TheSocialInvest. Ex @UnLtd. Ex City. Still a Spurs fan, a proud dad, trustee of @ethexuk & @starwards, hater of SWTrains.” Jonathan...
Social Investment Business
The Social Investment Business’ Twitter profile (@TheSocialInvest) describes the organisation as “one of the UK’s leading social investors having made over 1300 investments worth £370m in social ventures ranging...
Richard Tyrie
Richard Tyrie’s Twitter profile (@Rtyrie) describes him as the “Founder / CEO of GoodPeople & Trustee: http://unltd.org.uk . Quite social. Promotes moral courage.” Richard is a consumate salesman and a...
Media Trust
The Media Trust works in partnership with the media and creative industry to give marginalised groups and young people a stronger voice. They encourage the media and creative industry to share...
Matter and Co
Matter and Co’s Twitter profile (@MatterandCo) describes the organisation as “working with inspiring organisations across business and society to build success through powerful marketing and communications.” They have committed their...