“It’s been amazing working with Elena! She has been endlessly supportive, offering advice and working hard to help our very small charity grow and become more secure. She is kind and friendly as well as knowledgeable and organised. Really grateful to be working with her!”
Sarah Poekert
“I’ve absolutely loved working with Elena! She’s incredibly professional, warm, and knowledgeable, and made the whole process feel
“Working with Elena has been instrumental in allowing us to grow as a CIC significantly increasing our dance work with inter-generational and over 60s participants, both geographically across the South East and in terms of the number of people we can now reach. In an uncertain financial time it has provided stability and employment to our artists and has been key to our business strategy and growth.
Elena is super efficient and lovely to work with. She understands the particular perspective and interest of various funding bodies guiding us in a way which helps us aim at specific funds that chime with our ethos and mission as well as artistic ambition. We wholeheartedly recommend!“
Yael Flexer, Director of Flexer & Sandiland
“I’ve absolutely loved working with Elena! She’s incredibly professional, warm, and knowledgeable, and made the whole process feel smooth and easy. Her attention to detail, clear communication, and genuine care for her clients really stand out. I felt supported and understood every step of the way. Highly recommend Elena to anyone looking for an expert with a personal touch!“
Mohammed Towhasir Tawhid
“Working with Elena as our fundraising consultant has transformed Project Female CIC and provided us with the financial stability to grow our team and increase the number of young people that we reach.
Elena has perfectly articulated the core values of our approach, picked out the unique aspects of our organisation and matched them with appropriate funding opportunities.
Her support and expertise has transformed how we work and given us the security to plan for the future and for our directors to receive appropriate salaries for the first time.
The future of Project Female CIC is now looking much more achievable which is absolutely amazing within the context of all the other challenges that the cultural and youth work sectors are facing currently. We highly recommend working with Elena to any organisation!”
Pip Sayers, Executive Producer, Project Female CIC
“Elena has been a godsend. She is very skilled at quickly getting to grips with a complex project, shaping and aligning it with funder criteria and creating beautifully constructed, compelling and successful bids.”
Lisa Marshall, Head of Development, Trust for Developing Communities
“It’s been brilliant working with you. We really did have no idea where to start and we now have a proper roadmap to get our individual and business giving efforts started.”
Carlie Goldsmith, Crew Club
“I have worked with Elena over a number of years & highly recommend her. She has a really good understanding of our work, excellent attention to detail & is brilliant at shaping funding applications & proposals to help us reach our goals.”
Karen Poley, Director, KP Projects
“Elena developed our individual and corporate giving at Fabrica, establishing and nurturing a vital group of regular individual supporters who have continued to contribute to our organisation over multiple years.
Elena has always shown her care and understanding for the work we do and has been able to communicate that in ways that encourage support from various sources.
She worked with us to develop new project and programme case studies that articulate our impact in clear and accessible formats, which we continue to share to this day.”
Clare Hankinson, Co-Director, Fabrica
“We have worked with Elena on a number of bids in the past 6 months and the funding she has secured us has massively helped us reach our targets!
Elena is incredibly motivated and experienced and has guided us to create a niche for ourselves in terms of what we can offer which is helping us to produce bids that funders actually want to fund.
We’ve also been working with Elena on our overall Theory of Change and outcomes which has given us a much needed focus – for the work we are doing, in evidencing our successes and for the direction we take in the future.”
Sarah Turner, Head of Operations, One Church Brighton
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