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ABOUT US
advice2Go was founded in 1996 by
Isabel White as a generalist consultancy, providing a range of bespoke services
for clients in the non profit and public sectors, in the UK and throughout
Europe. We work with a close team of six associates and a wider group of
advisors who are able to apply the appropriate resources to meet each client brief.
Our team has experience in every discipline of public life from the Arts to
Waste Management.
Having specialised in
interdisciplinary, cross sector partnerships for the last ten years, we have
been expanding our portfolio to include more training, research and policy
development work alongside our direct, hands-on role for clients.In 2009, we launched our sister
organisation the influential list(www.theinfluentiallist.com)
which tracks influential individuals and organisations, monitors policy and
good practice developments and works with academic partners on developing
training programmes at an international level.
Here is more information about our team:
Isabel White MInstF, Director and lead consultant on most assignments
An
NCVO Approved Consultant for 11 years, Isabel founded her own fundraising consultancy
business in 1996, after 26 years in the private and voluntary sectors. She
manages a large network of associate fundraisers and social entrepreneurs, with
a huge breadth of collective experience, working in the public, private and
voluntary sectors. She has worked with over 180 clients, on over 200
assignments and in that time has helped them to raise over £22m. Her own
experience covers the arts, community safety, (dis)ability, education, enterprise, the environment, health,
heritage, housing, leisure, museums and libraries, recycling and green energy, regeneration, rights and justice, social welfare and waste management projects and
organisations, throughout the UK. She has also worked in Spain, the Netherlands,
Italy and Germany. Isabel has served on the boards of a number of educational and
not for profit organisations and has chaired a small grant giving charity.
Isabel has worked with young and
old people, gay and lesbian people, people with disabilities and special needs,
from minority communities, women’s groups and marginalized communities. She is
a regular speaker at voluntary sector conferences, and workshops, runs training
programmes (including an international masters programme in fundraising) in the
voluntary, community and public sectors, and has written features and articles
for a variety of third and public sector publications over the past fifteen
years.
Andrew Borge
FRSA MInstF – High Net Worth Donor specialist
Andrew
Borge started his own business 10 years ago, having spent 18 years in banking
before moving to the voluntary sector, with The Prince’s Trust, and four years
running a very successful charity and sponsorship programme for the Dr. Martens
footwear company. Over the last 10 years he has worked on a number of projects
including:
- Running the £9.4 million Armed Forces Memorial Appeal
- Working with the owner of “Havengore”, the vessel that carried Sir
Winston Churchill’s coffin on the River Thames in January 1966
- Raising funds to allow “Liberty Belle”, a B-17 Flying Fortress, to
make the journey from the USA to the UK
- Working with a team to create the £5 million strategy for the
Victory Services Club
- Helping to raise funds for the Winston Churchill Memorial and
Library, Fulton, Missouri, USA
- Creating a £1.2 million strategy for a new “Railways at War”
museum for the Swanage Railway Company (he was also instrumental in the
repatriation from the USA of the Pullman luggage van that carried Sir Winston
Churchill’s coffin)
- The public phase of the £6 million campaign to create the world’s
first major museum dedicated to Sir Winston Churchill in the Cabinet War Rooms
He is currently developing a £9m campaign for an ex-offenders project in South London and was formerly Campaign Director for the £6 million Police Treatment Centres
campaign. He is also a Trustee and
Treasurer of the Cornelia de Lang Syndrome Foundation.
Deborah Dow MInstF – High Net Worth & Community Giving specialist
A
specialist in individual giving, both at community and high net worth levels
(including many six and seven figure gifts), Deborah has run her own
consultancy business for the last four years following seventeen years in the
voluntary sector.Her
specialisms include corporate and individual fundraising, senior strategic
fundraising and marketing for clients in the housing sector, NHS Trusts (John
Radcliffe and Worthing hospital trusts), the hospice movement, neurological
services and children’s charities. She has been Director of Fundraising for Sue
Ryder Care and also managed public relations and corporate events programmes
for a number of clients.Her
previous private sector experience translated to development of new funding
products and partnership work with local authorities, commercial and benevolent
organisations. Her community fundraising experience includes planned/tax
effective giving programmes, direct mail, lottery and annual house to house
collections and legacies. She can also advise on back of house support and
admin, including database procurement, installation and management.
Dougal Squires, MInstF
– lead researcher and grant writer
Dougal
has been working as an independent charity researcher and fundraiser since
2005, much of that time as in-house researcher for advice2Go. His work has
involved research, case writing and applications to charitable trusts and
foundations, statutory funders and the lottery. Research has remained his
primary focus, and projects have included researching funders and project
partners, assessing avenues and techniques for fundraising, and profiling
individuals. Dougal studied at three universities (Strathclyde, Lund, and
Glasgow). His undergraduate degree was in Politics, and post-graduate degree
was in International Politics. This second degree was undertaken in an
international environment, with only a minority of the course members coming
from the UK. He wrote his Masters dissertation on judicial responses to the
trafficking of women.
Dougal has carried out research for the Monte
San Martino Trust, based in Italy and the UK. He has also worked for READ International, an education and community provider, relying on UK University volunteers to
deliver projects in Africa.
Andrew Moffatt - interim Head of Fundraising
With an MA in gender, society and culture, Andrew has worked in the voluntary sector for over 20 years, 15 of
those at a senior level, including Director of Fundraising and Communications
for Bowel Cancer UK
and Coram. He thrives in the more “challenging” end of the market including
HIV/AIDS, drugs and alcohol, homelessness and mental health. Whilst his
hands-on technical experience includes trust, corporate and statutory bids, he
has extensive experience of managing multidisciplinary fundraising and
communications teams. He set up a successful in-house face to face team for the
Mental Health Foundation and has overseen the development of new community and
events challenges, again increasing income and, importantly, return on
investment from these sources. Andrew has led on the rebranding of three of the
organisations he has worked in and has solid experience of developing key
messages for particular audiences, always with an eye to increased awareness
and income. He has also delivered training in fundraising and campaigning for
the Sheila McKechnie Foundation. Andrew is available for hands on applications,
to advise on marketing or to develop your organisation’s overall
fundraising/communications strategy.
Gemma Pettman MCIPR - Communications specialist
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