Testimonials
Our clients are diverse working in the UK and internationally within the social welfare, medical, and environmental sectors.
Chelsea Pensioners
“ASI has been supporting the Royal Hospital Chelsea for over 5 years and in that time has raised us over £3 Million of new money. Pretty impressive!”
St Clare Hospice
“From start to finish the process of working with Abbey Solutions has been friendly, professional and straightforward. John is highly knowledgeable and matched us with a fantastic consultant who got to grips with the hospice sector incredibly quickly and transformed both our processes and our income. The real magic was that John was focused on what we needed as an organisation, and our consultant really got to know the whole team incredibly quickly, and helped everyone understand the need and value of good reporting and communication with funders. I would highly recommend Abbey Solutions for anyone looking for a consultancy firm that is professional, and truly has good values at their heart”.
Rosie Knowles, Director of Income Generation
ASSIST
“Abbey Solutions has been supporting us with health and education project funding from both UK and Asian based Foundations for 1o years, helping thousands of young people have a better life”
Ranga Rao, CEO
PAX Peace
“Abbey Solutions International conducted a donor scoping and engagement action plan assignment for one of PAX’s programmes in 2020. Nicola, Haidee-Laure and John’s vast expertise in combination with their genuine intention to attentively listen to us, understand our needs and meaningfully support our fundraising outreach led to realistic and actionable results and recommendations. Thank you very much for your smooth work and ongoing support – looking forward to working together again in the future!”
Foteini Katzilaki, Business Development and Institutional Funding Manager
PAX Peace
University of Sussex
“We worked with Abbey Solutions in November 2019 to develop a case for support for the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme and to do a donor mapping exercise for the programme. It was a pleasure to work with John and the consultant assigned to us, Haidee-Laure. She had a keen understanding of the work the programme was doing and really helped us to conceptualise it in a way that is attractive to donors. We really appreciated her responsiveness, adaptability to our needs, attention to detail and the sense of humour she brought to the work. We highly recommend Abbey Solutions to others working in both the NGO and academia sectors.”
Laura Craggs, SSRP Programme Manager. University of Sussex
Amref Health Africa
“It was a real pleasure working with Abbey Solutions in May-June 2019. John and his colleague Haidee-Laure supported Amref Health Africa to review our trusts and foundations fundraising, including an in-depth assessment of our processes and ways of working, recommendations on resourcing and forecasting for the future, and a new, researched pipeline focusing on high-value prospects. From their initial response to our brief through to the final meetings, they were practical and responsive, and rather than give a generic response, they really focused on what Amref and I need right now to have the greatest impact on our fundraising. I hope to work with them again in the future!”
Katie Greywood, Head of Fundraising
St Helens Theatre Royal
“Abbey was fantastic to work with from the minute Claire Glazebrook was assigned to us for our funding application. She was extremely helpful, knowledgeable and worked tirelessly to ensure our application was complete to our satisfaction. She worked well with our accountancy department and all of our team enjoyed working with her. We would highly recommend her to any other organisation applying for funding within the Arts Sector”.
Chantelle Nolan Director, St Helens Theatre Royal.
Theatre Royal – Support with Arts Funding
Waterloo Uncovered
“As a young charity, fundraising is vital to Waterloo Uncovered. So who we hire and how we hire them, is something we take really seriously. It is also something we don’t have as much experience in as we would like, and why we asked John Abbey for support and advice. With all his experience, John helped us design and run the recruitment process, which has helped us recruit the person we are confident is right for the job. We couldn’t recommend Abbey Solutions’ services more.”
Mark Evans, CEO Waterloo Uncovered
Campaign for National Parks
“John Abbey’s strategic input was underpinned by his solid understanding of small charities. This meant that in addition to strategic advice we also benefited from useful practical advice, such as the development of trust pipelines. He was quite pragmatic, for example, in noting our reach is better suited to smaller corporations. We found this helpful to inform the development of a realistic fundraising strategy, which is feasible and achievable.”
Tomos Utting, Fundraising and Partnerships Officer
Avert
“Haidee-Laure, Abbey Solutions’ lead NGO consultant has just completed a piece of consultancy work for us, to review our approach to fundraising, with a specific focus on Trusts and Foundations. I’m really happy with the report she’s prepared, which has clear and strategic reflections and recommendations. She also provided a longer list of T&F than we had requested, including partners, delivering well beyond the brief. I really enjoyed working with Haidee-Laure – she’s intelligent, experienced, warm and engaging, and really built my confidence during our mentoring sessions.”
Kate Harrison, Head of Programme Funding
RAFT
“John has transformed our fundraising with his hard work, commitment and vision. His ability to translate RAFT’s vision into tangible project plans makes him an important and essential part of the Executive Team.”
Leonor Stjepic, CEO
West of Scotland Regional Equality Council
“We were very lucky to get the consultant that we did. Penny Cole working for Abbey Solutions was very hands on and gave us lots of templates to use for things like press releases, communications, and other things that we wouldn’t have had a clue where to start. She recommended that we apply for some enterprise support, which we did with her support and were successful. She recommended that we applied for core funding and gave us a list of funders to apply to – it really was a godsend. She really was fantastic and of huge benefit to us.”
This is what Mohammed Razaq told NCVO about our work with WSREC
Quarriers
“Abbey Solutions produced a very good, concise report on our fundraising function which was invaluable in taking forward this exercise”.
Quarriers Director
British Forces Foundation
“We have used the Trust services for many years. I must say the amount we have raised over the last 5 years due to their support has run into the hundreds of thousands. We are more than happy to recommend them”./em>
Mark Seymour, British Forces Foundation.
United Response
“Abbey Solutions was commissioned to carry out a HNWI appraisal which helped us develop a robust fundraising strategy for wealthy individuals.”
Lifelites
“Abbey Solutions support with our Trust fundraising made a significant impact and has led to a large increase in Trust income over the years enabling us to help more life-limited and disabled children in hospices with opportunities they wouldn’t otherwise have.”
Simone Enefer-Doy, CEO
