TESTIMONIALS FROM CHARITIES & SOCIAL ENTERPRISES

Here is just a small selection of the feedback that we've received from charities and social enterprises, sorted into sections for each of our main services: strategic consultancy & facilitation, fundraising strategy & income generation, trusts fundraising support, and training.

You can also check out our more in-depth case studies here.

Strategic consultancy & facilitation

I would highly recommend Lime Green. Mike has a wealth of knowledge and experience, and is very sensitive to knowing what works well and not so well. We had great coaching throughout the stakeholder consultation and strategy process, helping us in areas where we may have got stuck. Mike was always on hand to offer advice and accommodating throughout, whilst managing to stick to the original timeline.
Sue Cross-Bourton, Manager, Root Connections CIC

Lime Green Consulting facilitated an away day for our Board of Trustees – our first ever session to bring everyone together and look at key issues. From the very beginning, we had absolute confidence in the skill of the facilitator, so we knew that the day would be a success. And it was! Very professional and we really appreciated the follow up report and discussion afterwards to go over the day.
Becky Brooks, Director, Bath & North East Somerset Third Sector Group (3SG)

Clear, open, robust in process, understanding of our needs and aims, warm and approachable, accommodating facilitation style which brought everyone along on the journey. Thanks to the away day that you facilitated, we now have greater connectivity, more recognition of each team’s role and challenges, clarity around areas of responsibility, enhanced respect and organisational pride.
Kate Morton, CEO, Bath Mind

Mike was a supportive and engaging facilitator, who brought experience of other organisations where similar issues had been found and resolved. This added a fresh and valuable perspective to our discussions and freed us up to participate fully. Our team is now more cohesive and working together to address outstanding issues. The final report has proved an invaluable resource in drafting our new strategy, pulling together our discussions in a clear and easily digestible format.
Laura Gordon, Strategy Manager, CDP

Excellent service and support all round, thank you very much. Conscientious, thorough, skilled facilitation, with excellent feedback notes. Very approachable and I liked the general ethos of Lime Green Consulting - I felt you were really here to help us succeed, and this took quite a bit of pressure off me.
Melissa Hillier, CEO, Research Institute for the Care of Older People (RICE)

A huge thank you for the brilliant set of workshops you conducted for us. Over the course of the last month, you have provided such clarity and insight and whilst undoubtedly we have a challenge ahead of us, I feel so much more able to see a potential path ahead.
Olivia Cryer, Founder, The Conscious Travel Foundation

Fundraising strategy & income generation

We really valued the preparation you had clearly done. It was like working with someone who really knew us. You were able to explain ourselves back to us in ways we couldn’t see ourselves! We now know where our strengths are and what to focus on. We are heartened by how much untapped potential we have yet to capitalise on, and we understand the basics of what to expect in terms of return on investment.
Minaz Beddall, Chair, Berkshire Women’s Aid

Lime Green have been a tremendous support to us at Bridges for Communities - helping us to develop a fundraising strategy that is now being implemented and has seen the charity's income grow by over 50% in the last 12 months. Their systematic and personalised approach made it a pleasure to work with them.
Dan Green, Managing Director, Bridges for Communities

Your two full-day fundraising workshops have become our benchmark for successful consultancy. At the outset, we had very little experience of fundraising, and much of it was far from positive. By the end, we had mapped out a draft strategy and a clear fundraising proposition. We travelled further in two days than in the previous five years.
Mike Pochin, Chief Executive, Dorset Advocacy

Lime Green helped support our consortiums of grassroots organisations to explore their longer-term sustainability. They have now all formed a sustainability plan, gained knowledge and skills, and built sustainability into their approach. Lime Green have also strengthened our ability to be a collaborative, impactful commissioner, building in structures and support to the next iteration of our programme. Excellent all round, you provided excellent value for money.
Tom Isaac, Capacity Building Lead, London's Violence Reduction Unit (VRU)

Lime Green Consulting produced one of the best pieces of research that we have ever commissioned in the history of Worldreader. Their thorough evaluation of Worldreader's communications and fundraising strategies offered both strategic and practical recommendations not only for its UK engagement but its work globally. We very much appreciated working with you each step of the way. Outstanding support to Worldreader. Thank you.
Rebecca Chandler Leege, Chief Impact Officer, Worldreader

You've contributed so much to us during a challenging transition period - helping to mentor our fundraising team, secure crucial grant funding, communicate change to funders and plan our new strategy. Thanks to your knowledge, strategic approach and bid writing expertise, we can look forward to a positive future.
Denise Largin, CEO, Unity Works

Trusts fundraising support

Lime Green have exceeded my expectations. They are friendly and approachable, go the extra mile, and are extremely supportive and understanding of the funding challenges that charities face. The work provided has been of such high quality and I now have a case for support that I can draw from for all applications, as well as new funders to approach.
Tessa Armstrong, Executive Director, Voices For Life

Lime Green Consulting have been a great support in helping us continue to manage our trust pipeline. I have really enjoyed working with the team. It was so easy to get the process underway and I was really pleased with what they provided!
Stephanie Shanks, Fundraising Manager, Sight Scotland

Thank you so much for helping us to secure a large multi-year Lottery grant. You helped us to feel confident about meeting their priorities, emphasise our strengths, identify and address any weak points, interpret their feedback along the way, and finally write an outstanding proposal. The funding will make a huge difference to our work.
Tess Harris, Chief Executive, The PKD Charity

Lime Green Consulting have been great to work with - they listen and take the time to understand your organisation and its needs and put a compelling application together. Their current fundraising support is helping the charity go from strength to strength, helping with our cash flow and longer-term funding.
Theo Thomas, Finance & Personnel Manager, Copenhagen Youth Project

You provided insightful, expert advice and opinion which adds to our (trusts fundraising) strategy, and honest, reflective and courageous recommendations that will move our organisation forward. Your support has been transformative, hugely successful and by far the best consultative approach I've experienced. I’ve already been recommending Lime Green to anyone who will listen.​
Laura McLachlan, Director of Marketing and Fundraising, Worldwide Cancer Research

Lime Green Consulting helped us in successfully developing a trusts & grants pipeline, and did some fantastic work on setting up a strategy and developing a case for support for our charity. Very easy and collaborative, very thorough and clear, very open and honest to help us examine what needs improving, as well as what USPs we can exploit for fundraising. We feel confident that after working with you we can now successfully fundraise from trusts and foundations for our core programmes.​
Anne Weinhold, Business Development & Fundraising Manager, Royal Entomological Society

Training

Lime Green Consulting have run many fundraising training courses for our social entrepreneurs and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. I’ve been impressed with their understanding of the sector, professionalism and warm approach. We very much look forward to continuing our partnership.​​​
Dave McGlashan, Head of Sales & Product Development, School for Social Entrepreneurs

Lime Green Consulting has provided an invaluable service to the charities we support over the many years we've been working with them. They've delivered countless workshops around fundraising and we always have the most incredible positive feedback from the charities that attend. The team are experts in their field and have a very friendly approach to everything they do. We'd highly recommend their services to any charity or infrastructure organisation and a massive thank you for their services.
Miles Lloyd, Project Manager, 3SG  (a local CVS based in Bath)

Lime Green Consulting designed in-house trusts and grants training around our needs as an organisation. They worked flexibly with us and were very friendly and approachable. The training was excellent! Our team were all at varying levels of experience and everyone (even the most experienced) got something really useful from it. Thanks again to Mike and the team, I would highly recommend them to other organisations looking for in-house training.
Kat Lazenby, Fundraising Manager, YMCA Brunel Group

I have been to quite a few training courses run by the corporate sector and civil service, yet this course really stood out. The pace was perfect, content was fascinating, and it was so well managed to include and empower each one of us, despite our different organisations and varied levels of experience. The exercises and hand-outs are very useful for my organisations and for sharing learning. Thank you so much for providing such valuable and useful courses which enable real and lasting change for our community.
Eleanore Dickson, training participant

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