Pro-Bono Consulting
Giving and Gaining’ in a Pro Bono Consulting Assignment
Members of the Company are encouraged to be available for pro bono consultancy assignments and hence contribute their time and experience to help a worthy charity. Pro bono consulting work is a great way of ‘Giving and Gaining’. Pro bono assignments add to personal development through the particular ‘third sector’ challenges encountered. Company Members have found that pro bono work within the not-for-profit sector yields new friends and rich new veins of consulting experience. Please contact Patrick Chapman at patrickchapman@btconnect.com.
Broad Consultancy Experience
Consultancy support is offered free of charge to ‘qualifying’ charities by the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants at our sole discretion. Our Members are very experienced consultants, with expertise in wide range of disciplines including strategy and business planning, financial management, purchasing, IT and telecommunications, project management, change management and communications.
We help with specific issues including, for example, facilitating senior management teams in thinking through future direction, providing advice and support in mergers, helping to resolve intractable performance issues or barriers to change.
Pro-bono Consulting Case Examples
Pro bono consulting case exampleWelcarePro-bono consulting yields all sorts of strategic benefits as illustrated below, but this special case study concerning the charity, Welcare, shows that pro bono consulting can also lead to substantial benefits of further direct expert and financial support. Click here for the special case study
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Pro bono consulting case exampleLondon Sustainability ExchangeCompany members supported the CEO and Board in re-assessing its strategy a few years after its successful launch, while at the same time helping them to introduce a new quality management system into the organisation.
Penny Shepherd, CEO, volunteered, “I am writing to
say a big thank you to the Worshipful Company of
Management Consultants for your support in developing
the new strategy. The way in which you undertook the
assignment meant that I was able to continue with it
seamlessly, building on the support provided. We have
also achieved Level 1 PQASSO and are now moving on to
Levels 2 and then 3 with your help. It really is very
useful to have an independent facilitator to help
guide us through it.” |
Pro bono consulting case examplePestalozzi Trust Sustainability Exchange
WCoMC helped the Pestalozzi Trust to review and adjust its core activities and develop new programmes. The Director of the Trust wrote: “I would like to thank you and the Company very much for all the help you have given us. It has been enormously helpful to us in clarifying our thinking and planning for the future. You have worked with me in developing many ideas and made several presentations to our Trustees and its Planning Group. All of this has involved a lot of your time and expertise, for which we are most grateful”. |
Pro bono consulting case exampleBritish Heart FoundationWhen the British Heart Foundation won the 2005 Charity Finance Judges Award for Charity Effectiveness, sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, CEO, Peter Hollins, chose a free consulting assignment from the Company as the prize. The agreed goals of the project were a thorough-going review of BHF’s purchasing arrangements, challenging members of the organisation to demonstrate the value for money that they were obtaining, and making any appropriate recommendations regarding organisation, approach or accountability to ensure that BHF receives best value at all times. Consultants, Liverymen Peter Scott and Paul Northcott found this to be a fascinating assignment, revealing much existing good practice as well as opportunities for further advancement of purchasing processes.
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