ProBono Consultancy
We are active, highly experienced, Management Consultants and Mentors. We apply our combined experience of well over 5,000 years gained by our members working with organisations across all sectors of the economy, not just the NonProfit (Third) Sector.
As a Modern Livery Company, our members are all closely involved in our profession and we all share a passion to give back to Society. We aim to help NonProfit Organisations located throughout the UK, essentially only limited by our members' ease of access to potential clients. The most effective way for us to achieve this is by using our expertise to make a lasting positive impact through helping the NonProfit sector on a ProBono basis. We aim to ensure our work achieves a sustainable positive outcome, either directly through the consulting projects we undertake, or indirectly by increasing through our mentoring support the skills and capabilities of individuals within the sector, so that they enhance the achievements of their own organisations. We summarise our work in the phrase "Giving and Gaining".
Charities seeking help
Consultancy support is offered free of charge, subject to our terms of business, to ‘qualifying’ charities by the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants at our sole discretion. This page will take you through the key aspects of seeking our support. In particular, the next section sets out a number of questions that client organisations have asked of us and how we have used our skills and experience to address them. If your situation is not covered, do not hesitate to contact our ProBono Committee, through which all our ProBono support is coordinated. Alternatively, request our support by clicking on this link to complete our short application form.
From Problems to Solutions. How can we help?
In the diagram, we have set out questions that frequently we have been asked. Of course different clients have different ways of expressing their problems, but we hope that this selection helps you to find a potential way to identifying your solutions with our help. The services we offer generally fall into the six areas we have set out in this diagram:
We start our involvement by discussing with each Client their issues and concerns, then from that we work out and agree a plan for providing support — through Mentoring or Consultancy. We then introduce one or more members of our Company to work with each Client according to our agreed assessment of their needs. Click on the diagram to go straight to our short application form to start our help.
Members offering ProBono consultancy
Members of the Company are encouraged to be available for pro bono consultancy assignments and hence contribute their time and experience to help worthy charities.
ProBono consulting work is a great way of ‘Giving and Gaining’. ProBono assignments add to personal development through the particular ‘third sector’ challenges encountered. Company Members have found that ProBono work within the sector yields new friends and rich new veins of consulting experience. We have developed a short "ProBono Prospectus", to provide an overview of what is involved. For more information on our programme, please contact our ProBono Committee at probono@wcomc.org.
Our Experience
Our Members are very experienced consultants, with expertise in wide range of disciplines that are highly relevant to the issues currently facing the Third Sector, including: strategy and business planning, financial management, purchasing, IT and telecommunications, project management, change management and communications.
Since starting our ProBono consultancy programme, some 30 years' ago, we have helped numerous clients 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.