Telling your fundraising story

I took my first steps in fundraising thirty years ago. I’d left an account management role with a UK advertising agency and jumped into a $30 million campaign for the Sydney Children’s Hospital in Australia.

It was a memorable way to cut my teeth in a new sector. Eighteen months later, the campaign reached its target and I couldn’t have asked for a better introduction to capital fundraising and the power of philanthropic giving.

Later, when I took a sideways step into Education, the skills I’d gained as a campaign manager served me really well. Training staff, co-ordinating in-house fundraising appeals and delivering student well-being programmes, often meant drawing on my experience of running capital campaigns. Although I didn’t know it at the time, I also think a degree in Theology was an early marker for the work I’m doing now. Back then, I was fascinated by what made people want to stake their life on something. Not many of our clients would describe their ambitions with quite that level of intensity, but their commitment to a particular cause is often just as compelling.

At Gifted, alongside my role as Marketing and Communications lead, I’m fortunate to work with visionary clients; people who trust us to tell their fundraising story and have faith in our ability to help them achieve inspirational results. Whether this is about creating a powerful case for support or responding to a wider brief for a suite of capital campaign materials, our goal is always to deliver work that combines a deep understanding of the project with professional design expertise.

Further information

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Client assignments

Animals & Environment

  • CPRE Peak District & South Yorkshire
  • Dublin Bay Biosphere
  • Refuge4Pets
  • Royal Veterinary College
  • RSPCA Halifax Huddersfield Bradford
  • The Kennel Club Charitable Trust

Arts, Culture & Heritage

  • Queen Street School Preservation Trust
  • Rochdale Town Hall
  • The Egypt Exploration Society
  • The Leeds Library

Civic & Community

  • Age UK Herefordshire & Worcestershire
  • Dippy on Tour North West
  • Hadleigh Grand Feoffment Charity
  • Saffron Walden Almshouses
  • The Almshouse Association
  • Helping Hands community Project

Education

  • Coventry School Foundation
  • Kenilworth School
  • King Edward V! School Birmingham
  • Manchester High School for Girls
  • Mayfield School
  • Wakefield Grammar School Foundation
  • Warwick Schools Foundation

Faith & Religion

  • Christ Church Cathedral Dublin
  • Gloucester Cathedral
  • Peterborough Cathedral
  • Beds & Herts Historic Churches Trust
  • Seacombe United Reformed Church
  • Shree Krishna Resource Centre
  • St Luke’s Sheffield
  • St Olaf’s Wasdale Head
  • St Paul’s Witherslack
  • St Peter’s Morley
  • St Peter’s Stockton

Health & Welfare

  • Bradford Hospitals Charity
  • Bolton NHS Charitable Fund
  • Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Charity
  • Challenging MND
  • John Thornhill Memorial Trust
  • Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Charity
  • Myton Hospice
  • Treetops Hospice Care
  • Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance

International

  • ADVANCE Charity
  • Alameda Institute
  • St John International
  • RCDSC Nepal
  • The British School at Rome
  • The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
  • The Omère Foundation Dubai

Sports & Recreation

  • Ullswater Yacht Club
  • Nene Park Trust
  • MCC Foundation

Young People

  • akt LGBTQ+ youth Homelessness Charity
  • Seas Your Future
  • Team Domenica
Services list

Feasibility Studies
Campaign Management

Strategy Reviews and Development Audits
Periodic Consulting

Legacies
Communications

"When you are so engrossed in your project day-to-day it can be hard to verbalise your project vision to the wider public because you are simply too close to it. Julie’s skills at understanding the EES and our future aims enabled her to help me craft our Case for Support in a way that will truly inspire our donors."

Carl Graves
Director, Egypt Exploration Society