Fundraising Consultancy

We are proud to be offering a new service aimed at new and established charitable and not for profit organisations seeking strategic fundraising guidance.

Shelley Gregory-Jones has joined Thissen Consulting to work alongside Daphne Thissen offering fundraising training and workshops, and to help clients improve their fundraising income and strategies.

About Shelley Gregory-Jones MA, MBA (Cantab.)

Shelley’s career prior to 2006 was in leadership and other directorial roles in the UK charity sector. Since 2007, Shelley has specialised in fundraising – specifically

  • grants and contracts (local and national government),

  • corporates

  • trusts and foundations,

  • legacies,

  • major donors

    … across a wide range of causes.

Most recently, Shelley was Head of Funding at Allia, a remarkable charity that has been promoting social enterprise and charity finance for 20 years. It also develops community workspaces and builds supported modular homes communities that help homeless people to start a new life off the streets. Shelley raised £1.8m + in her first year – primarily from national and local government grants and contracts.  

Shelley’s previous Development Director and other fundraising roles include:

Lucy Cavendish College, (Cambridge)

Spearheading the University's drive to greater inclusion and diversity

(Trusts/Foundations and Corporates)

Ashden (London)

Promoting sustainable energy globally.

(Trusts/ Foundations, Corporates and Major Donors.)

Judge Business School Mentor, MBA Programme students

Projects focused on solving marketing challenges for charities/ social enterprises

Global Good Judge? (TBA)

International Cat Care (Wiltshire)

A world-leading feline charity

(Legacies)

Centre for Global Equality (Vice Chair)

Innovative solutions for the 4 billion people who live on $4 dollars / day  

CamSight (Trustee)

Supporting local blind and partially sighted people to live as independently as they can

The Sixteen (London)

A world-renowned choir, performing masterpieces of the Renaissance and Baroque.

(Major donors/ Trusts and Foundations)

Cambridge Aid (Trustee)

Small grants to local individuals and families in poverty

It's important to do a reality check on their funder story before they pile in and make applications. Funders tend to see through the marketing fluff and ask very simple questions because they're putting up cash and there is a lot of competition for it.

What are you going to do? What change will you create? Are you good at this? Is anyone better? Do you understand the need? Will you be able to measure the change you create? And, quite often, do we like you?

Shelley Gregory-Jones, Thissen Consulting  / 📧 shelley@thissenconsulting.com