Pro bono services and free resources for charities
Proud to be celebrating 35 years of supporting charities to thrive.
Our impact
Celebrating our 35th anniversary in 2023-24, the Trust provided more support than ever before. We started 527 new consultancy projects and mentoring assignments in the year, and had an extraordinary 919 projects active in the year in total. In challenging times, frontline welfare charities have needed support, and our volunteers and team have responded to their needs.
Our year in numbers
Cranfield Trust is the UK’s leading provider of pro bono management support, mentoring and development to small charities. Find out more>
National impact, local presence
It has been a record-breaking year for the Trust, with delivery of services far exceeding expected activity levels. Learn more>
Supporting across sectors
We provide our range of pro bono services to welfare charities and other non-profit organisations across the sector. Learn more>
It is our pleasure to present our Impact Report for Cranfield Trust’s 35th anniversary year, and to share the stories of some of the great activities we have worked on, and great charities we have worked with, during the year.
Our next FREE webinars are now available to book!
We have two new FREE webinars now available to book, with more on the way!
Sign up today to attend 'Volunteer recruitment, retention and reducing the barriers' and find out more about our other up-coming webinars.
'Hot' resources, guides, and on-demand webinars
To reach even more charities who could use some support, at the end of every month we are going to share what has been our 'hottest' online resource amongst our clients, website and webinar library visitors.
If you didn't already know, all of our online resources and webinars are FREE for anyone to use.
This month we are sharing the most downloaded file on our website - which for January 2025 was our 'Three year business plan template'. This is always a really popular resource and consistently features in our top 5 downloads.
Take a look to see if it could be helpful for you, or point anyone else who could benefit in the right direction too.
Case study spotlight
Journey to Excellence©: Building Circles
Building Circles was founded in 2006 with the overarching aim of reducing social isolation and loneliness in adults with learning disabilities and on the autistic spectrum in Gloucestershire. All of its work is developed in collaboration with people with lived experience.
Building Circles came to Cranfield Trust in April 2023 for assistance with measuring their impact and evaluation of its work.
A Cranfield Trust volunteer consultant, Tanwen, was identified to work directly with Building Circles CEO Helen Kay to help the charity understand how to evidence longer term impact, what data to collect, how to measure what difference has been made, and how to measure savings downstream with regards to other services in the community.
Find out more about how we helped and learn about Journey to Excellence(J2E)©.
Do you need help with your charity's strategy, business plan, financial management, governance, or impact reporting?
Check if your charity is eligible for our free and pro bono management support and discover how we can help.
Call us on 01794 830338 or send us an email.
