Pro bono services and free resources for charities
Proud to be have been supporting charities to thrive for the last 35 years.
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.
New FREE webinars now available to book!
We have more new FREE webinars now available to book, with more on the way!
Given the unprecedented range of leadership challenges currently facing charity CEOs, coaching and mentoring offer them an important potential form of personal support and development. Yet charity CEOs often find it difficult to justify spending money, and sometimes even just time, on their own personal development.
Join us for this one-hour webinar where Dr Andy Bird will share the findings of a recent doctoral research study exploring the roles that coaching and mentoring play for charity CEOs in the UK.
Wednesday 23rd April, 12-1pm
'Hot' resources, guides, and on-demand webinars
As we wrap up another month, we’re continuing our latest initiative of sharing what’s been the hottest online resource with our clients, website visitors, and webinar participants.
This month we are sharing the most visited resources page on our website during February - which was ‘Charity Strategy and Business Planning’.
This page is packed with valuable tools and insights to help charities with long-term planning and strategy development. It's a go-to for many and continues to be one of our most popular resource pages! If you haven’t explored it yet, take a moment to dive in and see how these resources could help strengthen your charity’s planning. And don’t forget to pass the link along to anyone who could benefit!
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.
