Cranfield Trust

A record year of impact

We support social welfare charities through a range of pro bono services, tailored specifically to your needs. In our financial year 1 October 2022 to 30 September 2023 we experienced a record year of delivering our services to the sector.

We conservatively value our services to the third sector at £2,736,894

We started 467 new mentoring assignments and consultancy projects in the year

Across our services our volunteers gave 19,237 hours of management support to charities

100% of consultancy and mentoring charity clients would recommend Cranfield Trust to others

Find out more about Our Impact or get support for your charity.

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We're recruiting! Apply to join our Communications and Insight Team today.

We're excited to be recruiting for a new Senior PR and Communications Officer to help amplify our insight and to share our story. In this role you will help to shape the PR and media plan, create compelling content to generate media interest and for our digital channels, and help give Cranfield Trust a stronger voice in the sector and with stakeholders.

Deadline for applications has been extended to Wednesday 11 September 2024 Download the recruitment pack and apply today.

Resources, guides, and on-demand webinars

During our first #CharityManagementMonth we shared a range of resources, information and guidance to support to help build stronger, robust and resilient leaders and managers across the sector.

The month itself may be over, but all the resources (plus more) remain available across our website for you to access at any time convenient to you.

We have also created a round up of the resources shared throughout the month on a single web page to serve as a one-stop-shop providing quick and easy access to key information.

We are also currently planning our next FREE charity webinar. Meanwhile, don't forget you can access all our past webinars whenever you wish to via our on-demand webinar library.

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.