Life Through A Lens was an inclusive photography project for adults with learning disabilities.  Led by a professional photographer, the 3 x 12 week project gave participants the opportunity to learn new practical skills and showcase their work at a public gallery.

Laura devised the project and attracted funding from the D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust and the Triangle Trust 1949 Fund.

Laura headed up the fundraising team for Oxfam’s musical fundraiser ‘Oxjam’s flagship event in London. 

Working with music industry contacts to secure headline bands, corporate support and sell-out the event .  It was the most successful Oxjam event to date, raising £12,000.

Christingle is The Children's Society's £1.2m fundraising appeal which has been happening for over forty years. Kate managed the Christingle team for two years, delivering successful fundraising campaigns.

Laura successfully won local contracts with Barnet London Borough Council worth £80,000 through a long, drawn out tender process!  This enabled Community Focus to deliver a range of creative projects, including drama, dance and puppetry, for young people with varying needs and abilities in the borough.

Raising £20,000 - a significant 10% of the charity's annual income, this fundraiser gave supporters the opportunity to learn a new instrument and perform within an orchestra for the day. And, of course, be conducted by the wonderful Sue Perkins!

Importantly for a charity which depended significantly on trust donations, this event enabled individual supporters to get close to the work of the National Orchestra for All and increase cash and regular gifts.

The Work a Miracle campaign at Tearfund was their first cross-organisational campaign with the target to raise £1,000,000 to give mothers access to the miracle drug that reduces the chance of transmission of HIV from mother to child at birth to just 2%. 

The campaign, co-project managed by Kate and Catherine Prescott (one of our favourite freelancers)  broke its income target going on to raise £2,000,000. 

Laura successfully bid for £70,000 from the government’s Transition Fund, to ensure the sustainability of Community Focus, an inclusive arts charity, through the cuts to public spending. 

Kate worked was the project manager for the fundraising campaign "Hard Truths" at The Children's Society for the initial phase of the campaign development. 

The campaign aimed to raise £50m over five years from major donors, trusts and communities. 

Any small charity depends on unrestricted income. The sponsorship programme at NOFA gave supporters the opportunity to support elements of the programme delivery and receive insightful communications.

This was introduced as a vital route to sustainable, lower-risk, long-term income streams.

Kate was brought in to Depaul UK to develop their community fundraising strategy, recruit community fundraising staff and manage the team and activities during a staff vacancy period. 

Kate managed the challenge events team at The Children's Society including a number of challenges such as Ride London 100, the Virgin London Marathon and the Great North Run. 

The National Autistic Society's festive coffee morning, developed in partnership with Consider Creative.

The Children’s Society National Coffee Morning fundraising appeal needed a refresh due to low uptake and an ever decreasing ROI.  Laura instigated an overhaul of the campaign, produced new fundraising materials and significantly reduced the expenditure.  ROI increased from 2:1 to 8:1 and raised £30,000 in Year 1.   

Kate managed the challenge events team at The Children's Society including a number of challenges such as Ride London 100, the Virgin London Marathon and the Great North Run. 

The Children’s Society’s Collection for Children campaign is an annual appeal to inspire exciting volunteers and encourage new supporters across the country to hold a collection in support of vulnerable children.  Laura injected new life into a tired campaign, raising over £200,000 across 2 years.

A sponsored walk for the National Autistic Society based on young autistic children's favourite, Thomas and Friends. Kate worked closely with HIT Entertainment, owners of Thomas and Friends, to deliver this sponsored walk campaign.

As part of a partnership with the Cooperative Bank, The Big Stitch was a project to knit enough sponsored squares to make a world record breaking Christmas stocking. 

Project managing the creation, two weeks before the day of the big measure, Kate discovered that the world record had been broken already in Canada. The team successfully broke the Canadian record two weeks later and contributed to a successful £1m Cooperative partnership. 

Kate acted as planner on this fundraising appeal from international development charity Tearfund to churches in the UK.

It highlighted the illness TB that claims the lives of three people every minute; and is contracted by nine million people every year. One-third of all Aids- related deaths are caused by it. Taken together, this makes it the world’s biggest killer, ahead of Aids, killing 2.7 million people every year.

Tearfund was appealing for money and prayer support from churches and organisations in its campaign to tackle tuberculosis. The campaign aimed to raise money to stop TB through a simple eight-month course of drugs will drive it from the human body. 

Safe Haven Children’s Trust is a small, international development charity with a UK team of two.  The brief was to create a fundraising initiative to inspire their support base, increase unrestricted funds and secure new supporters and volunteers for the charity.  

Laura devised and implemented the Safe Haven Hundred Club campaign – 100 people raising £100 each in 100 days.  There was zero budget for the campaign and research, artwork, printing and promotion was all done though volunteers. 

The campaign is now in its 3rd year and is now the flagship fundraising initiative for Safe Haven.