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.

TWO new FREE webinars open for bookings now!

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Metropolitan Police Cyber Protect: how we can help your charity

Wednesday 4 September 2024, 12 - 1.20pm

Join Metropolitan Police DC James Oskiera from the Cyber Protect Team to learn how to protect your organisation from the growing threat of cyber crime.

In this webinar DC Oskiera will take you through the basic cyber-hygiene principles that can mitigate attacks. He will share real-life examples that show how these principles have protected organisations from cyber attacks.

You'll come away from the webinar knowing more about the threat landscape, why cyber-attacks happen and what you as an organisation and an individual can do to protect yourself.

DC James Oskiera has over a decade of experience working for the Metropolitan Police and has experience handling the most complex of crimes. DC Oskiera is currently a member of the Cyber Protect Team and is integral to the delivery of Cyber Security advice to small to medium sized enterprises, charities and individuals

This is an essential webinar for all charity leaders looking to understand the steps to take to better protect their organisations from cyber attacks.

Find out more and book now

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Five Key Building Blocks for Managing Organisational Change

Tuesday 13 August 2024, 12 - 12.45pm

Is your team or your organisation ready for change?

Are you ready for the changes you may need to make to adapt your services and continue to deliver great outcomes (or even better ones) for your beneficiaries?

During this webinar, our highly experienced Head of Operations, Alice Dabrowska will present a simple model to help you reflect on some of the key questions you need to address when planning a change within your project, team or within the organisation as a whole.

Previous delegates have found this webinar enlightening: "Everyone has been buzzing about the training – and using the language to explain difficulties they encounter!! Amazing, thanks so much."

Find out more and book your place now

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

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.