Charity consultancy

Are you looking for individually tailored charity consultancy to help you tackle your pressing strategic or operational challenges?  Rob Legge is used to working in an inclusive way ensuring all key stakeholders are engaged so that the solutions recommended are most likely to be supported within the organisation.

Typically a consultancy will involve four phases:
  • Diagnostic
  • Research (internal and external)
  • Option generation
  • Recommendation, outline budget and implementation plan
  • Presentations to senior managers, staff and volunteers and the board

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CEO coaching and development of new strategic direction for Solihull based charity

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Rob is has worked with Solihull Action through Advocacy (SAtA), Warwick Vision Services and the Birmingham & Black Country Wildlife Trust on the development of strategic plans and identification of sustainable income sources.

Previous consultancy has included:
  • Work with the Governing body of a specialist school
  • Providing a "stress test" of a childrens charity development plan
  • Support to CEOs in various charities looking at changes from central to decentralisation

reasons to choose rob legge as your charity consultant

"Rob recently facilitated a strategic planning day for Ammalife staff, Executive and Trustee Boards. Rob was supportive to staff through the process of developing the agenda for the day, and flexible in his approach, as lockdown and restrictions altered how and when the day panned out, ultimately resulting in a virtual event. He kept the agenda varied and enjoyable to maintain attention, and was focused on ensuring clear, tangible actions were taken away at the end of the day. His experience in both international development and charity leadership were a huge asset to the success of the day."
L​ouise Jackson-Sanders, Experienced Public Health Practictioner and Programme Manager
​"Rob has been involved in the delivery of a major project involving the transformation of our Church Hall into an up to date, well equipped village hall. He assisted with initial Business Planning to meet the demands of our funders.... He challenged our assumptions, ambitions and ideas thus helping us to clarify our direction of travel and put together a very strong, and ultimately successful, bid for Lottery funding......He is a calm influence and has a solid grasp of the issues and an effective inter-personal style."
G. Gallagher​, St John and St Martin Church Balsall Heath
"A number of my staff and I attended several of Rob's leadership courses.  We enjoyed and learned so much that I decided to commission Rob to run a one day programme for all our managers with supplementary individual coaching sessions.  This was a great success and we recently brought him back to do a highly participative and stimulating bespoke session called "Developing Staff" at our management away day in October 2019.  I am happy to recommend Rob for his ability as an excellent leadership trainer and coach."  
​Pam Gill, Deputy CEO, Refugee and Migrant Centre 
"Rob ran an in-house training and strategy session at our worker's cooperative. Being a rather unconventional business model, we felt Rob had a suitably balanced understanding of our need to develop as a business as well as a social organisation. He was well prepared, responsive, good-humoured, and generous with his pre-planning and follow-up support. We would certainly like to continue working with him in the future to support the development of our management committee." 
Lila, Customer Services Worker, Essential Co-op
"Rob’s consultancy work to manage SAtA’s strategic planning process was both challenging and engaging. Rob established a good rapport with all stakeholders, including trustees; working inclusively to ensure everyone had the opportunity to share their views. The end result was a clearer direction, exciting new initiatives and a revitalised management team."
Debbie Powell, Chief Executive, Solihull Action through Advocacy
"Rob has been a huge asset to our charity as we develop a new strategic direction. We wanted to involve beneficiaries, carers, volunteers, staff and trustees in this process, and we needed someone with credibility and a personal touch, as well who could analyse and further research stakeholder inputs. We engaged Rob after a competitive tender process, and it was a good decision. His knowledge of the sector and the challenges/ opportunities facing small organisations has been a great benefit. And his skills in facilitating discussion in group discussions, without imposing his own views, had been wonderful. Rob delivered his brief on time and on budget, with a high degree of professionalism. He was a great choice and I am happy to recommend him."  
​Richard Orme, Trustee of Warwick Vision Services