Recommendations

“Ally completed a long term governance project for OTR South East across 12 months, that saw us through a complete refresh of our clinical and service policies, processes and standards, and the training roll out programme to bring them all to life. Ally’s approach was refreshing, collaborative, and benefitted from her excellent attention to detail.
She delivers the project work and training in an inclusive style to suit all types of learners and needs. We recommend her wholeheartedly and thank her for her impact to making OTR even better!”

Kate Glasby CEO at Off The Record SE Hants

“Ally displays a unique combination of humility, tenacity and professionalism when dealing with people and complex issues. Being curious and open to learning new things was critical to successfully running a charity, as well as being able to relate to people from all walks of life. I have been impressed just how easily Ally deals with very different situations, and have no doubt that whatever problems need solving, they will be. A pleasure to work with.”

Stuart Hammond, Group Finance Director at Osborne and former colleague

“I had the pleasure of working with Ally in her capacity as the Business and Operations Manager with Location Fixers. Ally is a highly skilled project manager and deftly balances the needs of all stakeholders, often under pressing deadlines. Ally consistently identified ways to improve and implement policies and procedures that would support the growth and efficiency of our program. She is also a lovely, grounded person. Our team really enjoyed working with her. I wish Ally the very best in her future endeavors.”

Samantha Brett, The Vancouver Art Gallery and Brett Productions

“Ally may in fact be the fountain of all knowledge. Whenever I come to her with a problem within my organisation, she can always come up with a solution. She has extensive knowledge of the youth sector, charities, training, funding, governance and HR. As a trainer, she is clear, confident, concise and well prepped. As an advisor, she is level headed, considered, an excellent listener, and as mentioned above, a problem solver. Having worked in partnership with Ally for a number of years, she is one of the most consistent individuals I know, always following through with what she says she will do in an efficient and professional manner. With Ally you will always receive what you ask of her and significantly more, which has earnt her a trusted and well respected reputation within the charitable sector.”

Kailea Hurcombe, CEO at Solent Youth Action

Ally has served as the Project Manager for the Researchers in Fundraising (RiF) Handbook (https://rifhandbook.info/) for over two years since the project’s inception. The Handbook is a central online resource for knowledge, skills and best practice in the professional field of prospect research.

Ally’s contribution to this project can’t be overstated, and without her hard work, knowledge and experience we wouldn’t now be at the point of having published the Handbook. We are a group of volunteers contributing our time to this project on top of our day jobs, so it has an enormous help to have someone with Ally’s skill set and qualities steering the direction of the project and keeping us on track.

Within this project Ally has recruited, coordinated and managed volunteer working groups, worked with a web developer to create the online platform hosting the Handbook, helped set up a payments system so we can sell subscriptions, dealt with a number of legal and regulatory questions around the resource and the site, and planned a virtual launch event that had over 100 guests, among many other things. In addition to the operational management of the project she has also gone above and beyond to provide strategic advice around communications, marketing, and sponsorships, which has been a huge help.

This has been a challenging project at times, but Ally has always dealt with these obstacles with the utmost professionalism and dexterity.

All in all, it has been a real pleasure to work with Ally and I would recommend her services without question to anyone requiring project management or operational/strategic support."

Chris Davis, Prospect Researcher and Researchers in Fundraising Chair