Affordable and accessible.

We believe that expert guidance should be within reach for all charities. Our cost-effective pricing and proactive funding support ensure you get the help you need without breaking the bank.

Our Consultancy Solutions

At Mike Preston Consultancy, we believe in collaboration and flexibility. We work closely with you, tailoring our approach to your unique needs. Our focus is always on achieving tangible results that make a real difference for your charity.

Ethics & Pricing

We prioritize transparency, honesty, and integrity in all our interactions. Our client-centric approach ensures we act in your best interests, offering unbiased advice and maintaining confidentiality. We also strive to keep our services accessible through cost-effective pricing and proactive funding opportunities.

Expertise

Our specialties lie in governance, strategy, training, and impact assessment. We help you establish effective structures, develop actionable plans, empower your team through training, and measure your success.

In summary, we're committed to empowering your charity to thrive. We offer a collaborative, ethical, and results-oriented approach to consultancy, ensuring you receive the support you need to achieve your mission.

  • This review employs a multi-faceted approach, including document review, interviews, and observations. Upon completion, you'll receive a report detailing your strengths, weaknesses, risks, and an action plan. We'll then offer tailored guidance and support to optimize your board's impact, focusing on areas such as board effectiveness, skills audits, trustee training, and recruitment.

  • This review starts with a survey to understand your volunteers' experiences. Based on this, we'll provide a report, statistics, and identify themes related to the volunteer lifecycle.

    Next, we'll conduct a workshop to brainstorm improvements. You'll receive all proposals from the workshop, rated to help you prioritize quick wins and long-term changes.

    Finally, we'll help you implement and manage the volunteer lifecycle effectively, ensuring volunteers are well-supported and contribute maximum value. We can assist with all aspects, from recruitment and management to recognizing their impact.

  • We can conduct a quality review based on any themes or business areas you identify. We create a simple matrix outlining expectations and compliance standards. This is aligned to whatever element of the charity you’d like to receive.

    We can support you to develop quality frameworks or measure your compliance with existing frameworks. This could include internal or external quality marks. We will help you to review your current position and develop an action plan to help improve your compliance. 

    Following the review, you will receive a report including a copy of the matrix and notes, as well as a report outlining risks, as well as strengths an weaknesses. We ideally like to identify an element sector best practice with everyone we work with,

  • This workshop unites stakeholders to explore goals and objectives, conduct a funding review, and evaluate programs. Afterward, we deliver a tailored business plan aligned with your aims and suggest key performance indicators.

    Collaboratively, we'll map your services, identify efficiencies, and prioritize service users to increase your impact and reach. This involves process mapping, service reviews, diversity and inclusion audits, and impact reporting.

  • Through this workshop, we will bring together a wide range of stakeholders to explore the fundamentals of the charity.

    Reviewing or creating the charity mission and vision, values and behaviours and long term strategic objective

    The interactive workshop will produce a wide range of thoughts and actions, so following the workshop you will receive detailed notes and a one page infographic outlining the various elements of your strategy,

  • We can also build a project around your needs and capacity. Before we start any work, we conduct a deep dive into your charity to understand what’s going well, what you need help and what challenges you face.

    We’ll then go on to discuss the project you’d like u to work on. From this, we produce a proposal which outlines objectives, scope, boundaries, deliverables and timescale.

    We'd invite you to join a discovery call where we explore the challenge you're organsation is facing, and ways we might be able to help.

    We’re proud to offer flexible fees based on you’re organisations capacity