Our Services

Achill Management offers consultancy support and advice in the three core areas:

  • Strategic consultancy
  • Organisational development and managing change
  • Developing an entrepreneurial approach – fundraising and income generation

Strategic Consultancy

We can help your organisation focus on its core mission and strengths by providing analysis and advice on

  • Strategy planning and implementation
  • Writing business plans
  • Organisational audits and reviews
  • Stakeholder engagement in business planning and stakeholder surveys
  • Finance planning and link financial management to the business plan
  • Board development, Trustee and Director induction and training
  • Good governance practice and advice
  • Improving service delivery
  • Research and evaluation
  • Feasibility studies and Due Diligence reports
  • Risk assessment and risk registers
  • Consortium and partnership working
  • Mergers

Organisational development and change management

At Achill Management we work with senior managers and Trustees to help charities grow, develop and change. We can work with your whole team to ensure that a change process is effective and as painless as possible. We can conduct an Organisational Audit to assess your structure, effectiveness, your strengths and weaknesses and make recommendations for action.

Among the areas we cover are

  • Vision and mission development
  • Organisational audit and reviews – including staffing, finance and operations
  • Organisational restructuring and operational planning, organisational design
  • Staff and trustee skills auditing and analysis, job role redesign
  • Human Resources support on staffing, structures, TUPE, redundancy planning
  • Staff handbooks and policies – reviewing and updating
  • Recruitment
  • Managing change
  • Facilitation and meetings management
  • Stakeholder engagement for change management
  • Teambuilding and staff development
  • Trustee recruitment and succession planning
  • Staff and volunteer management

Developing an entrepreneurial approach to income generation and fundraising

Charities are increasingly being asked to behave more like ‘businesses’ to be entrepreneurial and less grant dependent. We will work with you to help your organisation adapt to the changing demands of the funders, the commissioners and to develop new approaches to fundraising. We can help with:

  • Understanding social enterprise – what does it mean and how does it work in practice?
  • Working with your board, your senior managers, staff and volunteers to develop an entrepreneurial approach
  • Changing the culture from grant recipient to income generator
  • Deciding on the right structure for your trading company
  • Responding to contracts and commissioners
  • Developing a Fundraising Strategy
  • Applying for funds and making winning fundraising applications
  • Developing donor management systems
  • Marketing, promotion and communication strategies