Alex and the KEDA team were really helpful in shaping our funding approach and informing our decision-making. Informed, flexible and supportive, they worked hard to help us to produce high-quality applications, keeping us on track and up-to-date throughout the process.

I found the review of our trust fundraising programme, that was completed by Alex, to be invaluable. It helped us to shape our focus and strengthen the team for the future.

The KEDA Consulting team gave us an efficient service which met and exceeded my expectations. They gave us the headspace and objective view which we needed to drive forward our fundraising approach and realise greater success.

Keda provided  short-term, interim fundraising support for Cecily's Fund whilst we recruited a new member of staff. Given the fact that this was for a short period to prevent a gap in fundraising, Keda provided seamless support and also secured a large grant for us. They understood the brief and kept in touch throughout.

We benefited from a helpful report on fund raising options. I found KEDA reliable, clear and knowledgeable.

KEDA helped us to formulate our fundraising strategy and carefully consider areas of focus as we diversify our income base.

Fundraising beyond grant applications is a new area for me as the new Director with WERS. To have an experienced objective view of the charity and the sector in which we work which led to tangible recommendations was really useful.

An excellent provider with superb knowledge in the Trusts & Foundations arena. A supplier I take pride in working with to deliver the best possible results for our charity.

Keda Consulting provided far exceeded our expectations with their prospect researching. The leads they sent were tailored to our organisation and projects excellently.

Working with Alex was a real pleasure, he quickly understood what we do and what sets us apart and was able to incorporate this well into bids. The work was delivered on time, to budget and with great customer service.

Great service from Keda, good communication and well planned to ensure the application was completed within a short timeframe. Very pleased with the end result.

We have been working with KEDA for a year - the quality of work is always high standard and we now have a focused grants fundraising plan. As a relatively small charity with tight budgets KEDA give us peace of mind that every penny invested into fundraising is being worked as hard as possible!

The support I recieved from Keda to review my funding application was fantastic, it was thorough and prompt. It gave me real confidence in the bid I submitted.

A very good and clear articulation of our projects targeted well to potential funders.

Alex makes fundraising so much easier to do! I've worked with Alex on a number of applications and am always impressed with the quality of work produced in such short timescales. Alex is organised, straight forward and respectful of other peoples workloads - this means when he asks you for some of your time you know it will be used fruitfully. I really enjoyed working with Alex and would recommend him without hesitation.

Having been recommended KEDA Consulting by a colleague, I contacted Alex to request support with various funding applications for our Charity. He provided up and beyond what was expected, and I would confidently recommend him to all within my network. Thanks Alex for great work from everyone at Chilli Studios.

When I took up my post as Director of Fundraising at Contact a Family, KEDA had been supporting our fundraising for 5 months. I was very impressed by the amount that had been achieved in that time and the quality of the work. Not only had KEDA been focused on delivering income, they had made significant progress in developing much needed systems and processes. In my many years as a Fundraising Director I have rarely seen such positive impact from external fundraising support. I commend them to you highly.

The Inge Wakehurst Trust is a registered charity established for the benefit of those affected by autism and Asperger syndrome. I am chairman of the Trustees. Alex Blake has been providing the administration services for the Trust on behalf of The National Autistic Society for a few years. He has provided these services, which include secretarial and financial matters, with skill and efficiency. I am very impressed by his ability to coordinate the various functions required, such as organising and recording meetings, corresponding on behalf of the Trust, dealing with the accounts and the Charity Commission etc. He is also knowledgeable in the field of autism and makes a useful contribution to our Trustee meetings. I can thoroughly recommend him to anyone who uses the services of KEDA Consulting.

Alex provided excellent support to the Senior Leadership Team at Get Connected facilitating a series of sessions to set our organisational outcomes. He has also provided support articulating our case for support as youth helpline. He is personable, professional and has great knowledge of the trust and statutory sector.

KEDA provided our group with impartial advice, guidance and direction and facilitated a process which led to organisations working together to very positive effect. Without KEDA's involvement this would not have been achieved. Your involvement was invaluable.

Alex recently worked with CAF on an assignment working with an up and coming youth mentoring charity. He successfully co-facilitated an Away Day with the charity, presenting market and competitor analysis and facilitating group discussion around future strategy, as well as undertaking follow up prospect research. The quality of Alex's work on this was excellent in helping to ground discussion in the realities of the external environment and in keeping participants focused. I'm happy to recommend Alex's services to others.

I commissioned KEDA Consulting because I know Alex has the ability to clearly articulate what can seem like complex impact reporting frameworks and evaluation methodologies, using plain English and real life examples. Alex has an engaging style that is well suited to working with service staff who are not familiar with the terminology used by funders and fundraisers.

Alex's fundraising experience is very useful in the strategic context.

As Chairman of the the Board of Trustees for the Toby Henderson Trust I would like endorse the work of Alex Blake from Keda Consulting. Alex is responsive, straight talking and clearly good at his job. I was relatively new to being a trustee when Alex first started and I was skeptical. However, everyone in the trust knew we had to be more proactive with our fund raising so we made a commitment to Alex for a year. He gave us a sensible plan of action that was financially doable and worked closely with our Project Director to identify the best possible sources of support before starting to research and make applications. A year later Alex has brought in twelve times the amount we invested in his services and we still have 17 outstanding applications that we have not yet heard back from. The largest contributor he found last year is funding the rent for our building for three years, I think that speaks for its self.

KEDA were an invaluable support in helping us define and move forwards the next steps for our fundraising strategy. We had recently been going through a strategic review of activities, and had no internal fundraising expertise or resource. KEDA filled the gap and lent us their expertise, making the whole process of agreeing a direction and finding the right support so much quicker and easier than it ever would have been without them.

I have always found Alex and his colleagues at KEDA to be friendly, helpful, informed and efficient. They have a wide-ranging knowledge of the range of funders (and their requirements) out there and a good sense of the needs of a small charity like ours. Their gift is being able to tie those two things together in well-written (and often successful) bids.

Alex acted as the critical friend we needed to improve our bid to a much better level.

Alex asked the right questions and understood quickly what our charity needed and how to get it. Then he helped us  formulate a relevant Fundraising Strategy that we have already started to implement.

Alex at Keda worked with us in exactly the way we needed. Given our limited internal capacity, he worked flexibly, and with patience, to deliver a number of fundraising applications in a timely, communicative fashion.

Alex was very professional and knowledgeable, would highly recommend him to help develop your business and organisational ideas!!

Working with Alex was great, he very skilfully held a mirror up for us, distilled lots of information into a compelling proposition and facilitated great conversations.

The results are working through but the process has been strong and filled the team and trustees with confidence. Alex is really straight forward. His experience comes to the fore and saves significant time.

Alex has been phenomenal in his ability to liaise with multiple internal stakeholders.

Alex understood our needs, worked closely with us and provided us with exactly the final product we needed. His communication was excellent. He was approachable and professional throughout

Alex was very straight forward to deal with and has a great depth of experience of statutory bids.  Alex and his team drafted two excellent applications for us which were thorough and well researched, one of which was successful.  Alex’s open communication style and clear identification of the challenges we faced on the bids were key positives of our working relationship.  I would recommend Keda Consulting.

You helped us secure funding and we have bids in currently. I enjoyed working  with KEDA and found you always professional and responsive. Thanks!

Quick, thorough understanding of need leading to the provision of a comprehensive and highly professional solution for our trust and foundation programme, and corporate new business research.

Keda provided  short-term, interim fundraising support for Cecily's Fund whilst we recruited a new member of staff. Given the fact that this was for a short period to prevent a gap in fundraising, Keda provided seamless support and also secured a large grant for us. They understood the brief and kept in touch throughout.

Keda have been an excellent partner for our charity and have played a key role over the last few years in supporting our growth strategy.

KEDA did an excellent job of starting up a trust programme at BCRT from scratch and providing continuing support during my initial period of employment.

We found KEDA professional and efficient. Alex had very good knowledge of the funding arena.

Experts in their field who have been a great help in securing new funds for our organisation.

KEDA are really easy to work with, and know the sector really well.  When capacity is an issue they have been so helpful in getting stuck in and helping us like part of the team to support us in our Trusts fundraising.  I really liked the COVID-19 briefings you did, they were so helpful especially so early on in the crisis.  I think picking up common challenge/opportunity topics like this and sharing some sector information is a real added value to the direct work you do with clients.

Keda Consulting have been consistently professional and generous with their time and specialist knowledge.

The response from Alex was both timely and most helpful. A true ally in a time of need.

Amy has been fantastic from day one. She has helped us develop and articulate our cases of support and identified new funders quickly and we are already seeing the results!

Working with Alex was a pleasure and he provided us with a smooth and efficient service as well as providing useful information we hadn’t thought of.

We have been extremely pleased to have already been working with Keda Consultancy as following the outbreak of Covid-19 they have been an invaluable resource in keeping the charity afloat.

Alex is always really responsive and focussed on the specific challenges we face.

I have always enjoyed working with Alex. He has really taken the time to get to know us and our project. I feel in "safe hands".

I wanted to send a quick email to let you know how brilliant Amy has been over the last few months.  With supporting the team here to get up to speed with Trusts and providing advice and insight where needed; writing applications and continuing to research new ones; helping with planning and budget work and generally being an ear for me when I need it; I cannot thank her enough.  She’s an asset to KEDA and here at Bliss we are so grateful for her continued experience and professional advice and support. This was really bought home to me today and it prompted me to write this!  I tell her how much we appreciate her all the time but wanted to make it more official, she really is fab!

Alex has been so supportive and worked tirelessly to secure us new funding, including over £80k from Arts Council England. Would highly recommend!

It is rare to work with a consultancy who offer both expertise to add value to your thinking and planning, and flexibility to respond to our need, ad hoc and planned. Thank you.

It’s been really helpful in helping establish where there are potential opportunities for us that we have not yet explored. We are now looking into them in more detail to fully understand what specific areas of work or projects could ‘fit’ and prioritising them. You’ve been clear in your communications and delivered to the timeframe we talked about, which is always appreciated!