Alba Fundraising Ltd. transforms not-for-profits’ fundraising abilities and overall capacity to create lasting change. With unmatched knowledge, practical advice, and infectious enthusiasm, we help struggling organisations to thrive again and help thriving organisations to raise the bar even higher. Founder Alba Lewis is on a mission to support the leadership of charities to understand, manage, and influence the future of those charities through income generation. Combining her MBA business sense with decades of fundraising practice, Alba is uniquely capable of bridging the gap between the Board and fundraising, Senior Management and the organisation’s influential capacity to raise money, fundraising and finance - creating solid strategies and practical plans, reenergizing fundraising teams, and supporting the Boards and Executives to influence best practice. “Charities are social businesses, often with multimillion pound turnovers. Unfortunately (sometimes disastrously) many charity leaders find it hard to understand that their organisation is a business and that sooner or later its business will struggle without strategic plans, investment, professional paid staff and well-managed volunteers. It is essential that charity leadership understands this challenge, particularly if reliant on public donations. Professional income generation is demanding and complex, and charities may be dependent on as many as nine different income generation platforms including retail shops, direct mail, events, legacies, grant-making trusts, gift aid, lottery, individual and major gift giving. If this sounds like it might be your organisation, my advice is to go out and get that expertise so that you can develop the 3-5 year, benchmarked strategic and actionable plan that will give your leadership and teams the confidence, skills and support they need to achieve targets. ” Alba Lewis MBA