CHARITABLE FUTURES 2004
Affordable assistance for successful futures

Charitable Futures supports charities in finding their vision and planning ahead for the long-term, offering effective and measured approaches to managing challenges and problems and meeting opportunities for future development.

APPROACH AND SERVICES: Charitable Futures works in an open-minded and consultative way, ensuring Board and staff participation wherever reports are produced as well as close relations with clients whether short or long-term.
Services include:

• enabling Boards and Chief Executives to anticipate and create their organisation’s future;
• strategic thinking and planning, vision and scenario development, trend analysis;
• mentoring and leadership development, capacity building;
• organisational change consultancy;
• briefing, workshops, keynotes, lectures;
• developing work in the social care, housing and older people's fields;
• auditing and advising on the volunteering component of organisations.

EXPERIENCE: Foster Murphy is formerly Chief Executive of the Abbeyfield Society (UK wide housing and care organisation for 8500 people) and the Volunteer Centre UK (the national resource centre on all volunteering issues ), where he exercised the full range of leadership and management skills. Experience in five national level posts, each involving international representation. Skilled in strategic thinking, he is a passionate cause advocate, a visionary who can think laterally. He has a world-wide reputation in volunteering and services for older people and a long-standing commitment to excellence in management, leadership and governance in the voluntary sector at all levels.

CONSULTANCY: Since its establishment in 2002 Charitable Futures has worked with local, national and international organisations delivering strategic and staffing reviews, project development, board and senior staff away-days and mentoring – all with an emphasis on securing future success. Clients include Southampton City and Region Action to Combat Hardship (SCRATCH), Hill Homes, Help the Hospices, the Dyslexia Institute, the International Association for Volunteer Effort and the International Federation of Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies. Specialist colleagues to complement existing skills and to meet particular needs can be called upon. Rates are reasonable and are negotiable for small organisations or large projects, in all cases providing good value for clients.