Action Planning delivers strategic guidance and a comprehensive range of valuable, cost-effective, integrated services that help CEOs of not-for-profit organisations to increase impact and effectiveness.
Our community of expert consultants can help you to:
- bring staff and stakeholders together
- assess any obstacles to achieving your goals
- look at all potential solutions
- create clearly defined steps
- have a clear view of what success looks like
Our exclusive offers to ACEVO members
ACEVO members are entitled to select up to three of the following offers within a 12-month period:
60-Minute Diagnostic Conversation
Have a chat with one of our Associate Consultants without charge or obligation – to explore specific issues you are facing, and possible solutions.
Action Planning CEO Profiling+
An online CEO psychometric profiling with a high-performance report, followed by a 90-minute advanced coaching session / one-to-one to explore working style preferences and areas for potential development.
RRP – £675+ Vat | ACEVO member offer – £399+Vat
Action Planning Chair Exclusive CEO 1-2-1 Mentoring
Up to 4 hours per charity of 1-2-1 mentoring with Action Planning Chairman David Saint, who has over 30 years’ experience in the sector.
RRP – £135+Vat an hour | ACEVO member offer – £70+Vat an hour
Book one of your Action Planning offers or call David Saint on 01737 814758; please have your ACEVO membership number to hand, ready to quote when asked.
If you would like information on other Action Planning services, please contact:
T: 01737 814758 or Email: david.saint@actionplanning.co.uk and quote ACEVO23
Action Planning’s full service comprises:
Governance – Enhance the impact, credibility and sustainability of your charity by working with our experts in governance and trustee training.
Strategy – Make informed decisions and be sure of delivering on your aspirations when you engage our experienced strategists to guide your planning.
Fundraising – Improve the returns from your fundraising with expert input from our multi-disciplinary team – for both strategy and implementation.
Marketing – Give clear direction to your marketing and communications and turn them into action with help from our charity marketing experts.
People – Find the right people for your organisation and get the very best out of them with our experienced approach to recruitment, training and mentoring.
Performance – Increase your output and deliver on your objectives with guidance from our experienced monitoring and management consultants.
The real jewel was David’s analysis of CEASE and the stage that we’re at as a charity. He really got that. He could perceive the challenges and opportunities that we face at this present time.
Vanessa Morse, CEO, CEASE
Case study: helping a well-founded charity step up to the next level
Every organisation goes through step change moments, one of the most tricky being that shift from “kitchen table” charity to “established organisation”. It is in these moments that external facilitation can be so valuable. CEASE UK, the Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation, had achieved much to be proud of since its foundation in March 2019 but now needed to step up. Having heard about Action Planning through ACEVO, CEASE CEO Vanessa Morse asked us to review her new strategy document and run a strategy day with a particular focus on fundraising.
Associate insights
A selection of thought leadership articles from Action Planning consultants:
- Long-term planning: lessons for charity leaders from the pandemic
- Developing a culture of monitoring, evaluation and learning
- Structure your strategic ambition in a well-monitored action plan
- The pros and cons of being an interim CEO
- How to succeed as an interim CEO
- 10 key challenges for not-for-profit sector CEOs (and how to solve them)
- 3 reasons why charity CEOs need mentors
- Thinking of becoming a charity CEO? Beware your own shadow!
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