Trust & foundation fundraising
Funder research, written applications and a managed pipeline — so trust income becomes predictable rather than occasional.
Fundraising consultancy for charities
More time delivering. More funding secured.
Most small charities don't have a fundraising team. They have someone who fits it around the actual work — and a trusts landscape of twenty-two thousand funders that's almost impossible to search properly.
We do that part. We find the funders whose priorities genuinely match your work, write the applications, and put the systems in place so the income keeps coming after we’ve gone.
What we do
Fundraising first, and the things that keep it running.
AI & automation
Practical automation for small charity teams — the repetitive admin, reporting and data work that eats the week.
Strategy
A funding strategy built from what you can actually deliver — income mix, realistic targets, and the plan to get there.
Operations & streamlining
Fewer spreadsheets, fewer handoffs, less depending on one person remembering. For charity teams that have outgrown how they started.
The same intelligence, without the consultancy
To do the fundraising work properly we had to build the tool we wished existed: every grant-making charity in England and Wales, with what they fund, where they fund it, and what they’ve actually given over recent years.
That tool is Concord, and you can now use it directly.
Consultancy or software
- Work with us if you want the applications written and the pipeline run.
- Use Concord if you have someone who can write, and what they’re missing is the research.
Plenty of charities start with one and move to the other. That’s fine — it’s the same data underneath.
About
We work on the side of the people delivering.
Ackrem Consulting helps charities win money from trusts and foundations, and build the systems that keep it coming.
It is led by Andrew Wiltshire. You work directly with the person doing the thinking — no account managers, no hand-offs to juniors, no jargon for its own sake.
How engagements run
- Map your fit — what you do, who you serve, where you work, matched against every registered grant-maker.
- Write the applications — to each funder’s actual priorities and deadlines, in your voice.
- Keep the pipeline moving — deadlines, reporting, renewals, and the follow-up that wins the second grant.