# New consultancy offers strategic advice and research services

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/01/16/new-consultancy-offers-strategic-advice-and-research-services/
- Published: 2007-01-16T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Éminence Grise, a new consultancy led by Elizabeth Mills OBE, is offering advice,
research, and strategic counsel to voluntary, public and private sector organisations
that need support with “everything from fundraising solutions to company audits”.

As well as Elizabeth Mills, the founding members of Éminence Grise are Isabel Walker,
Sue Blackmore and Carole Wanless, all of whom have considerable experience of voluntary
sector planning, development, management, communications and evaluation.

Elizabeth Mills said: “We realised that as a group we were in a better position 
to offer charities our wide range of skills but we wanted to provide a cost-effective
solution so we are still freelancers in our own fields as well. This way we can 
keep abreast of current thinking and changes in practice, continue networking and
provide bespoke solutions to organisational problems.”

Several of the clients that the team has worked with have been at the forefront 
of the research into the ageing process and age associated disability, so the name
Éminence Grise, a powerful decision maker, or “grey power”, was chosen to highlight
this particular strand of expertise.

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