# Really Responsible offers cash and project management staff to smaller charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/02/11/really-responsible-offers-cash-and-project-management-staff-smaller-charities/
- Published: 2011-02-11T00:02:31+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Management training and consultancy company Really Responsible is offering to help
up to 50 small and medium sized charities each year with cash and skilled personnel
to complete a specific project. There is no cost to the selected charities, says
the company.

The initiative is open to not-for-profit organisations with an annual turnover of
less than £3 million and applications from charities are now invited.

The Really Responsible team will match skilled and experienced project managers 
to charities and they will work with them part-time, committing up to four days 
a month to their chosen project. Participating charities will also each receive 
£1,000 in cash, and the seconded staff will receive support from the Really Responsible
training team for the duration of the project.

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Really Responsible say that the funding for this programme will be provided by corporate
investors who put staff onto a six month leadership programme.

Helen Morris-Brown, founder of Really Responsible Training® said: “When I was the
Development Director for a small charity we were fortunate enough to take part in
a secondment scheme. We worked with the (then) marketing director from American 
Express who provided us with the skills and contacts to undertake a rebranding exercise.
It was a huge success and we would never have had the money or expertise to complete
the exercise in-house. My aim is for other charities to benefit in the same way.”

Nigel Greenwood, Former Marketing Director, American Express said: “I have been 
seconded to charities in the past and have first-hand experience of similar initiatives.
While I was able to share my skills and support projects that I feel passionate 
about, I did not receive formal training as part of the process. Helen and her team
have come up with something where both the charity and the volunteer grow”.

The next application deadline for charities is 31 March 2011.

www.reallyresponsible.com

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