James Baddeley

In 2008, James began working as a management consultant specialising in the third sector & now provides a range of business consulting solutions to voluntary & community sector organisations seeking improvement &/or growth. As a consultant over the past 10 years, he has raised over £12 million for a diverse range of clients, including homelessness social enterprises, mental health charities, youth counselling services & Citizens Advice Bureaux. His evaluation work is extensive & includes working with Striding Out to complete an impact assessment study of the Prince’s Trust business programmes, as well as spending four years as a trustee of the leading Evaluation Charity, Charities Evaluation Services. Prior to becoming a consultant, James was CEO of the County Sports Partnership for Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, & prior to that Deputy CEO of Speaking Up (now called VoiceAbility); at Speaking Up, James raised over £3 million of income between 2000 & 2007, helping to grow this small, local charity from £100,000 annual turnover, a team of 5 staff, & a reach of 100 service users into a national charity with an annual turnover of £4 millon, a team of 130 staff & a reach of 3000 service users during an 8 year period. Other key experiences include spending three years as a regional committee member for the Big Lottery Fund, distributing grants of £10 million/year. He also has extensive experience of commercial sales & marketing, a background which provides him with a strong understanding of the business principles needed for organisations to be successful & profitable - vital knowledge for charities in today’s climate. James holds a Diploma in Fundraising Management from the Institute of Fundraising and also has an Advanced Certificate in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Find out more at www.jamesbaddeleyconsulting.co.uk

Big Society Funding was a social enterprise which helped individuals, charitable organisations, communities and voluntary groups to survive and thrive. The CIC’s founders - James Baddeley and Mark Ereira-Guyer - realised that small voluntary organisations would need help to ride the wave of change about to hit them and set about providing this support where it was lacking. Our mission was to equip smaller organisations with entrepreneurial and sustainable business skills to initially survive and then thrive in their creative responses to the new policy agenda. We worked with over 80 organisations over nine years and helped generate over £2million in income for the NFP sector as well as equipping 100s of charity leaders, staff and volunteers with new and improved skills and resilience to run their NFP organisations more effectively

Countywide sports charity

National award-winning charity that supports disabled people to lead the lives they want. Joined the organisation in 1999 as a volunteer and as Deputy Chief Executive helped it to grow from a small local charity with a £100,000 annual turnover, a team of 5 staff, and a reach of 100 service users into a national charity with an annual turnover of £4 millon, a team of 130 staff and a reach of 3000 service users by 2007.

Senior Product Manager for manufacturer of stationery and bags under licence for brands such as Disney, Diesel, Coca Cola, MTV, Harley Davidson, Hasbro, Caterpillar and Liberty. Organisational annual turnover of over £20 million Europe-wide with major accounts with retailers such as WH Smiths and Carrefour

Account Manager for supplier of own-label toiletries to leading retailers such as Sainsburys, Tesco, Boots, Superdrug and Marks and Spencer. Annual organisational turnover of £30 million Responsible for overseeing the development of new product ranges and for relationship management of M & S and Sainsburys accounts

My first job - selling cheese on the Harrods shop floor!