Craigmyle Fundraising Consultants Collection
UK Philanthropy Archive
Craigmyle Fundraising Consultants Collection
About the collection
The collection contains materials relating to the work and activities of Craigmyle fundraising Consultants from 1959 to approximately 2021. It consists of:
- Papers relating to the governance of the organisation (minutes and board papers)
- Accounts and financial documents
- Marketing and communications
- Client files
- Literature files
- End of Service reports
- Files on events and project
- Material relating to previous Director of Craigmyle, Godfrey Jackson.
About Craigmyle Fundraising Consultants
Founded in 1959 as the John F Rich Company, named so after the Company’s first chairman, Craigmyle Fundraising Consultants was founded by Donald Shaw and Michael Hooker, who met during the 1940s whilst studying at the University of Oxford. Donald Shaw, 3rd Baron Craigmyle was a wealthy Roman Catholic convert and a philanthropist who allied his own immense personal generosity towards good causes to encourage good fundraising practice in others. Michael Hooker was an educationalist who, following experience of working in New Zealand for the American fundraising group the Wells Organisation, returned to Britain during the 1950s and utilised this skillset to undertake fundraising work. Michael Hooker was installed as the first managing director of the Company once an office was set up at 11 Old Burlington Street.
The Company’s earliest focus was on education and schools, but they now work with various clients across sectors, including the arts, community welfare, ecclesiastical, education, health, heritage, and social enterprise.
Craigmyle has been a longstanding fundraising consultancy and in 2019 celebrated six decades of working with and supporting clients – between 1959 and 2019 they helped nearly 2000 charities raise over £1 billion at modern day value for capital and revenue projects.