Helping Hands is an independent limited company consisting of fundraising experts with varied backgrounds and a wealth of skills and experience. When commencing a contract with Helping Hands you will be assigned a lead consultant, who based on their strengths and background, is deemed the best fit for delivering a comprehensive and bespoke fundraising strategy tailored to reflect your needs.
Helping Hands is led by Amanda Corcoran, a charity fundraiser with over 20 years of hands-on practice in both the Business and Charity sector. Through her motivated and driven approach, Amanda has raised in excess of £12m from funders, including the National Lottery Fund, Heritage Lottery Fund, the Peoples Millions, the London Marathon Trust, the Safer London Foundation and the National Sports Foundation across the voluntary sector.
Having succeeded at all levels within her charity career, Amanda founded Helping Hands in 2010, in order to use her experience and knowledge to help charities in need of support, move forward in the right direction in a cost-effective way.
Amanda shows proficiency within all aspects of her work and takes pride in delivering contracts with integrity and precision. Amanda specialises in bid writing, large and small, capital appeals, staff volunteer engagement and coordination and has a strong background of working from a community development approach with client groups across all sectors of society.
Erica Hadley Jarrett has 10 years experience in fundraising, business planning and community development. She has raised thousands from a range of trust and grant funders. Working with a number of not for profit groups developing many worthy projects to prevent crime, advance medical research, reduce exclusion, increase education attainment as just some examples. Erica is very passionate about creating a sustainable third sector and supporting work at grass roots level.
Asma Choudhery LLB, LLM, has a background in Law but found her passion in helping charities achieve their goals. With nearly 20 years of experience in the sector she has helped a diverse range of charities and has achieved six figure sums. Specialising in bid writing for Trusts and Foundations, Strategy and Business Planning, she brings a wealth of experience to the team.
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