“It’s good to apply our know-how and commercial thinking to help charities achieve better outcomes, as well as accelerating our personal development. It’s been a rewarding experience and we’re really looking forward to working with Impetus again.”

Pontus Lofquist, Associate Consultant at OC&C Strategy Consultants

Our world class pro bono network is made up of more than 350 professionals and 40 companies. Pro bono volunteers help charities to: coach leadership teams, develop strategic reviews and business plans, manage impact, fundraise and manage finances, and tackle legal issues.

In 2016, our pro bono supporters provided £1.4 million worth of expertise to our charities.

Pro bono stories

Bain & Company and Action Tutoring

In partnership with the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain & Company, we are backing Action Tutoring to deliver free, effective and high-quality GCSE tutoring to more young people. We plan to expand this collaboration over time in support of a targeted portfolio of charities that are ready to scale their impact. As part of this, Bain provided Action Tutoring with pro bono support on producing a three year growth strategy.

Blackstone and Venture Trust

Venture Trust helps people in Scotland overcome complicated or chaotic life circumstances. Blackstone helped Venture Trust analyse data on areas with socio-economic deprivation to find out where their services would be most needed.

Eden McCallum and Magic Breakfast

Magic Breakfast supports hundreds of schools across the UK to run breakfast clubs that provide healthy food to children who come to school hungry. Eden McCallum helped them look at how fast they could scale their programme from their existing 485 schools, whilst maintaining the quality of delivery.

OC&C Strategy Consultants and Power2

Power2 runs a programme called Teens and Toddlers – where disengaged students mentor toddlers in a local nursery. OC&C carried out a review of the market in which Power2 works, to help them see how their programme might appeal to their different funding streams.

PwC and The Access Project

The Access Project supports disadvantaged young people to get into university. PwC helped them assess their performance management requirements and translate this into the technical needs for the new IT system.

Blackstone and Dallaglio RugbyWorks

Dallagio RugbyWorks works with young people excluded from school. Blackstone built dashboards in Excel, helping them to understand their data better and how young people on their programme were progressing.

Pro bono supporters

Apax Partners

Ashurst

Bain & Company

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

BearingPoint, Management and Technology Consultancy

Benjamin Ball Associates Ltd

Blackstone

Clifford Chance

CVC Capital Partners, CVC and the Community

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dechert

Deloitte

Eden McCallum

Egon Zehnder

Fargo Associates

Fieldfisher

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Goodwin Procter

Kiddy & Partners LLP

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Livingbridge

Macfarlanes LLP

McKinsey & Co.

OC&C Strategy Consultants

Oliver Wyman

PwC

Sally Woodward, founder member of Sherwood PSF Consulting

Sousou Partners

Warburg Pincus International

Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP

Pro Bono