The Experience Network

Consultancy Interests

Marcus is a highly experienced and accredited management consultant and former charity CEO, with well-developed strategic, income-generating, financial and operational management skills. He is a creative and innovative thinker who originally studied law, and worked as a Director in the commercial sector, prior to spending the last 20+ years working for and with charities and social enterprises as CEO and then consultant.

Marcus is a partner in Peach Consultancy, which has undertaken work in almost every discrete area of the voluntary sector, and conservatively raised over £50 million for civil society organisations. Peach Consultancy works with many funders, and is probably the most widely accredited voluntary sector consultanty in the UK.

We specialise in:

• capacity building, organisational development and governance audits
• strategic reviews and business planning
• income generation, fund-raising and social enterprise development
• options appraisals and feasibility studies
• tendering applications and commissioning
• partnership development and collaborative working
• social research, monitoring and evaluation

Previous larger national clients include:

• The Alzheimer’s Society
• Down’s Syndrome Association
• Age UK England
• Electoral Reform Society
• Comic Relief, Lloyds Bank Foundation, Young Foundation
• Breast Cancer Care
• MIND UK
• ACEVO (4-year ‘FCR national training’ programme and ‘Costing Personalised Budgets’ programme)
• NAVCA (‘Stronger Fitter Consortiums’ and the ‘Tendering Support’ programmes)
• British Deaf Association
• Spinal Injuries Association
• Music in Detention
• Bail for Immigration Detainees

Previous SME clients include:

• 170 Community Project, Bonnington Centre and Chalkhill Community Facility
• CVSs and volunteer bureaux in Croydon, Cumbria, Wakefield, Lambeth, Cornwall, Lewisham, Oxford, Sutton, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow and Hounslow
• Disability Croydon and Choice in Hackney
• Eaves Housing for Women and Agenda for Change
• Age UKs in Enfield, Croydon, Redbridge, Haringey
• MIND Cumbria and MIND Dartford
• CAB Epson and Ewell
• Headway Basingstoke

We are, or have previously been approved/recommended consultants for:

• ACEVO
• NAVCA
• Community Development Foundation
• Adventure Capital Fund
• Lloyds Bank Foundation
• Rape Crisis (England & Wales)
• MIND UK
• Age UK
• Evelyn Oldfield Unit
• Several local infrastructure organisations and CVSs

In addition to direct work with many civil society organisations, Marcus has also undertaken a wide range of organisational development and capacity building projects for representative and umbrella groups, and public sector agencies including Local Authorities, and Health Agencies.