OUR VALUED CLIENTS

Examples of the charities, organisations and sectors we’ve supported:

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC SECTOR

Police Arboretum Memorial Trust/
UK Police Memorial

Leaders of the Police service in the UK long held a desire to commemorate the thousands of men and women who have given their lives to protect their communities. The UK Police Memorial at the national Memorial Arboretum was dedicated in 2021 by HM King Charles III, then Prince of Wales.

Our team supported the Police service with a wide ranging Planning Study, including fundraising, design and build and governance. We were further retained to help establish a new charity, the Police Arboretum Memorial Trust. The project raised over £5 million in four years.

As a comprehensive, 360 option, the team continues to direct and manage all day to day aspects of the charity: fundraising, marketing and communications, government relations, design and construction, budgets and finance, reporting and compliance and project management of a world first digital and interactive remembrance programme.

Community Development and Public Sector organisations we have helped:

Save the Children (UK)

Barnardos (UK)

Commonwealth Argosy Foundation (UK)

Police Roll of Honour Trust (UK)

Birmingham City Council, Library of Birmingham (UK)

Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict, Oxford University (global)

UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UK)

Police Arboretum Memorial Trust/UK Police Memorial (UK)

National Forest Company (UK)

Oxford House, Centre for Religion and Politics (UK)

Warwickshire Rural Community Council (UK)

David and Christine Lloyd Jones Foundation (UK)

The Ulysses Trust (UK)

Amnesty International (India, South Africa)

American Red Cross (USA)

National Foundation for Youth (USA)

Clearwater Public Library Foundation (USA)

St Petersburg Public Library Foundation
(USA)

South Yorkshire Community Foundation (UK)

St Paul’s Community Development Trust (UK)

HEALTHCARE

St Luke’s Hospice, Sheffield

St Luke’s Hospice in Sheffield needed to undertake a multi-million pound redevelopment of its inpatient care facilities.  Morgen Thomas Ltd supported that outstanding organisation with a Planning Study to assess their potential for a major capital appeal, identify its leaders and major donor prospects and develop a strategy.

We then provided specialist support for their Trustees, senior management and fundraising team on a day to day basis as they implemented the Room to Care appeal – without erosion of annual giving.  St Luke’s exceeded its target of £5 million with a boost of over £850,000 in government funding and new major donors are now engaged with the ongoing programme work of St Luke’s.

Most importantly the people of Sheffield now have a beautiful, calming environment when they require end of life care and St Luke’s facilities now match the excellence of the care they have always provided.

Healthcare organisations we have helped:

Acorns Children’s Hospices (UK)

Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust (UK)

Royal Surrey County Hospital (UK)

Birmingham Women’s Hospital (UK)

Birmingham Children’s Hospital (UK)

Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (UK)

St Luke’s Hospice (UK)

East Anglia Children’s Hospice (UK)

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (UK)

SPARKS (UK)

The Carpenters Arms Addiction Recovery Centres (UK)

Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation (Canada)

Dr Peter Aids Foundation (Canada)

Phillips Eye Insitute (USA)

St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital (USA)

St John Eye Hospital (Israel & Palestine)

Canadian Diabetes Association (Canada)

EDUCATION

Birmingham City University

Birmingham City University has an exceptional reputation for widening access, developing skills and working in partnership with its city and region. It is also home to one of the world’s best music schools: the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

The Morgen Thomas team, with our regional and global experience in fundraising management for Higher Education and the Arts, helped the University develop a strategy to augment its £56 million investment in a new Conservatoire with a further £10 million of added value philanthropy.

Working with renowned classical music star, Julian Lloyd Webber, we provided ongoing support to the Conservatoire not just with the implementation of the fundraising campaign but also with the translation of the programme to become a highly effective, Development and Alumni Relations Office.

Education organisations we have helped:

Birmingham City University (UK)

University of Northampton (UK)

Edinburgh Napier University (UK)

University of East London (UK)

Elmhurst School for Dance (UK)

University of Derby (UK)

Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School (UK)

University of Wolverhampton (UK)

Royal National College (UK)

Wellington College (UK)

King’s School Canterbury (UK)

Institute of Historical Research,
University of London (UK)

Institute for Historical Research, University of London (global)

Priestley Smith School (UK)

Minneapolis College of Art and Design (USA)

St John’s University (USA)

Outward Bound (USA)

Berkeley Preparatory School (USA)

Milton Keynes College (UK)

Priestley Smith School (UK)

ARTS AND CULTURE

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is one of the world’s greatest orchestras.

Through objective consultation with donors and sponsors and benchmarking off our experience with orchestras and performing arts organisations around the world, we supported the CBSO in the development of a major donor and endowment strategy, the restructure of the CBSO Development Trust and the retention of a new Director of Development.

The CBSO went on to achieve its initial endowment target of £1 million, matched pound for pound by the Arts Council of England, and now benefits from some of the highest levels of philanthropy in its nearly 100 year history.

Arts and culture organisations we have helped:

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (UK)

Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds (UK)

Birmingham Conservatoire (UK)

New London Orchestra (UK)

The Silverstone Museum (UK)

Ford’s Theater (USA)

The Guthrie Theater (USA)

Nashville Symphony (USA)

Wolf Trap Foundation (USA)

Anthem Music Fund Wales (UK)

National Endowment for the Arts (USA)

Miami City Ballet (USA)

Colorado Springs Symphony (USA)

Children’s Theater Company (USA)

Motionhouse Dance Company (UK)