Jane Newman Email and Phone Number

I am an experienced and successful fundraiser, having secured a £4.92m grant from Heritage Lottery Fund. I devised and delivered a Fundraising Strategy and Action Plan for a charitable Trust and local authority working in partnership to restore a Grade I Listed building and contemporary art gallery. I develop relationships with potential funders; write funding applications; and act as mentor/reviewer for others. Based on this success, I have recently become a freelance consultant specialising in fundraising for capital projects in the heritage and cultural sector. I am working with the Gunnersbury Park and Museum Development Trust to raise funds for the Museum. With the Trust I am part of a regeneration partnership group including Historic England, working on project viability for the Small Mansion and Stables on the heritage at risk register.Recently completed a project with Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre raising funds towards an exciting £3m new rehearsal studio and kitchens. Furthermore, I am working with a small local charity revenue fundraising for youth activities.I can add financial and creative value to make your project happen.

Jane Newman was appointed in 2008 by Ealing Council as a Project Manager in the Major Projects and Development Team. Projects span sports, cultural, heritage and parks and countryside. Jane uses her fundraising skills and bid writing to great effect, recent examples of grants secured include a £4.42m Heritage Grant (HLF); £2.4m Heritage Lottery Fund Parks for People award; £90k Sport England funding for a boxing club; c£100k for redevelopment of a disused river arch to create a kayaking club; £100k for renovation of a churchyard to create a community garden; £75k towards creating a new female gym; and a range of grants around £50k each for sports development projects. All these grants have unlocked other funding. Jane develops and manages projects from inception through to completion of capital building projects. Over the least three years she has developed expertise in the cultural and heritage sectors, including managing a project to restore and develop a Grade I listed building and Grade II listed park. Jane also specialises in heritage Church projects and raised significant funding from a wide range of Trusts and Foundations to restore a Grade II* bell tower at All Saints Church, Fulham. Jane will add financial and creative value to make projects happen.

Over 10 years, she has worked with several of the most high profile grant making bodes in the UK (including Big Lottery) and has evaluated hundreds of applications from the smallest grants to community groups to single awards of £12m. She is familiar with the operation of all the main national grant programmes. She was also an Assessor for Children In Need for many years. Prior to her current appointment, Jane was a consultant project manager for Ealing Council for some 5 years, delivering a range of capital projects for Active Ealing. She has gained in-depth experience of best practice in equal opportunities, management capacity, financial viability, reaching target users effectively, and the ingredients for successful delivery of a project. Jane has excellent negotiating and analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex issues in a simple style, both orally and in writing. Jane’s knowledge and experience include working for 3 years in the National Health Service, 5 years working in a law firm, and over 20 years working in the voluntary sector (Welfare Rights; Homelessness; Immigration), as well as the last 8 years working with a local authority. Jane has served 8 years as a primary school Governor, chairing the Premises committee, and has been instrumental on appointing architects to redevelop two Victorian schools, in a £6m capital project. Jane is a key part of the project team in this exciting capital project.