Joe Ferns
Associate Consultant
Joe specialises in strategy development. He can help you create new ways to involve stakeholders and reach people who are often marginalised.
Joe has worked in the voluntary sector for 20 years, with 10 years in senior leadership roles. He has experience in service delivery, development and strategy. This includes running a £50m funding programme for the UK’s largest community funder.
Joe specialises in equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and anti-racist practice. He helped set up the Baobab Foundation. The Baobab Foundation is the UK’s first funder entirely focussed on supporting Black and racially minoritized individuals, groups and organisations.
Joe has sat on ministerial advisory groups and given evidence to select committees. He regularly contributes to radio and TV broadcasts on issues including mental health, suicide prevention, charity finances and trends in civil society.
Areas of expertise
- Strategic reviews
- Stakeholder engagement
- Organisational learning
- Service design and development
- EDI and anti-racism
- Funding
- Impact
- User experience
Joe's previous clients have included
- Maudsley Charity: Consultation and co-design on £2m mental health fund.
- Alliance for Police Accountability: Supporting programme design and fundraising.
- Baobab Foundation: Organisational development, strategy and funding design.
- Impact on Urban Health: Supporting the organisation to maximise strategic, long term funding relationships.
- Black Thrive: Undertaking a strategic review and developing a model of collective impact. Providing tools for learning, programme design, implementation and evaluation.
- Rainbow Migration: A strategic review helping the charity better understand the experience of LGBTQI+ Asylum seekers.
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