In an article for the Sunday Times Pilotlight’s business volunteers discuss how working with our partner charities has developed them personally, as well as professionally.
Pilotlight’s model is straightforward: four senior managers from different organisations are assigned to a small charity to coach its leaders. “Many charities are started by practitioners who have spotted a need,” said Fiona Halton, Pilotlight’s founder. “But often they do not have business skills. When more people start coming to them because they are filling that need, they need those skills to grow.”
A year after the executive volunteers have come on board, the charities’ incomes are 50% higher on average and the number of the people that they help has doubled, she said.