About Clear Thinking Consultancy
Connecting services across the charity sector
Since 2010, we have been providing bespoke support to start up, micro and small voluntary and community sector organisations to help them get the resources they need to deliver crucial services in the community.
We wanted to make sure these organisations could access the kind of high-quality support that larger charities often have at their fingertips. So, we bring together associate consultants with different specialisms on a project by project basis so that our clients can benefit from our collective knowledge and experience.
By providing an associate service we can deliver high quality services whilst keeping our overheads low. This way we can pass these savings on to our clients, keeping our expertise both first-rate and affordable.
Full cost recovery
Scenario planning
Impact measurement
Research
Evaluation
Strategic Development
Facilitation
Fundraising
Diagnostic assessments
Meet the Team
Kita Ikoku
Founder & Director
Kita founded Clear Thinking in 2010 with a passion for supporting small community-based organisations. She has particular strengths in supporting them with their strategic planning, service costings and impact measurement. In her spare time, she’s happiest spending time with her sons and sitting in the sunshine.
David Blagbrough
Senior Advisor
David brings more than thirty years of international experience building partnerships with and between government, non-profit, corporate and academic organisations. He has provided strategic and operational support across all of Clear Thinking’s service areas since 2017. David is passionate about the opera, red wine and travelling, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Kirsty McGuinness
Data Analysis & Research Manager
Kirsty has been with us since 2019 and leads on our data, information and research. Formerly a Head of Department for Psychology, she is also a freelance teacher trainer and assessment specialist as well as running her own property company. Kirsty is happiest when she is outdoors, either training for marathons, travelling or out exploring with her three sons and dogs.
Jay Thompson
Associate Consultant
Jay supports our voluntary organisations in monitoring and evaluating journey progress bringing with her over ten years’ experience in child and youth development and supporting young people through alternative education provision. In her spare time, she is also a personal trainer, empowering both women and teens through fitness and confidence building workouts.
Lucy Rafferty
Associate Consultant
Lucy has over spent over 13 years working in the charity sector, within organisations that support children and young people. Her experience of charity operations includes programme management, strategy implementation, bid writing and quality and impact measurement. In her spare time she enjoys bike rides with her children and walks in the forest.
Bill Freeman
AMPACC Project Lead
Bill brings a wealth of capacity building expertise drawing on over 20 years’ experience in national charities supporting networks of local community organisations.
When he’s not working, Bill can usually be found at a gig, on the football pitch or enjoying time outdoors with his family around their home city of Sheffield.
Nikita Shah
Associate Consultant
Nikita has over ten years of experience in research, evaluation, facilitation and change management working with private and public sector clients, small charities and NGOs. She has worked on a range of issues including human rights, decoloniality, anti-racism, social justice, modern slavery, migration, safeguarding and climate change.
Outside of work, you can find Nikita in the dance studio or writing poetry with a hot cup of chai!
Coming Soon
Check back here to find out who will be joining our team as we appoint a new Marketing Lead.
