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“Ciara is a logical thinker. She uses her team’s knowledge, experience, and skills to best capacity for the smooth running of the task in hand as well as team satisfaction. She is a great team player, someone who can lead with ease, or fall in with a team effort for someone else's project.  She will always go the extra mile to get the event to where it needs to be and contributes generously to the success of others.”  Former collaborator

“Ciara’s personal warmth and charm helped us stay focussed and optimistic through some occasionally difficult periods: in our view, Ciara was the perfect professional for the difficult job in hand. By the time her contract came to an end, we had reached 94 percent of our fundraising target, a not inconsiderable achievement.” 

 Ciara was just fabulous to work with. For a start, she's a great listener and when pitching my project to her, she not only immediately got it's scope, scale and possibilities, but saw well beyond what I had imagined - bringing both promise and realism to our proposition. I unhesitatingly recommend her talents to anyone in the business of wanting to raise funds for their projects.

 Ciara worked with one of the East of England Co-op’s supported groups Co-op Juniors (The oldest amateur dramatic company in the UK) to develop a fundraising strategy and to prepare fundraising plans on their behalf. I regard Ciara as a highly experienced Fundraising professional and her work undertaken on our Society’s behalf with the Co-op Juniors revealed a number of new funding sources that will hopefully help sustain this group for many years.” 

 Ciara was recommended to come and assist with developing our corporate fundraising and building charity of the year relationships. It was a pleasure to get to know Ciara. She is professional and hard working and fitted in with the team extremely well. Our project was only ever going to be short term but I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending her or asking her to work with my team again on a wide range of income streams 

 My work with Ciara Scallon was based on my law firm sponsoring Aldeburgh Music concerts at Snape and Ipswich over the past five years or so. Ciara was our key contact at AM. Ciara brings a personal touch to the work and attention to detail, so that we had confidence that when we brought our guests to events, they would have a good experience. She also understands the lead times that we need to build sponsorships into our planning, so she always talked to us in good time about new projects. We did not always go for the projects she proposed to us, but we felt she always had us in mind 

 I have worked with Ciara over the past few years, through being a corporate sponsor of Snape Maltings. During this time, I have found her to be knowledgeable, approachable and thoroughly professional at all times. She has taken the time to understand our business, so that she can suggest opportunities which are a good fit and always has a positive attitude. Overall, Ciara is a pleasure to deal with 

 Ciara’s task was to propose and co-ordinate OOP’s fundraising campaign to restore and install a heritage  Peter Collins organ, to Orford Church, to which the instrument had been gifted. 

Ciara set about the task with great energy, bringing her experience and an acute strategic sensibility to a campaign which embraced trusts and individual givers. She developed a campaign which emphasised that this project was a benefit not just to the church, but also to the wider community, which it would continue to serve for generations to come. 

Ciara was extremely methodical, and meticulous in documenting the progress of formal applications. The efficiency of her work was enhanced by a clear understanding of what would not work and waste time, as much as what would succeed.