Sarah Louise Hopkins

An experienced charity CEO and social entrepreneur, as a consultant,
Sarah Louise specialises in helping amazing purpose driven organisations grow sustainably.

Through using social enterprise as a model for innovation, opportunity and risk analysis, she offers strategic and business development support to help charities and impact focused organisations explore social enterprise models and principles in order to create resilience, social impact, and sustainability. She offers strategic planning to develop robust planning for income diversification, creation, growth and scale of trading revenue, and enhanced service design and funding development opportunities She loves working with leaders, boards, and teams to create strategic and business development plans, and can train and facilitate social enterprise development so that risks and opportunities are fully explored for each organisation’s individual context through mentoring or workshops. She has experience in social impact investment and can help you prepare for investment, as well as planning for digital/ tech and contracted services innovation, and is experienced and imaginative with change management. She believes that consultancy has to offer good value and demonstrable results.

Her approach to consultancy is:

Imaginative, attention to detail orientated, beneficiary focused, warm, and balances an aliveness to unique practical opportunities with an analytical view of risk mitigation.

Always happy to have a chat!

Clients

Social Enterprises
Charities
Research Organisations
Social Care and Health Tech
Membership Organisations
Grant Giving Organisations

Some organisations she’s been privileged to spend time with have included: School for Social Entrepreneurs, Feed Me Good, Spicy Minds, Soul Trail, National Trust, Love Squared, and Social Care Wales

Qualifications

BA with first class honours in English from University of Bristol
MSc with distinction in International Development from University of Bristol
Fellow of School for Social Entrepreneurs

Experience

20 years plus in the charity sector, ten years leading social enterprises with trading turnover of almost a million, short listed for Great British Social Entrepreneur of the Year, School of Social Entrepreneurs Fellow, 2 years as a freelance consultant supporting brilliant organisations to thrive in nature and wellbeing, health tech, social care, creative arts and heritage and environment. Interim Chair of Trustees for a children’s mental health charity, advanced safeguarding (DSL), advanced trauma trained and mental health first aider.