What we do
Academic Support
We specialise in the delivery of short-term academic consultancy pieces & communications designed to increase impact. Examples include support for the Tate Exchange Programme and a series for TESS-India.
Communications
We manage the International Development communications for The Open University and for Friends of Ibba Girls' School, South Sudan. Our dedicated, experienced team will help you increase your reach & improve donor relations
How did we get here?
HM Consulting and Son was founded in 2016. After joining the Higher Education sector back in 2011, Heidi McCafferty, its founder, saw the distinct inequities faced by many of those engaging in research.
Heidi met more and more academics and NGOs with hugely innovative, cutting-edge ideas, who lacked the institutional or organisational capacity, support or finance needed to translate these ideas in a way that ensured they could secure funding. Plus, many others struggling to deliver complex projects in tight time frames.
It was shortly after leaving an NGO that Heidi set up HM Consulting and Son to provide a rapid response service for universities and charities to deliver projects ranging from fundraising to academic research to event planning.
Recent projects include coordinating a new OpenLearn course, ‘Rising China and Africa's development - oil', supporting the University of Sussex to bid for funding from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and organising a series of events for Refugee Week in London, Belfast and Milton Keynes.
Testimonials
Professor John Benington, CBE
The whole campaign has been driven forward at a great pace and with complete professionalism
Chairman of Friends of Ibba Girls' School, South Sudan
Dr Umut Erel
Our project, with all its complexity, simply would not have happened without Heidi and her team
Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The Open University