Ghamdan Al-Areeky

Founder & Charity Mentor I'm Ghamdan Al-Areeky, founder of Evolve Catalyst and a charity mentor. I work with small UK charities to build organisations that work, so they can focus on the people and causes they exist to serve. I spent more than 15 years working inside UK charities - close to the day-to-day, across operations, systems, fundraising and strategy. What I saw again and again is that the problems a charity struggles with on the surface usually trace back to something underneath: the foundations that were never quite put right. Governance that doesn't hold. A strategy that stopped guiding decisions. Systems the team can't rely on. Income resting on a single funder. That's the work. I help charities at every stage - people turning an idea into a charity, registered charities that never quite got going, and established organisations pulled in too many directions - get those four foundations right, in the order that matters for them. I don't hand over a report and leave. I work alongside trustees, chief executives and their teams: helping them reach the decision, then helping them act on it, so what changes stays changed. No cause should be held back by the organisation built to serve it.