For charities and social enterprises

When recruitment drags, managers struggle, or teams lose momentum, delivery suffers.

Kelloch helps organisations hire well, support managers properly, and make better people decisions.

10 Days Average shortlist

90% Six-month retention

Flat Fee No percentage levy

Trusted by boards and executive teams across the UK

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Where Kelloch is useful

We help when people issues start affecting delivery

A key role is dragging

Managers carrying too much

Teams losing clarity

Board & Exec misalignment

Decisions circling without landing

Delivery pressure creating risk

What we do

Support that helps organisations move

Hire Well

Flat-fee recruitment and targeted search for charities, CICs and social enterprises. Clear briefs, better-fit shortlists and no percentage fees.

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Lead Better

Practical support for managers and leadership teams under pressure. Better conversations, clearer roles and stronger accountability.

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Decide Clearly

Facilitated sessions for boards and teams facing drift, friction or circular decisions. Clear outputs, actions and follow-through.

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Our Perspective

What tends to go wrong

In many charities and social enterprises, the same issues keep slowing things down: recruitment takes too long, managers are left to carry too much, and teams lose confidence when decisions are delayed.

Kelloch focuses on those pressure points so leaders can make sound decisions earlier, protect staff time, and keep delivery moving.

How we work

The Kelloch Framework

Our three-stage support path is designed to ensure you only pay for useful action.

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Triage

We help you get clear on the immediate block — whether it is a stuck role, a boundary dispute, or a team under pressure.

Sensible Intervention

We run a fixed-fee process to address the block: direct search, facilitated alignment, or practical management support.

Light-Touch Assurance

We check in at 30 and 60 days to verify outcomes and ensure changes remain in place. No extra fees, just verification.

Why choose Kelloch?

Useful support that leads to action

We’ve worked in the third sector for over 25 years. We know where hiring processes fail and where boards get stuck. We provide sensible, low-nonsense support that works:

Commercial Clarity

Flat fee transparency. Predictable costs for your board.
No percentage shock. Fixed fees that don't creep.
Clear value. Faster results without the agency overhead.

Speed + Retention

10-day shortlists. We don't believe in six-week drifts.
90% retention. Candidates who stay past the honeymoon period.
Post-hire support. Helping new leaders hit the ground running.

Sector Fluency

Board-ready credibility. We speak the language of trustees.
30-day guarantee. We stand by our recruitment results.
Actionable tools. Clear resources, not just abstract reports.

Proof

Real outcomes for sector leaders

We work with charities and social enterprises of all sizes. This case study shows how our flat-fee search and sector insight can unblock a difficult hiring situation faster than traditional advertising.

Challenge

A medium-sized Scottish mental health charity needed a Service Manager to lead a new outreach programme, after struggling twice to hire through open advertising alone. The board was concerned about delays to service launch and the risk of losing grant funding.

Our Approach

Ran a flat-fee search, promoting the role across targeted third sector channels.
Used our 25+ years of sector experience to shape an inclusive job description that spoke directly to candidates with lived experience.
Delivered a shortlist within 10 working days, with weekly progress updates to trustees.

Impact

Post filled within a month, ahead of funder deadlines.
£4,200 saved compared to agency percentage fees.
Retention success: candidate still in role after 9 months, with positive feedback from service users and the leadership team.

"Kelloch understood our pressures and gave us exactly what we needed: speed, transparency, and a candidate who has already made a real difference."

Chair of Trustees, Scottish Mental Health Charity

*Based on recent Kelloch assignments and follow-up feedback. We track shortlist time, retention, participant feedback and agreed action outcomes where clients provide follow-up data.