Director Elizabeth Mills OBE is a highly experienced independent charity consultant. She has participated in several government consultations, and has chaired a public sector advisory body. In 2002 she was awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Jubilee Honours for ‘services to ageing research’.
Elizabeth’s wide-ranging experience includes: -
Impact assessment, strategic review, skills audit, fundraising and research strategy; hands-on Trust and Foundation fundraising;
Organisation of focused high-level networking meetings; Mentoring and training for chief executives, chairs and trustees;

Current and recent work
• Strategic Review for Friends of the Elderly
• Governance review for the Science Council
• Fundraising strategy, trust and foundation research for Bromley Autistic Trust

• Fundraising co-ordinator recruitment for Auditory Verbal UK
• Mentoring Chief Executive and Chair of Age Concern Gloucestershire
• Mentoring Chair of Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
• Board training day for Age Concern Gloucestershire
• Identifying and recruiting high net worth individuals for Help the Aged biomedical research campaign
• Setting up first World Homeshare Congress in 2009 for Homeshare International

Elizabeth Mills was Director of Research into Ageing (the UK national medical research charity) from 1990 to 2001, when she led the charity into full merger with Help the Aged. In 2000, she was awarded the British Society for Research on Ageing’s ‘Lord Cohen of Birkenhead Medal for Services to Gerontology’.
In 2002 she received an OBE in the Queen’s Jubilee Honours for ‘services to ageing research’.
Elizabeth’s wide-ranging experience of working with voluntary and other organisations has included:

• Undertaking impact assessments, strategic reviews, fundraising and research strategies;
• Organising focused high-level networking meetings;
She also holds the following posts:

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• Chair of (and consultant to) the Advisory Committee of SPARC – The Strategic Promotion of Ageing Research Capacity – a joint research councils initiative to promote high quality research in the field of ageing
• Member of the Programme Board for the Department of Health “Health Technology Co-operatives” initiative
• Honorary Director of Homeshare International
• Governor, Henry Box School, Witney
• Trustee of Barchester Healthcare Foundation, Auditory Verbal UK, the Henry Box School Trust, Bulldog Rescue and Rehoming Trust.
• Prison visitor, HMP Bullingdon