Clients

My clients work in areas that inspire me; most are in the arts, heritage and creative industries. Others are in hospitality and tourism. I also work with companies from various sectors who simply want to grow. Below are projects I have worked on both independently and in collaboration with associates.

1625 Independent People, Bristol
Accrington Market Chambers
Alexandra Theatre, West Sussex
Aviemore Highland Resort
All Saints Church North Street, York
Arts & Crafts Hammersmith for The William Morris Trust
Aviemore Highland Resort
Arundel Museum
Barn Grahams Trust, St Andrews
Be United, Edinburgh
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
Bradwell Abbey, Milton Keynes
Brass Music Festival, York
Bridlington Harbour and Marina
British Schools Museum, Hitchin
Bursledon Brickworks, Swanwick
Buxton Spa and Crescent
Cardigan Castle
Centre of Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
Chester Cathedral
Chester Farm, Northamptonshire
Chetham School of Music, Manchester
Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park
Collage Arts, London
Corinium Museum, Cirencester
Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot
Cowanes Heritage Centre, Stirling
Crawley Museum
Creative Action Hounslow
Dalrymple Hall and Arts Centre, Fraserburgh
Dean Heritage Centre, Forest of Dean
Dorking Halls
Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association
Dundee Music
Durham Cathedral
Durham Miners Hall
EDS Interior Design Studio, London
Ellis Design Studio
Errol White Dance Company, Edinburgh
Firestation Arts and Culture, Windsor
Frank Ella Heritage and Arts Centre
Glasgow Restauranteurs Association
Gloucester Cathedral
Haddo House, National Trust of Scotland
Harestanes Community Centre, Kirkintilloch
Highland Festival, Inverness
House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
Irwell City Park, Salford
John Bunyan Museum, Bedford
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
Kirkintilloch Cultural Centre
Lapworth Museum of Geology, Birmingham
Liverpool Playhouse
Loch Lomond Shores, Glasgow
London Contemporary Dance School
Milton Keynes Art Centre
Monifieth Community Centre
Museum of Chelmsford
Museum of Somerset
North East Museums, Newcastle
MUA Modes Museum Software, Derby
Museum of Chelmsford
Oxford House Community Arts Centre
Oxford Museum and Town Hall
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
Perth Arts Festival
Pewsey Heritage Centre
Portsmouth Museums
Prevista, London
Radstock Museum
Ridgmont Station Heritage Centre
Royal & Derngate Theatre, Nottingham
Rye Art Gallery and Museum
Scottish Seabird Centre, North Berwick
Seachange Arts, Great Yarmouth
Sheringham Museum
St Margaret’s Art Centre, Braemar, Scottish Historic Buildings Trust
St Neots Museum
South West Heritage Trust
SV2G, High Wycombe
The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
The Beat Project, Sittingbourne
The Beonna, Boston
The David Livingstone Centre, South Lanarkshire
The Davidson Enterprise Centre, Ayrshire
The Gorbals Art Initiative, Glasgow
The Hepworth Wakefield
The Hill House, Glasgow
The Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
The Merchant Hotel, Belfast
The Mitchell Library, Glasgow
The New Forest Centre
The Novium Museum, Chichester
The Patrick Geddes Centre, Edinburgh
The Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey
The Scottish Youth Theatre, Glasgow
The TOSG Gaelic Theatre Company
The Tron Kirk for Edinburgh World Heritage Trust
The Barns Graham Trust, St Andrews
Tiverton Museum
Torrance Community Centre
Tullie House Art Gallery and Museum
Ware Museum
West Square Hounslow
Winterbourne Medieval Barn
Wickerman Festival, Kirkcudbright
Wisbech and Fenland Museum
Woburn Heritage Centre
Woodchester Mansion, Stroud
Wycombe Centre of Creativity

Amanda Hart Director, Corinium Museum

Finella was commissioned to write the post-Covid Business Plan for the Corinium Museum using funds from the Government’s Cultural Recovery Funding. She worked with two other consultants to ensure the team had the breadth of knowledge and expertise to fully address all the Museum’s needs. Finella is a wonderful listener, making sure she fully understands the objectives and works closely with you throughout the project keeping you informed of progress. The Business Plan has proved a vital document in shaping the Museum strategy and we are already seeing the positive benefits of some of the changes we’ve implemented – thank you Finella!

Anthony Baker CEO, Barnsley Civic

It was a huge pleasure to work with Finella on our business planning and development at Barnsley Civic. Finella is extremely knowledgeable, skilled, strategic and most importantly hugely empathetic. She understands how to contextualise challenges and help search for solutions. I would highly recommend Finella if you want to work with a brilliant consultant who is filled with compassion.

Lindsay Robertson Arts Manager, City of Edinburgh Council

Finella provided us with the crucial basis for the project's business plan - and with good-humoured good sense and the occasional flash of brilliance. What more could you ask? The proof's in the Assembly Rooms project - which has been a great success.

Geoffrey Bertram Barns Graham Trust

Finella provided a detailed critical assessment and suggested a range of options which could help the Trust improve levels of funding. Their review has helped the Trustees determine what is, and what is not, worthwhile to pursue, and where the Trust could be doing things better. Overall, their insights have been very important in saving the trust time and money, and are the foundation on which future decisions are being made.

David Sutherland Chairman, Tulloch Construction (Project Partner)

Finella Devitt was attracted onto the team for Aviemore because of her input to the launch phase of the Lomond Shores development at Loch Lomond. Finella brought to the team zest, focus and strategic approach to the re-awakening of the Aviemore dream. Ms Devitt’s unique, refreshing approach to the marketing process re-kindled the enthusiasm of the management team to bring forward a development of equilibrium.

Graham McKenzie Director, CCA

Working with Finella Devitt has been a pleasure. She is focused, enthusiastic and totally committed to any task she undertakes. As someone who has dealt with more consultants than most people do in an average lifetime during the redevelopment of CCA, I feel well qualified to comment.

Liz Davenport Trustee, Woodchester Mansion

Finella provided us with an invaluable business review, in a tight timescale. She was easy to work with, listened to stakeholders across the organisation, understood our problems, and delivered a well structured to-the-point report. We are now busy implementing her suggestions.

David Leslie Chairman, House for an Art Lover

I regard our employment of Finella Devitt as having been a major success. We were looking for a Chief Executive with imagination and enthusiasm, who would establish a new enterprise – the House for an Art Lover – as a visitor centre and as a centre for the stimulation of interest in art, design, and architecture. Finella achieved all of that and in a confident and friendly manner, placed a stamp of quality on our product which sustains the company today.

Derek Reid Chairman, Loch Lomond Shores Management Company

Finella is a very gifted marketeer. Her enthusiasm, energy and creativity are infectious for everyone who works with her. She made an outstanding contribution to the development of Loch Lomond Shores when I was Chairman and she was CEO of the Management Company.

Anthony Kimber Chair, Rye Art Gallery Trust

Rye Art Gallery Trust benefited from a business development study by experts, including Finella Devitt, funded by Renaissance Museums. As Chair of the Trust, I was delighted to hear about ways to improve the business. Some of the recommendations chimed with our own ideas, but took on new relevance when endorsed by the study.

Joan Riddell Projector Director, East Dunbartonshire Council

Finella came highly recommended from colleagues in Scottish Enterprise, and worked with us to develop a business case for a planned Arts and Cultural Centre. Finella showed significant flair for engaging with stakeholders, communities, the client team and others, and her work was consistently of the highest quality. This is someone who clearly understands the needs of major capital funders and how to present a compelling and winning case.

Pamela Robertson Senior Curator, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

I have been involved with Finella in the generation of two bids to the European Regional Development Fund: for marketing the Glasgow-wide Whistler Festival and a Charles Rennie Mackintosh marketing campaign. In both bids Finella provided informed and strategic input, which was core to the successful completion of the bids. She was also a pleasure to work with.

Steve Carley MD, The Beat Project

I advertised nationally to find a unique person to help me develop a very large initiative and business plan, I was very lucky to find Finella who proved to be such an asset to my future plans. Finella was a pleasure to work with and I would recommend her to anyone who wants to receive a highly professional and friendly service that goes the extra mile to ensure you end with a product better than you envisaged.

Kevin Kaley Director, Tourism UK

Finella's hands-on experience in developing and running cultural visitor attractions was invaluable in mapping out and estimating the size and value of the markets for the new Hepworth Gallery.

Lindsay Gordon Director, Peacock Visual Arts

Finella was a delight to work with; from genuine listening to the client’s brief, enthusiastic grasping of the driving vision behind it, through to imaginative, fresh and, most importantly, appropriate ideas for making money. I would thoroughly recommend her.

Bill Neish Glasgow Restaurateurs Association

We had been nominated by Scottish Enterprise Glasgow for a Thistle Award and Finella had been contracted by them to help us prepare a submission... Normally the time to run a mile! On the contrary she speedily got her mind to the kernel of what we were all about and was responsible for an excellent piece of work. I had to liaise with her and found her to be very professional at all times in her approach, also her calming manner helped tremendously as the deadline approached!

Marc De'ath Culture Services Manager, Chelmsford City Council

Like many museums across the country, we needed to adopt a more entrepreneurial mindset. Our museum is a cherished local cultural asset, and we sought external expertise to identify new revenue streams. Finella not only pinpointed excellent commercial opportunities that aligned with our mission, vision and values but also helped us prioritise them, from quick wins to long-term areas for growth.

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