Nikki Wilson

About

Nikki helps people take part meaningfully in complex decisions, and helps organisations act on what they hear.

She’s a facilitator, qualitative researcher and strategic adviser with more than 25 years’ experience across charities, social investment, funding and research. She founded her own consultancy, Resourcefully, in 2012.

On our projects she leads participatory research and evaluation. She designs and facilitates citizen dialogues and deliberative workshops, runs interviews and focus groups, leads mixed-method evaluations, and is an experienced Action Learning facilitator. Her work covers young people and mental health, participatory grantmaking, culture and education, innovation and the environment.

Nikki qualified as a Chartered Accountant before moving into finance and programme roles at the British Red Cross and then social investment at the Social Investment Business. She’s since assessed grants for national funders, contributed to the Association of Charitable Foundations’ work on transparency, and served on several charity and housing boards. She’s also on the editorial team of the Social Research Association’s Research Matters.

That mix means she understands not just how people should take part, but how the money, governance and decisions that follow actually work.

EXPERTISE: Deliberative engagement and public dialogue · Participatory and qualitative research · Evaluation and learning · Grantmaking and social investment · Governance and strategy

QUALIFICATIONS: BA (Hons) History, University of Warwick · Qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAEW, 2002) · Professional Award in Enterprise Mentoring · ILM Action Learning Facilitation

ACCREDITATIONS: Fellow, RSA · Member, Social Research Association · Gold Level Trauma Informed Practice (Thrive London)