
Hiya, I'm Phyllis Martin, a Fundraiser, Trainer and Consultant with 20+ years of grant-writing experience. During my career I've worked as a producer for venues, festivals, touring circuses, and youth education projects. Glasgow has been my home for 15 of those years and I've been on the frontlines of arts, youth, and community charities, CICs, and volunteer groups in Scotland and across the UK, gaining invaluable insights into the grant-funding landscape.
As a consultant I've helped organisations of all sizes create fast and practical funding strategies. I've written thousands of successful grants, raising over £14m in the process. My expertise lies in fundraising, grant-writing, and funding strategy and I'm here to share my knowledge with you.
I believe in equipping busy third-sector people with the know-how, skills, and practical real-life examples that work quickly, so when the pandemic hit I started offering training. Anyone who needs to learn grant-writing fast can use my tried-and-tested techniques and tools to find more funders, manage their workload, and increase their success rate without burning out.
This started Truffle Pig Training and over 4 years I've supported 100+ fundraisers of all levels with live workshops, courses and coaching solely through word of mouth. I love what I do and I'm committed to helping as many frontline third-sector people achieve their funding goals despite everything being literally and metaphorically on fire.
This site is my funding brain in a jar. I hope you like it 😄