Help with reaching out to a key contact before applying for funding
Hi all, hoping to get some views from anyone with trusts and foundations experience.
I've recently joined a charity and am developing a capital application to a well-known foundation that has funded us previously. I've identified someone who sits on the foundation's advisory board and is also independently known to our charity. I'd like to reach out to them before submitting to sense-check fit and get their candid view.
The only contact details I have are their home address and phone number, found through their own separate charitable trust's charity commission details. He's old school and doesn't seem to have an email address.
Do you think calling him at home is appropriate? It feels like an invasion of privacy given that I'm not calling him about his own trust. My other thought was to send a letter with my details and suggest he gets in contact.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.