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ABOUT
The Luminary Research & Funding Group is led by a team of award-winning researchers, academics, writers and speakers who harness their skills and expertise to drive transformational change within third sector organisations.
We apply evidence-based research, data and storytelling to author compelling and successful applications that have secured funding valued at £90m+. This investment has ensured organisations can develop a new culture of agility and financial resilience.
As a female and ethnic minority-led company, our lived experience plus 20 years of industry knowledge is the golden thread that is weaved to realise the strategic, operational and financial ambitions of our clients.
Our empathetic approach, and entrenched understanding of the most pressing societal issues, assists organisations at the coalface to deliver exceptional quality and value.
We are regarded as the leading partner of choice and meet the demands of our clients, by gathering intelligence that defies the competition, infusing the art of story and stats to produce authoritative applications and research studies that result in sustainable and impactful work.
OUR TEAM
UCHECHI EKE
Co-Founder
Uchechi works with individuals and teams to further their strategic, operational, and financial ambitions, within the private, public and third sector, specialising in business development, organisational change management and fundraising, authoring successful funding applications with a combined value of £90m+ to date.
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In April 2020, Uchechi was appointed Chair of the Board for
the Centre of Pan African Thought, one of the foremost race
equality Think Tanks in the UK. Before starting Meeting of Minds
and her Consultancy, Uchechi spent 6 years working as a Civil
Servant, in Central Government as a Project, Contracts and
Programme Manager. Uchechi lives in Essex with her two small
children and husband.
LUNA MUÑOZ
Co-Founder
Luna is an award-winning researcher (PhD, FHEA, FRSA; Research Fellow of the University of West Indies and University of Liverpool), which ensures the work she does is evidence-based with robust methodologies. She also has led human rights-based learning principles in higher education, contributing to four commendations given by national accreditation bodies.
Luna also has strong communication skills with 100+ published essays/reports. She's produced reports for the Athena SWAN silver award, as well as having been an invited TEDx speaker.
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After progressing in academia to the level of Deputy Director of Research in Clinical Psychology and Deputy Director of Postgraduate Education in Primary Care and Mental Healthy, Luna left in 2021.
She continues to be passionate about inclusion and accessibility in education and is an activist for social change. She still publishes on mental health issues.
She currently lives in Liverpool where she home educates her autistic teenager.