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LynchPin SupportLynchPin Support is owned by Nicola Lynch. Nicola has worked with a wide range of organisations and sectors across Cumbria for the last 17 years and you can find out What people say about me here.
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Our experience
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LynchPin Support was established in February 2016 by Nicola Lynch. Nicola is the lead consultant within the company but now works with a range of consultants and other experienced professionals to deliver her portfolio of works.
Nicola is an experienced business owner as well as people, project and partnership manager with a wide range of skills in evaluation techniques, bid writing, grant monitoring & stakeholder management. For 17 years she has worked across the private, public and charitable sectors in Cumbria (including holding the Directorship of a number of West Cumbrian Social Enterprises.) |
After a long ‘apprenticeship’ spent creating social impact she is now trained and active in the evaluation of that impact and its translation into social value. She works across private and public sector boundaries to support organisations in monitoring and evaluating their work for maximum impact for their stakeholders.
She works within a collaborative network of consultant organisations including MB Associates and Wingspan Consulting. She also works as a Social Impact Associate with the sustainability consultancy gaiacene. |
She is based in West Cumbria and is a member of Social Value International & Social Enterprise UK, an associate member of APM and is also an advisor to and ambassador for thirdbridge. She has hosted various events promoting collaborative approaches to - and information sharing in - the social impact space including a round table discussion at the 2017 Social Value International Conference in Manchester.
Recent clients range from large corporate bodies (Sellafield Ltd) to countywide charities (CADAS) educational institutions (Lakes College West Cumbria) and small social enterprises (Calderwood House.) |
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LynchPin provided insightful consultancy support into the Social Impact Framework for one of the UK’s largest public-sector contracts (£1.5Bn, over 10 years). Nicola contributed to the development of a comprehensive evaluation framework that captured critical outcomes and enabled the robust evaluation of an extensive programme of concurrent and multi-stakeholder activities over a 5 year timescale. The Social Impact Framework operated within a complex and diverse stakeholder environment, to which, Nicola, was adapt at challenging, demonstrating, communicating and evidencing how evaluation contributes to successful programme implementation. This initially involved identifying and capturing stakeholder values and attributing appropriate and efficient evaluation methods. This revealed critical impact data and more importantly valuable learning outcomes to assist in partnership maturation and subsequent programme optimisation.
Craig White
Sustainability Director / Gaiacene
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Nicola has been amazing, she talked the management team through the process of working out our 'social return value' then set to work. Several focus groups, questionnaires and a lot of honest and challenging reflection later we have a report that confirms we do 'what is says on the tin' and provides us with direction for the future. Nicola provided a professional service with regular updates on progress and opportunity to challenge her reporting. We were thrilled to hear that we currently provide more than triple the value of our current income but more importantly our beneficiaries really supported and appreciated what we do which for us was the most valuable outcome of the process. Thank you Nicola for being easy to work with and leading us through a complex but worthwhile piece of work.
Lorraine
Managing Director / Works 4 You Ltd
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Nicola was fundamental in stabilising the organisation and providing us with real vision for the future. She has brought a unique set of skills and proficiencies to support Mountain View Childcare in so many different areas. She is highly proficient, trustworthy and professional in all her work, while always maintaining the required confidentiality of an educational setting. Nicola is not driven by financial gain, but by the need to provide support and guidance. The grant funding that she has sourced for us has been invaluable in terms of delivering a number of our strategic objectives.
Clare Child
Director / Mountain View Childcare
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Nicola has extensive experience of working across Cumbria, sectors and communities. She has an ability to ‘think big’ connecting projects and plans in a single framework, as well as an ability to plan detail. Nicola has a varied methodology and a range of measurement tools that she can employ to suit the need of the work. Nicola can also translate complex ideas and plans into a simple, user friendly approach.
Kate W
/ Ewanrigg Local Trust
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· Social Impact measurement · Social Return on Investment analyses · Project needs analyses · Corporate Social Responsibility · Project development & delivery · Monitoring & Evaluation · Grant fund applications · Legal structures for charities and social enterprises · Business planning · Partnership Management · Stakeholder analyses · Trouble-shooting
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