Services & Clients

Works completed on behalf of clients recently include:
 
  • Social Impact evaluations & Social Return on Investment calculations
  • Works related to CSR and social impact for business
  • Tailored support around evidence collection, measurement and monitoring of social impact
  • Advice to organisations and other consultants on different approaches to valuing social impact
  • Research informing new community-based project proposals and developments
  • Social franchising feasibility studies
  • Grant applications & grant management including project development & delivery
  • Setting up a charities, Trusts and social enterprises (also converting those structures)
  • Business planning for charities & social enterprises
  • Supporting Trustees and/or Directors across a range of needs from HR to financial planning and crisis management
  • Brokering and managing informal collaborations & formal partnerships
  • Support in assessing and improving Governance
Recent clients include:
 
  • Sellafield Ltd
  • Doosan Babcock
  • Forth Engineering
  • WHIS (World Health Innovation Summit)
  • NHS Integrated Care Communities & Cumbria CVS
  • Cumbria Cricket Ltd
  • Calderwood House
  • Women Out West
  • The Happy Mums Foundation
  • West Cumbria Carers
  • Safety Net
  • Go Forth Ltd
  • CADAS
  • Rosehill Theatre
  • Stainton Village Hall
  • Works 4 You
  • Whitehaven Harbour Youth project
  • Ewanrigg Local Trust
  • Soundwave
  • Cumbria Youth Alliance
  • Young Cumbria
  • World Health Innovation Summit
  • Nacro NE
  • Cumbrian Girls Can
  • Always Another Way
  • Mahogany Opera
  • ICan Fitness & Health
  • Cumbria Social Enterprise Partnership


Evaluation and Business Development Services

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Tel: 07759 547853
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All my evaluation work is tailored to organisational need and available resources – although I draw on experience and learning from a wide range of sources each piece of work is individual. My approach is based on the following…
 
  • I consider myself an evaluator not an auditor or inspector. I take a collaborative approach to all my work and will value your own self-assessments alongside delivering on my role as your critical friend.
  • I understand that not every organisation has the resource or the need for a very thorough impact evaluation. I talk to every client about what they want and need before making a recommendation. These early conversations are always free and without obligation – it matters to me that you get what’s right for your organisation and the communities you serve.
  • I use the Social Value principles to inform my work but am not wedded to one methodology. I regularly complete CPD in a range of methodologies to make sure I have plenty of tools in my kit! We will work together to choose the methods and approaches that best meet your needs.
  • My language is jargon-free and plain English so everyone can engage meaningfully with the process.
  • I know that staff development and culture change are as important in understanding and improving your impact as report writing. I know that good practice is best shared by colleagues and peers rather than top-down by ‘experts’ and will work alongside your organisation to not only meet funders’ and commissioners’ requirements but to support genuine and embedded improvements. I also understand that these things take time and I’m in this for the long haul…
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​An Introduction to SROI
(Social Return On Investment)

​Click here to find out more about  ​Social Return on Investment
Or to find out more about how we can help you, ​please contact us:

Tel: 07759 547853
​or contact us