Our clients
changes current and recent consultancy contracts include:
Youth of Wolverhampton – - planning & facilitating an Away Day for staff and Board, July 2010
Redcar & Cleveland Partnership – Voice and echo facilitators training for Neighbourhood Management and partners, June 2010
Wolverhampton Voluntary Sector Council - planning & facilitating an Away Day for the Board, May 2010
Community Development Exchange - interim CEO role (Sal Hampson), Dec 2009 – April 2010
Wolverhampton Partnership - facilitating and supporting a cross-sectoral group to develop ideas, plan and begin delivery of a community engagement training & support programme in Wolverhampton, 2009-10
echo pilot – having a go with this framework which helps public agencies to assess and increase their openness to community influence, Dudley Children’s Trust & Wolverhampton Supporting People 2009 & 2010
bassac - developing ‘Made to Measure’ (M2M) a practical guide for community anchors to assess the impact of their work, 2009
Feedback on this guide received in June 2010 – “we’ve done two M2M follow up workshops now and the workbook is proving overwhelmingly useful and helpful to Community Alliance members – probably the most helpful product bassac has in its portfolio. It really helps people break down impact into manageable chunks, as someone said at one workshop ‘it helped me to knit fog’, and feedback is all really really positive. I am very pleased, so many thanks for all your efforts in conceiving it and producing the original draft”
bassac – delivering Voice and Voice facilitator training to bassac Regional Managers and Community Anchors in the English Regions as part of the National Support Service Campaigning & Advocacy Workstream, 2008 – 2010
Communities & Local Government – partner in the Black Country Empowerment Group (1st round Take Part Pathfinder), includes delivering the Take Part learning programme to 4 audiences; women; ABCD NDC area; LINKs Board; and a generic group as well as training Voice and echo facilitators: www.blackcountrypathfinder.co.uk , 2008-11
Improvement & Efficiency Partnership West Midlands – partner in the delivery consortium for IEP, specialising in the community empowerment aspect, 2008-2010
Dosti (Dudley’s Community Empowerment Network) –
- expanding on our work with Voice: networking facilitators, monitoring Voice in practice, gathering materials together, producing illustrative ‘insights’, 2009-10
- facilitating and supporting a small cross-sectoral group to develop ideas and plan a programme of community engagement training for Dudley Borough, 2009
- supporting Dosti members, with a particular focus on equalities, to share experiences and information about equalities priorities in Dudley Borough, identify evidence for those priorities and present them to the Community Strategy Review Group, 2009
- facilitating Dosti’s Executive Board Away Days 2007 & 2008
Cheshire Children & Young People’s hub – using the ‘Voice’ framework to carry out annual evaluation of hub work, 2009 & 2010
Voice sessions with groups – facilitated by changes:
- South West Forum, 2010
- bassac members, 2009-2010
- Bedfordshire Police Authority, 2009
- Dudley Community Centre Management Committees, 2009
- Wolverhampton Third Sector Partnership, 2009
- London Communities Police Partnership, 2008
- Blackburn & Darwen Borough Council: Street Ambassadors, 2008
- York City Council (Residents Associations), 2008
Training local facilitators to use Voice:
- Birmingham Take Part Initative (through BCC), 2010
- Redcar & Cleveland Partnership, 2010
- Black Country Empowerment Group – pathfinder participants, 2010
- Take Part Pathfinders (national) delivery partners, 2010
- Community First and facilitators in Wiltshire, 2010
- Black Country Empowerment Group – pathfinder participants, 2009
- bassac staff & members, 2009 & 2010
- Metropolitan Police Authority, 2009
- Blackburn & Darwen Borough Council:Neighbourhood Managers, 2008
- Dosti, 2008
Echo presentations, for:
- Wolverhampton Partnership, 2010
- Dudley Community Partnership, 2009
- South Kesteven Local Strategic Partnership, 2008
- West Midlands Improvement & Efficiency Partnership, L2D 2008
Nottingham University – delivering the module on Community Development and Health to Masters in Public Health (MPH) students, 2006-09
DiCE Training, for:
- Sharrow Community Engagement Team, Sheffield 2008-9
- Communities First Officers and residents in Wrexham, 2008 with mentoring support to 2010
- Shepway District Council, 2008
Community Development Exchange (CDX) – as part of the National Empowerment Partnership programme of work – research and development of guides for the Doing Community Development (DCD) planning & evaluation framework and the Axis of Influence framework. Also research and development of a framework for public agencies to assess and improve their openness to community influence, 2008
Sandwell Primary Care Trust – discrete consultancy to assist in formulating a process for developing a strategy to embed community development within the Public Health Directorate, 2008
Government Equalities Office – national programme of research titled ‘Women Take Part’ to produce guidance on models, approaches and resources which can be used to encourage, equip and support women who are currently under represented, to become more active, both formally and informally, in governance structures and other aspects of both community and public life. Undertaken on behalf of the Take Part Network, 2007 – 08
Dosti (Dudley Community Empowerment Network) – facilitating action learning sessions to explore community engagement for a cross-sectoral Community Engagement Working Group, 2007
Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health – community development training for early adopter LINKS projects, 2007
Canterbury City Council – community development and community engagement training, 2007
Coventry Community Empowerment network – evaluation of the CEN for Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, 2007
Brierley Hill Community Forum – research to inform an evaluation of BHCF around ‘what works’, 2007
Shoreline Housing Partnership – A two day course on community development and some practical approaches to working with communities, 2007 (with Steve Skinner Associates)
Take Part Network – member of the Take Part Network – co-authoring and disseminating the National Learning Framework for Active Citizenship Learning for the Department for Communities and Local Government; delivering a workshop on active citizenship learning for CDF’s Integration conference; delivering a workshop for Learning Skills Network on the Learning Framework, 2007
Age Concern England – mapping community development approaches in Age Concern organisations, 2006-7
Dosti – developing an evaluation framework for community networks to identify the level of impact and influence they have in relation to partnerships; using this framework with four case study voluntary and community sector organisations; developing materials and resources around using the framework, and piloting facilitator training around using the framework with groups, 2006-7
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council – exploring the relevance of the above evaluation framework for young people in Dudley, 2006-7
Dosti – researching the nature of influence to inform the evaluation framework, 2005-6
Community Development Foundation – National Training Programme – as associates of CDF, developing and delivering courses on:
- Achieving Better Community Development
- Community Engagement: core principles and introductory practice
- Understanding Community Development
(2000-2007)
Wolverhampton Voluntary Sector Council – designing and facilitating an event bringing together voluntary and statutory sectors around funding and Compact development (2006); facilitating discussions around the development of a resource for better partnership working, 2006-7
Housing Liaison Group – delivering a course on Managing Aggression at Work to people who work in the Social Care Sector, as part of HLG’s National Training Programme, 1998-2009
Chesterfield Primary Care Trust - delivery of 3 days training on the Doing Community Development: planning & Evaluation framework, 2006
Dudley Women’s Forum – designing and facilitating a morning session on ‘participation – what is it, why do it, how to do it’ as part of International Women’s Day celebrations, 2006
Age Concern England – developing a community development guide and associated training for Age Concern Organisations, 2005-6
Crown Prosecution Service – evaluating 3 national community engagement pilot projects: in Durham, Thames Valley and West Yorkshire and produce a guide to community engagement (as associates of the Community Development Foundation), 2005-6
Civil Renewal Unit – as part of the Active Learning for Active Citizenship initiative – developing a national learning framework for citizenship learning, 2004-6
Birmingham Women’s Aid – working in partnership with another consultancy to look at restructuring and reorganising the Birmingham Domestic Violence Forum, 2006
Academy for Sustainable Communities – designing and facilitating a multi-agency roundtable event for community development and built environment professions to explore the learning and development needs of sustainable communities professions (as associates of the Community Development Foundation), 2006
The Wildlife Trust – developing and delivering training on Community Engagement to Urban Greenspace Project workers, 2006
Telford & Wrekin PCT – evaluating a national pilot funded by the Home Office around healthy policing – working with West Mercia Police, 2005-6
Open University Business School – writing a distance learning postgraduate module around Leadership in the NHS for Nottingham Healthcare Trust managers, 2005
Bradford Equity Partnership – undertaking a feasibility study into income generation for their newly opened Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual (LGB) Centre, 2005
WEAD (Wolverhampton Elder Asian Disabled group) – support to look at roles and responsibilities of trustees, organisational development and action planning, 2005