I am an independent advisor, consultant, collaborator and writer within the social enterprise, community, and public sectors.
I can help with:
- Research, analysis, and policy formation
- Collaboration, alliance building, mergers
- Strategic reviews and business planning
- Designing and launching new programmes and projects
- Making a case to funders and policy makers
- Impact studies
- Leadership mentoring
My style is facilitative, working with clients and their stakeholders to find common cause, to clarify what needs to change, and to take practical steps to bring about progress.
I know about:
- Partnerships and networks
- Social enterprise
- Community development
- Funding and investment
- Improving organisational behaviour
I have wide expertise, having worked for 30 years in leadership roles across the social enterprise, community development, homelessness, infrastructure, and grant-making sectors.
Clients have included:
- Access Foundation
- Carnegie UK Trust
- Central YMCA
- Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
- Essex Council
- Forum for the Future
- Greenhouse Sports
- Gunnersbury Estate (2026) CIC
- Ealing Council
- Hackney Council
- Highfields Community Association
- Homeless Link
- Local Trust
- One Westminster
- Paddington Development Trust
- The Peel Institute
- Power to Change
- Shoreditch Trust
- The School for Social Entrepreneurs
- Social Enterprise UK
- Young People’s Foundations Trust
- Young Westminster Foundation