Finding your business the opportunities it deserves

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With clients including Leeds City College, Olive Jar Digital, Salford Professional Development and Munroe K and contracts won for European Social Funding, Local Authorities, Police, Education, Crown Commercial Service and NHS contracts (to name a few) you can be sure you’re in good hands.
Specialisms
Public sector tenders
Education & Training
EU funding, particularly ESF & ERDF
Digital transformation and Innovation funding
Key Figures
£100m+ contracts won
152 Projects undertaken
37 Clients supported
90%+ success rate
Bid Management & Writing
- Completing bids, tenders, proposals, RFI, RFP, ITT, EOI, SSQ, & DDQs
- Preparation of supporting documents or supplying templates – e.g. policies, procedures & strategies
- Preparing responses, liaising with subject matter experts and stakeholders to gather and create content
- Proofing, reviewing, editing and feedback in line with the specification and eligibility criteria
- Managing the clarification process and communicating updates to stakeholders
- Ensuring bids are compliant and submitted, or handed over to, clients well in advance of deadlines
Project Management
With 10 years’ experience developing, managing and delivering European projects we can support all aspects of project management. This can range from providing interim or contract support within a project to assist with specific areas. For example:
- Monitoring & Evaluation within the context of Project and Programme Environments
- Embedding Cross-Cutting Themes (Equal Opportunities and Gender Mainstreaming, Sustainable Development and Tackling Poverty & Social Exclusion) into policy, actions and behaviours
- Helping clients maximise their use of relevant Labour Market Intelligence, influencing programme design to meet national, regional and local priorities
Research & Development
Our team possesses strong backgrounds in Research and Development.
We work with companies to develop bespoke briefs to meet defined objectives and growth targets. For example, recent work includes:
- Designing fundraising strategies & bid pipelines to unlock business growth
- Market research & segmentation
- Independent annual review & appraisals of CSR and grant-giving schemes
- National grant funding & tender mapping
- Feasibility studies, Grant & Project evaluations
- Targeted funding & contract searches (inc. reviews of 1000s of Trusts, Foundations, grant-giving bodies & e-tender portals)
- Co-designing business strategies & templates, e.g. social value policies & evaluation frameworks