VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR CONSULTANCY AND TRAINING
DESCRIPTION OF OUR CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Navigate Change Consulting provide management consultancy and training services with a strong focus on the voluntary and community sectors. We engage consultants that have a track record of successful project delivery in areas such as such as health, social exclusion, poverty, crisis accommodation, homelessness, addiction services, crime and those at risk of becoming involved in crime, services to offenders and families of offenders, diversionary activities and services to children and families.
Our work with the voluntary and community sector is diverse and includes:
- Building organisational capacity on key skills such as tender writing, business planning and project and programme management
- Development and defining of programme outputs and outcomes (including effective measurement)
- Evaluation of project and programme delivery
- Organisational analysis including defining appropriate staffing
DESCRIPTION OF OUR TRAINING SERVICES
The training services offered by Navigate Change Consulting to the Voluntary and Community include design and delivery of bespoke training to meet business need. Examples of programmes to provided include:
- Writing Winning Tenders;
- Marketing for the Voluntary and Community Sector;
- Introduction to Project and Programme Management;
- Business Planning.
Writing Winning Tenders
We have extensive experience in supporting the voluntary and community sector on the development of strong tender documents - building competence and confidence in bid writing. This has included providing tailored training directly to individual organisations or through umbrella groups such as CO3. Our work on supporting delivery of strong tender documents is designed around individual needs and therefore may involve: training, mentoring, coaching and/ or performing a more direct role on the design and delivery of specific tender documents.
Our approach aims to develop capability within each client organisation so that the fundmental question of - how do I write a tender? - is continually answered with a competitive tender document.
Please see the specific section of our website on Tender Writing for more information. This includes a programme outline for our Writing Winning Tenders programme - tailored to the needs of the Voluntary and Community, Charity and Social Economy Sectors.
| “It was a practical-focused workshop appropriately pitched to the learning needs of audience. I picked up real advice and skills which I will definitely use when I next write a tender application.” Brenda Lappin, The Bytes Project |
| “The programme took us through the entire tendering process and was in-depth in nature. Very worthwhile.” Aine McCabe, Blackie River Community Group |
