Tools & Resources

Peer and community research including:

• Courses to train peers and design research tools and approaches for individual projects
• Support and ongoing management in the field
• Administration of payment at Real Living Wage equivalent rates
• Supporting peer researchers to move into social research, participatory grant-making or other related career opportunities.
• Designing programme and institution-wide models to ensure lived experience voice is embedded in your practice

And through our partnership with the Social Value Engine offer low-cost alternatives for helping smaller organisations demonstrate their impact.

Data insight and legacy tools:

• We can help you to continue to use and visualise their data using our interactive dashboards
• We create accessible, custom-made and branded visual dashboards, alongside data collection, analysis and measurement tools
• With training from our team and a managed handover, we create the capacity and skills in your team to continue to collect and analyse data once we have gone avoiding ongoing costs and commitments.

Organisational support and strategy development:

• Help you understand stakeholder awareness and trust in your organisation and understand how to improve
• Review how successful your strategy has been, and develop new priorities, roadmaps, and action plans to reach your long-term goals
• Horizon scanning for new policy, funding and partnership opportunities

Training:

We provide a range of one, or half-day training sessions tailored to the needs of your organisation. These are used as additional support when applying for grants as part of the exit from a grant, or just to help upskill organisations. Areas we cover include:

• How to do a Theory of Change
• Evaluation framework development
• Communicating your impact
• Designing your services
• Mapping your services
• How to cost your services
• Developing your pitch
• Embedding trauma-informed approaches in your organisation
• Preparing for due diligence checks

Interim Plus:

We can provide interim support to help you manage short-term capacity needs or to cover for staff absence. Using our networks of trusted advisors, experts and assessors, alongside additional capacity from our core team, you get much more for your money per day than using an agency.

Our back-office support includes:

• Research capacity to support desk reviews, benchmarking and consultation
• Facilitation and workshop support
• Grant design, application management and assessment
• Discrete project management and support
• Bid writing and business development strategies