A look at our list of past projects over the last seven years gives you an idea that we get involved in a diverse range of projects helping to develop environmental organisations and their staff, both at home and overseas.
We have worked together for over 20 years and have developed a philosophy of working closely with clients, developing their skills and knowledge and providing creative, yet practical solutions to any problems and issues that may be encountered.
Building on our recent experiences we are particularly interested in offering support that can help you with:
1. Independent evaluation with a focus on those projects that have received funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund
2. Fundraising support for the submission of funding applications
3. Facilitation and capacity building to provide support for external partnership or your organisation, staff and teams
We have worked together for over 20 years and have developed a philosophy of working closely with clients, developing their skills and knowledge and providing creative, yet practical solutions to any problems and issues that may be encountered.
Building on our recent experiences we are particularly interested in offering support that can help you with:
1. Independent evaluation with a focus on those projects that have received funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund
2. Fundraising support for the submission of funding applications
3. Facilitation and capacity building to provide support for external partnership or your organisation, staff and teams
1. Independent evaluation
We see evaluation as a way of upping everyone’s game – providing an opportunity for everyone to learn from the experience. We aim to forge real relationships with those involved in programme and project delivery, rather than making superficial judgements. One goal for us is to provide feedback focussing on “key learning” that can be taken forward by those involved in a scheme and by others about to undertake similar projects.
The total value of the 40 projects that we have evaluated amounts to a £79 million investment in heritage and landscape conservation. The Heritage Lottery Fund/National Lottery Heritage Fund has supported all of the projects…
We see evaluation as a way of upping everyone’s game – providing an opportunity for everyone to learn from the experience. We aim to forge real relationships with those involved in programme and project delivery, rather than making superficial judgements. One goal for us is to provide feedback focussing on “key learning” that can be taken forward by those involved in a scheme and by others about to undertake similar projects.
The total value of the 40 projects that we have evaluated amounts to a £79 million investment in heritage and landscape conservation. The Heritage Lottery Fund/National Lottery Heritage Fund has supported all of the projects…
Landscape Partnerships
We have worked with 25 Landscape Partnership Schemes on evaluation. This has involved activity such as coaching others to shape a final evaluation report, developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks to support a stage 2 application through to offering full evaluation support throughout scheme delivery producing mid term reviews and the end of scheme report.
With a focus on quality over quantity, we develop systems to enable output and outcome information to be captured at a Scheme level that can enable the production of supporting infographics and videos to tell the story of project impact, benefit and change.
We have worked with 25 Landscape Partnership Schemes on evaluation. This has involved activity such as coaching others to shape a final evaluation report, developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks to support a stage 2 application through to offering full evaluation support throughout scheme delivery producing mid term reviews and the end of scheme report.
With a focus on quality over quantity, we develop systems to enable output and outcome information to be captured at a Scheme level that can enable the production of supporting infographics and videos to tell the story of project impact, benefit and change.
| Fellfoot Forward | North Pennines AONB |
| Lough Erne Landscape Partnership | Royal Society for the Protection of Birds |
| Transforming the Trent Valley | Staffordshire Wildlife Trust |
| Coalfield Communities | East Ayrshire Council |
| Ryevitalise | North Yorkshire Moors National Park |
| Isle of Axholme and Hatfield Chase | North Lincolnshire Council |
| A Forgotten Landscape | South Gloucestershire Council |
| Garnock Connections | Royal Society for the Protection of Birds |
| Headlands to Headspace Landscape Partnership | Cumbria County Council |
| Pendle Hill Landscape Partnership | Lancashire County Council |
| River Tees Rediscovered | Groundwork North East and Cumbria |
| Coigach and Assynt Landscape Partnership | Scottish Wildlife Trust |
| Churnet Valley Landscape Partnership | Staffordshire Wildlife Trust |
| South Dorset Ridgeway | Dorset County Council |
| Up on the Down Landscape Partnership | Dover District Council |
| Saltscape Landscape Partnership | Groundwork Cheshire Lancashire and Merseyside |
| Land of Oak and Iron Landscape Partnership | Groundwork North East and Cumbria |
| Inner Forth Landscape Partnership | Royal Society for the Protection of Birds |
| Limestone Journeys | Cresswell Heritage Trust |
| Ochills Landscape Partnership | Clackmannanshire Council |
| The Forgotten Landscapes Blaenavon | Torfaen County Borough Council |
| Lincolnshire Coastal Grazing Marshes | East Lindsey District Council |
| Trent Vale Landscape Partnership Scheme | Canal and River Trust |
| Living North Pennines Landscape Partnership | North Pennines AONB |
| Habitats and Hillforts | Cheshire West and Chester Council |
I am e-mailing you to acknowledge use made of the Inner Forth Landscape Initiative Final Monitoring and Evaluation Report as source material for a submission under the Partnership Category of the Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning 2019. The document was an extremely helpful source of background information with facts and figures about projects and activities, and greatly assisted the preparation of the application.
Richard Callender,
Senior Planning Officer,
Stirling Council
Heritage Grants
We are working on or have completed the final evaluations’ for 15 Heritage Grant or Skills for the Future projects.
We are working on or have completed the final evaluations’ for 15 Heritage Grant or Skills for the Future projects.
| Act for Eden | Eden Rivers Trust |
| Connecting Communities | Scottish Wildlife Trust |
| Skills for the Future | Dry Stone Walling Association |
| Cold Blooded and Spineless | North Pennines AONB |
| Historic Environment Skills | Lincolnshire County Council |
| Earthworks | North Pennines AONB |
| Plugging the Gaps | North Pennines AONB |
| River Life Almond and Avon | Forth Rivers Trust |
| OREsome North Pennines | North Pennines AONB |
| Built Landscape Heritage and Education Training | Dry Stone Walling Association |
| LiDAR Landscapes | North Pennines AONB |
| Nectarworks | North Pennines AONB |
| Grantham Canal Heritage Initiative | Canal and River Trust |
| Woodlands for People and Wildlife | Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust |
| Youth Ranger Training Programme | Peak District National Park Authority |
Trent Vale Landscape Partnership Scheme ~ Final evaluation
Pendle Hill Landscape Partnership Scheme ~ Evaluation framework
2. Fundraising support
We have worked with eight Landscape Partnerships in a coaching and mentoring capacity helping to submit applications that have secured £28½ million for landscape scale conservation projects.
In March 2018 we provided support to the National Association for Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) to help with a Resilient Heritage bid that aims to improve the sustainability of the national charity and provide personal development opportunities to individual AONB team members.
We have worked with eight Landscape Partnerships in a coaching and mentoring capacity helping to submit applications that have secured £28½ million for landscape scale conservation projects.
In March 2018 we provided support to the National Association for Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) to help with a Resilient Heritage bid that aims to improve the sustainability of the national charity and provide personal development opportunities to individual AONB team members.
| River Rye Ryevitalise | North Yorkshire Moors National Park |
| South West Peak Landscape Partnership | Peak District National Park Authority |
| Sheffield Lakeland Landscape Partnership | Sheffield Wildlife Trust |
| Coigach and Assynt Landscape Partnership | Scottish Wildlife Trust |
| Pendle Hill LP Scheme | Forest of Bowland AONB |
| Tomintoul and Glenlivet LP Scheme | Cairngorms National Park Authority |
| This Exploited Land of Iron LP Scheme | North Yorkshire Moors National Park |
| Upper Nidderdale LP Scheme | Nidderdale AONB |
Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust ~ Woodlands for People and Wildlife
Tomintoul and Glenlivet Landscape Partnership ~ development workshop
3. Facilitation and capacity building
We started out in training and development working for the Peak District National Park Authority at Losehill Hall running the Countryside Staff Development Programme. CTP was created in 1998 as the result of a successful bid to the Countryside Commission and then the Countryside Agency to manage their programme of external sponsored training.
Working in an interactive, diverse and creative way has always been at the heart of our approach over the 20 years that we have worked together and our adding up shows that we have worked with over 2,500 people in the last 10 years alone. Recent examples include:
We started out in training and development working for the Peak District National Park Authority at Losehill Hall running the Countryside Staff Development Programme. CTP was created in 1998 as the result of a successful bid to the Countryside Commission and then the Countryside Agency to manage their programme of external sponsored training.
Working in an interactive, diverse and creative way has always been at the heart of our approach over the 20 years that we have worked together and our adding up shows that we have worked with over 2,500 people in the last 10 years alone. Recent examples include:
| Yorkshire Marine Nature Partnership | East Riding of Yorkshire Council |
| Hurst Farm Project Development | National Lottery Heritage Fund |
| Audience Development Training | Hertfordshire & Middlesex Wildlife Trust |
| Local Nature Partnership Development Workshops | North Yorkshire County Council |
| Nidderdale AONB Management Plan Review | Nidderdale AONB |
| Northern Upland Chain Capacity Building | Yorkshire Dales National Park |
| Lincolnshire Coast Partnership Development | Lincolnshire County Council |
| UK Landscape Partnership Seminars | Heritage Lottery Fund |
| Moors for the Future ~ Team Development | Peak District National Park Authority |
| Forest of Bowland AONB Business Plan | Lancashire County Council |
Scottish Natural Heritage ~ Sharing Best Practice Seminar
Watershed Landscapes ~ Landscape Partnership Scheme
Our availability
We like to establish long term working relationships with a number of different clients, carefully not overcommitting our time in order to meet agreed deadlines whilst retaining the freedom and flexibility to pursue other interests. Looking at our current and proposed commitments we are fortunate to be fully committed for the next few months until early Summer 2021 but we do have the capacity to take on other projects from June/July 2021 onwards, so do not hesitate to get in touch with us...
Updated January 2021
We like to establish long term working relationships with a number of different clients, carefully not overcommitting our time in order to meet agreed deadlines whilst retaining the freedom and flexibility to pursue other interests. Looking at our current and proposed commitments we are fortunate to be fully committed for the next few months until early Summer 2021 but we do have the capacity to take on other projects from June/July 2021 onwards, so do not hesitate to get in touch with us...
Updated January 2021