Services

Training

I offer training programmes tailored to your needs in the following areas:

• The Equality Act including the public sector equality duty and how voluntary organisations can use the Act to support their work
• Equality Impact Assessment for both public and voluntary organisations
• Capacity building including leadership, negotiation and mediation skills
• Personal Development training such as goal setting, visioning and leadership, work life balance and personal effectiveness
• Communications training including lobbying, campaigning, public speaking and presentation skills
• Gender impact assessment including gender budgeting
• Women’s Human Rights
• Media training from an introduction to dealing with the media to advice and consultancy on developing core media messages.

Policy research

I am an experienced researcher and writer. Examples of my recent reports can be found here. I specialise in reports that are not only well researched by accessible and focussed on the needs of the audience.

Facilitation

Activists from the 50:50 campaign develop a strategic plan

I have extensive experience of facilitating participatory events for groups of all sizes

ranging from a few people to over a hundred. So whatever you are organising; strategic planning, group development or consultative forums, I can help. I am skilled in encouraging the active engagement of all participants and am used to working with people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures