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Development Support
Our strategic and organisational support can help you raise your game
Strategic support
Is your organisation experiencing a period of dizzying change, or are things stuck in a rut? Whether you need to develop a new strategic vision, create a comprehensive business plan or update your core objectives, we can help.
We provide strategic support across a range of services:
- Updating charitable objectives
- Reviewing your vision, mission, aims and values
- Setting organisational goals
- Business planning
- Developing entrepreneurial spin-offs
- Developing your management committee/board or membership
- Develop a Theory of Change
- Defining and sharing key messages and/or developing communication plans
This list is not definitive, so please get in touch to discuss any strategic support needs you have.
Organisational development
Does your organisation need to raise its game to meet best practice? A5cend can help you develop and institute the structures and systems it needs to improve.
Our support comes in a variety of forms and we offer a tailored approach based on your individual needs. For example, we can:
- Carry out an organisational “health check” to review your policies and advise you on what you need to have in place to deliver best practice and meet state and industry guidelines
- Undertake a more formal organisational strength review to map areas for development and provide recommendations for improvement, as well as help you put these into practice
- Carry out a review of your governance arrangements
- Help review, update or devise policies and procedures, job descriptions or operational plans
- Program and set up a tailored Saleforce database for your charity
- Assist you in setting up consistent reporting procedures and developing systems for forward financial planning
- Help with budgeting and streamlining
- Provide advice and support to improve your internal communications and/or develop an external marketing and communications campaign
On occasion, our office team can also provide help with specific tasks, such as helping you plan and upload a database, input financial records or manage and update your filing systems. In short, we will tailor our services to suit your requirements.
What our clients say about us
Please contact us to discuss your specific needs in more detail.
Why a business plan?
A business plan can have a range of benefits for your organisation or even a specific program area. It can:
- Aid your team (staff, volunteers and trustees) to agree and realise a common goal.
- Support you to attract funding for your plans
- Help communicate your plans with stakeholders and the community
- Strengthen your organisational management with concrete performance indicators to review your performance against
- Provide clarity and leadership even during times of staff changes
- Demonstrate you are a quality organisation.
Need help with setting up a new organisation?
If you are a new organisation and need some help getting off the ground, or if you have an idea for a new organisation that you would like to realise, we can help.
Our team can help you put in place all the necessary policies, register with Companies House, develop a clear vision and mission, put in place a clear plan for the future and develop a realistic fundraising strategy.
Training and Mentoring
Would you like to develop your organisations’ in-house skills? Do you just need a little bit of extra guidance or a ‘critical friend’ to bounce ideas off?
We provide training on a range of topics, including evaluation, fundraising and governance. We also offer one-to-one or organisation-wide mentoring. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
But don’t take our word for it – please take a look at our case studies: