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John Cammack

 

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John Cammack
www.johncammack.net

51 Lime Walk
Oxford
OX3 7AB
01865 762393

John Cammack

Training in financial management
Training trainers
Financial communication
Consultancy in financial management
Building financial capacity
Mentoring
Coaching

Aga Khan Foundation
American University of Paris
Amnesty International
BOND
British Red Cross Society
ChildHope UK
CAMFED
Development Learning & Training at Kimmage (Dtalk)
European Commission
Homeless International
International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies
INTRAC
Oxfam GB
SCIAF
VSO

Profile

John Cammack works as an independent trainer, consultant and writer in NGO financial management.

He was head of international finance at Oxfam GB and senior lecturer in accounting and financial management at Oxford Brookes University. John has wide experience of working internationally with development and relief agencies. He sets financial management in the context of organisational management and international development, making it participatory and non-threatening, especially to those who find numbers difficult.

John works with organisations to design training to suit individual needs for NGO partners, staff and trustees. All courses are participatory and provide practical tools. They are supported by clear learning materials.

His consultancy work includes reviewing and building NGO financial management capacity and coaching individuals in financial management.

John's publications include: Building Capacity through Financial Management (Oxfam 2007), Basic Accounting for Small Groups, second edition (Oxfam, 2003) and Financial Management for Development (Intrac 2000).

John is a professionally qualified accountant and teacher. He has an MBA from Brunel University and an MSc in International Development Management from the Open University.

Vicky Cosstick

 

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Vicky Cosstick
www.changeaware.eu

43 Marius Road
London
SW17 7QU
020 8143 9694

Vicky Cosstick

Business Planning
Consultancy
Facilitation
Governance / Institutional Strengthening
Mentoring / Coaching
Evaluation
Organisational Learning / Development
Conflict Mediation and Resolution

CAFOD
BOND
CARE International UK
SightSavers Int'l
Computer Aid Int'l
Kingston University
Int'l Childcare Trust
Cardinal Hume Centre
Nat Autistic Society
Amnesty Int'l Sec't
Responding to Conflict
Child-to-child
Ethical Property Foundation
UNHCR London
WaterAid


 

 

Profile

I have been a successful independent consultant working primarily in the NGO sector for almost three years. Since September 2005 I have:

  • specialised in working with individuals, teams and organisations engaged in all aspects of learning and change.
  • facilitated at board and senior management levels as well as with teams in small, medium and large organisations, and in all areas of NGO activity around team formation, conflict resolution and strategic thinking and planning.
  • carried out major narrative learning reviews of DFID-funded overseas projects as well as designing and facilitating UK team reviews of PPA-funded work.
  • mentored or coached individuals and managers, including at executive level, and established mentoring and 'coaching skills for managers' programmes.
  • presented a highly successful 2-day 'Facilitation Skills for NGOs' course several times for BOND and in-house for large NGOs.
  • worked with many international and multi-cultural groups of all kinds.
  • supported HR function with workshops on 360 degree appraisal; processes around organisational restructuring; staff surveys and alternative responses to conflict in organisations.

I am committed to my own ongoing development and have an MSc in Change Agent Skills from University of Surrey (2001), following 15 years experience as facilitator and consultant in another sector; I am an accredited Workplace Mediator (OCN 2007) and will this year complete a postgraduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution.

 


Sue Fidler

 

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Sue Fidler
www.suefidler.com

15 Birkbeck Hill
London
SE21 8JS
020 8766 0195

Consultancy
e Campaigning
e Communications
e Fundraising
e Marketing
Database Consultancy
ICT Consultancy
Mentoring / Coaching
Website Creation / Management

Amnesty International UK
AMREF
Anti Slavery International
BOND
Fairtrade Foundation
Greenpeace UK
IFAW
Practical Action
Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund
Resource Alliance
Send a Cow
Stop Climate Chaos
WaterAid
WDM
WWF UK

Profile

Sue Fidler is an independent charity consultant on the purchase, development and implementation of ICT, databases and the internet. Combining practical understanding of fundraising, communications, project management and wider charity issues, with 'big picture' business and wide ranging IT knowledge, Sue is working to improve charities use and understanding of the opportunities that ICT offers the sector.

Recent projects include the launch of "The World Can't Wait" campaign website, an e-campaign with the Stop Climate Chaos, the WSPA "Animals Matter" campaign; web tender and development projects with Resource Alliance, RIGT and Somerset House Trust; online fundraising projects with Amnesty International UK and Practical Action; IT and Database development with Greenpeace UK, Send a Cow, Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund and many more.

For 2 1/2 years Sue was Director of Communications and Solutions at Charity Technology Trust. At CTT she was responsible for e-communications, web development, delivery of web functionality and ICT consultancy. Sue spent seven years as IT, Database and Internet Manager at WaterAid. She has also worked as an 'all in one' fundraiser for the RSPCA at branch level, running the successful £2m Paw Prints Appeal.

Focus Management Consultancy

 

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Penelope Daly
focusmc@eim.ae www.focusmc.org

PO Box 322
Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates
+971 2 6654033

17 Sutherland Street
London
SW1V 4JU
020 7828 2317

Business English (EFL)
Communications
Consultancy
Course Learning Materials & Design
Cross-Cultural Management
Facilitation
Mentoring / Coaching
Monitoring & Evaluation
Organisational Learning / Development
Psychometric Testing
Training
Training of Trainers

Abu Dhabi National Bank ADNOC Group of Companies
ALDAR
BP
EC Mpongwe Project, Zambia
TANMIA
Technip
Westminster VCW VolEmploy Project

Profile

Focus provides a range of development consultancy, assessment, facilitated workshops and courses.

Our consultants specialise in a narrow field of expertise to ensure high quality and results. We all combine practical business knowledge with international and cross-cultural experience.

Workshops are designed specifically for each client, after in-depth analysis of needs and goals. Our courses are imaginative, practical and personalised. We are known for our ability to engage and energise participants.


Christine Forrester

 

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Christine Forrester

17 Victoria Road
Kington
Herefordshire
HR5 3BX
01544 230050

Accountability / Transparency
Consultancy
Course learning materials & design
Design & Administration of grant-making processes
Facilitation
Governance / Institutional Strengthening
Mentoring / Coaching
Monitoring & Evaluation
Organisational Learning & Development
Project & Programme design & development
Training
Training of Trainers

AED (Croatia)
British Council
Charities Aid Foundation (UK)
Community Foundation Network (UK)
Evaluation Trust (UK)
ETP/Ekopolis (Slovakia)
HealthProm
Palestine Welfare Association

Profile

Freelance organisational development and evaluation consultant since 1993, following extensive experience in senior management in the UK voluntary sector. I use participative methodologies in all of my work. Key skills are:

  • Designing and delivering evaluations

  • Project design and implementation

  • Governance and organisational development

  • Training and facilitation

  • Civil society and community development processes

Current and recent international work in: Ukraine, Lebanon, Indonesia, Slovakia, Croatia, Turkey.

 

Greta Jensen

 

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Greta Jensen

Star House
Pleases Passage
High Street
Totnes
Devon
TQ9 5QN
01803 865954

Greta Jensen






 Greta Jensen's CV

Accountability / Transparency
Consultancy
Course learning materials & design
Development Education
Environment / Climate Change
Facilitation
Mentoring / Coaching
Monitoring & Evaluation
Organisational Learning / Development
Training
Training of Trainers

Action for Southern Africa
Auroville International UK
BOND
British Red Cross
Camfed
Development Education Association (DEA)
Development Education in Europe Project (DEEP)
European Commission
Friends of the Earth
Help the Aged
Pestalozzi International Development Education Centre
Plan Germany, Pakistan, West Africa & UK
World Vision UK
WWF UK
Y-Care International

Profile

I offer training and consultancy services to international development and development education organisations and have an established track record. For over 20 years I have provided technical and management expertise to INGOs and together with them have worked with southern communities to develop education, health and environmental projects. Since 1996 I have combined this with advising on, and designing, development education initiatives in Europe and Asia . I provide training, mentoring and coaching for staff of NGOs developing and managing projects and write applications to major funders.

From parallel work as a psychotherapist with individuals and groups I bring an experiential dimension to capacity building with southern partners and the community groups they serve. I have developed an innovative approach to Logical Framework Analysis, which facilitates diverse stakeholders in a joint participatory process that encourages individual and group creativity and ensures transparency, accountability and flexibility throughout the project life-cycle.

Originally trained in industrial design, architecture and planning, I brought my technical and management skills to the sector as co-founder of a small UK INGO, which I directed for 12 years. From this I built extensive experience of what does and doesn't work in community development initiatives involving environmental regeneration and appropriate technology.


Midas Charity Appeals Service

 

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Martin Shaw
www.midasappeals.org.uk

64 The Grove
Edgware
Middlesex
HA8 9QB
020 3271 0036

Consultancy
Fundraising
Mentoring / Coaching
Monitoring & Evaluation
Training

BOND
Camfed
Everychild
Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme
Opportunity International
Orbis UK
Progressio
TB Alert
Tourism Concern
War on Want
World Development Movement

Profile

Midas Charity Appeals Service offers small and medium charities a one-stop shop for all their strategic, grant-seeking, corporate partnerships, mentoring and fundraising training needs. We pride ourselves in delivering high quality, imaginative and hands-on fundraising services to organisations in need of advice and practical help with raising funds and improving fundraising staff skills. A team of 10 consultants, with a wide range of skills and experience, raise funds for projects, in the UK and in developing countries, from UK and European statutory funders, grant-making trusts and foundations as well as wealthy donors and private sector companies. Four colleagues in particular have experience and skills relevant to BOND members:

Ian Kerr, Midas's founder has worked in development for over 30 years after starting ActionAid. Past clients have included BOND members such as Orbis UK, Tourism Concern, Opportunity International, TB Alert, Africa Now, Progressio and War on Want. He has extensive experience in major donor, trust and statutory fundraising and is leading the development of mentoring within Midas.

Lesley Hynes is an expert in major donor and trust and foundation fundraising. She specialises in using networking as part of the fundraising process and regularly raises £1 million each year from these sources. She is also a fundraising mentor. At the time of writing, she is undergoing fundraising work for BOND itself, and has worked or is working for the following BOND members: Camfed; Everychild; HDRA; the Latin American Mining Monitoring Project and the World Development Movement.

Within Midas, Fabienne Poulet's main area of expertise is statutory funding - namely grants from the UK government and international lottery, the European Commission and occasionally other European governments - as well as wide-ranging knowledge of grant-making trusts and companies with an interest in international development and the environment. Fabienne will bring to your applications and bids great attention to detail, insight into the way statutory donors think and advanced writing skills, and can also deliver strategic and fundraising planning, project development and evaluation.

Philip Spender has fundraised from the European Commission, charitable trusts, the lottery and European sources for children's health and education in Bangladesh, for counteracting forced marriages, for Roma communities in South East Europe, for development in Uganda and for freedom of expression worldwide. He has undertaken work for BOND member, Orbis UK.

Consultants are charged out at a daily rate of £395 + VAT. For further information please go to www.midasappeals.org.uk or contact Martin Shaw, 020 3271 0036.


 

Red Kite Partners

 

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Chris Mowles

60 St James Street
Oxford
OX4 1EU
01865 728781

Chris Mowles CV (pdf, 150KB)

Business Planning
Consultancy
Governance / Institutional Strengthening
Interim Management
Mentoring / Coaching
Organisational Learning / Development

ActionAid
British Council
CARE
Child Rights Information Network
ChildHope UK
CIIR / Progressio
DFID
Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Oxfam GB
People in Aid
Practical Action
Save the Children UK
Terre des Hommes Schweiz
WaterAid
World Council of Churches

Profile

Chris Mowles is an experienced organisational consultant and evaluator with a ten year track record of consultancies. More recently, while completing his PhD, he has focused on the practice of management and strategy in INGOs. As a consequence he has mentored CEOs and senior managers, and has run learning sets which reflect on practice. He has become interested in supporting staff in struggling organisations or programmes to move them on; for example, he recently completed a term as interim director for a children's charity, where his task was to steady working relationships, write a new strategy with trustees and staff and recruit a replacement.

Chris draws on analogies from the complexity sciences and theories of emergence in his work, so he is particularly interested in open-ended, messy problems or situations where practice and organisational conversations have become stuck or repetitive. The difference this makes is that he focuses with staff on the situation that they find themselves in and what concerns them, rather than importing an idealised model of 'best practice'.

He has begun to publish work in development journals on the theory and practice of management and strategy, as well as presenting papers at conferences. Chris has also worked with the private and public sectors and co-founded a start-up marketing business.

 

Sayer Vincent

 

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Kate Sayer
svinfo@sayervincent.co.uk www.sayervincent.co.uk

8 Angel Gate
City Road
London
EC1V 2SJ
020 7841 6360

Accountability / Transparency
Business Planning
Consultancy
Financial Management
Governance / Institutional Strengthening
Information Management
Information Systems / IT
Interim Management
Mentoring / Coaching
Organisational Learning / Development Training

Action on Disability & Development (ADD)
AfghanAid
Amnesty International
Anti-Slavery International
Concern Universal
HelpAge International
Medecins Sans Frontieres
Minority Rights Group
Motivation
Oxfam GB
Save the Children
Send a Cow
SightSavers International
UNICEF UK
War on Want

Profile

Sayer Vincent is a leading provider of consultancy to the charity sector, covering strategy, specialist charity IT needs, business planning, restructuring, risk and management. Working with a diverse portfolio of charities, including over twenty specialising in overseas development, we deliver rapid insights into your issues and help to find effective solutions to them.

As charity specialists, Sayer Vincent works with a range of charities providing internal audit services. Our experienced team of charity auditors work flexibly to provide organisations with valuable insights to help you to change the way you do things. We offer a blend of systems knowledge with an understanding of governance and broader management issues. Our team includes IT professionals who work with auditors to provide an all-round service.

We also work with organisations to develop strategic responses to the challenges charities face. Once we have gained a full understanding of the business needs of the organisation, we then build on this to ensure that information systems and IT solutions are well suited to the culture and operations of the organisation.

Stephen Young

 

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Stephen Young
www.platform1design.com

Platform 1 Design
The Marina
Bradford on Avon
BA15 1UD
Tel: 01225 869333

stephen-young

Advocacy / Campaigning
Course learning materials & design
Marketing
Media / Communications
Website Creation / Management
Editing
Exhibition design
Photography and illustration

ADD
Advantage Africa
African Initiatives
Allied Health Professionals Federation
CAFOD
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Dorothy House Hospice Care
Housing Assocations' Charitable Trust
NHS condition management programme
Nutrition International
Oxfam GB
Royal College of Anaesthetists
UNICEF
VSO
WFP

Profile

Platform 1 Design was founded by Stephen Young and Rod Ellis after Stephen's return from 12 years of working for VSO, first as a health & training materials designer and latterly as a country director.

We believe that clear, accessible information is of prime importance in changing people's opportunities and releasing people's potential worldwide. We are committed to putting our enthusiasms and energies towards achieving this result.

We also believe that the journey itself, the process by which the communication is achieved, offers tremendous opportunity for making positive choices.

Our key strategies include:

  • Putting users first when creating design solutions, with particular emphasis on accessibility issues.

  • Encouraging all clients to consider environmental choices, for instance of materials, production and distribution methods.

  • Using electronic media wherever possible, to send visuals to clients and artwork to press, to avoid more CDs in landfill sites.

We can provide a very broad range of communications services from the development of communication strategies to the details of design and construction in individual publications and websites.

We can provide database-driven websites where the client manages their own content and solutions for online selling and fundraising.

One World Trust

 

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Michael Hammer
www.oneworldtrust.org

3 Whitehall Court
London
SW1A 2EL
0207 766 3471

Accountability / Transparency
Advocacy / Campaigning
Consultancy
Facilitation
Governance / Institutional Strengthening
Training
Monitoring & Evaluation
Organisational Learning / Development
Policy research

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Open Society Institute (OSI)
International Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers(ICANN)
Christian Aid
Child Helpline International (CHI)
British Overseas NGOs for Development (BOND)
World Federalist Movement (WFM)

Profile

The One World Trust is a UK registered charity founded in 1951. We conduct independent cross-sectoral research and related advocacy in the field of accountability of global institutions, parliamentary processes, peace and security and sustainable development. Using an action-research approach we focus on opportunities for manageable, positive change in organisations, policy and decision-making processes at global, national and organisational levels.

Drawing on our ongoing innovative research work we provide tailor made consultancy services for organisations who wish to:

  • Review, assess or audit organisational accountability and governance systems;

  • Strengthen knowledge resources and comparative understanding of existing policy and practice;

  • Develop specific solutions including for policies, guidelines, and plans for enhancing their organisational accountability and governance systems;

  • Train and build the capacity of staff, affiliates and other collaborators on issues of accountability policies, mechanisms and practice;

  • Research policy processes or substantive questions in the fields of global accountability, parliamentary affairs, peace and security and sustainable development for purpose of internal review, policy development or external publications;

  • Create and facilitate objective and constructive spaces for dialogue with internal and external stakeholders to explore and promote better policy and good practice in our domains of expertise.

Miles Litvinoff

 

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Miles Litvinoff
Miles Litvinoff CV (pdf, 60KB)

PO Box 61441
London
NW10 3XW
020 8965 9682

Miles Litvinoff

Accountability / Transparency
Advocacy / Campaigning
Course learning materials & design
Development Education
Distance Learning
Environment / Climate Change
Facilitation
Fundraising
Governance / Institutional Strengthening
Interim Management
Media / Communications
Mentoring / Coaching
Monitoring & Evaluation
Organisational Learning / Development
Writing, editing and publishing - print and online

Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility
Amnesty International
OneWorld International
Minority Rights Group International
The Open University
Earthscan Publications

Profile

Miles Litvinoff is a consultant and writer-editor specialising in NGO management, policy and advocacy. With 20 years' experience in human rights, sustainable development and corporate responsibility, he offers expertise in research, writing, editing and publishing; policy, advocacy and campaigning; organisational development; strategic planning; budgeting and fundraising; programme and people management.

Miles is currently working with Amnesty International's International Secretariat as consultant writer for the 2008 Amnesty International Report.

He has been consultant to the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility since 2005. He has managed the development and launch of a new three-year work programme and built partnerships with faith-based NGOs and dialogues with institutional shareholders and companies.

His most recent book is 50 Reasons to Buy Fair Trade (2007), co-authored with John Madeley.

Miles was General Manager/Company Secretary at OneWorld International Foundation from 2001 to 2004.

Previously as Head of Programmes at Minority Rights Group International, he led the successful development of programmes and projects in partnership with in-country NGOs in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America, and undertook work for the Council of Europe and the European Commission.

In the 1990s he taught Environment Studies with the Open University.

aAXIOMe Consulting

 

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Golam Morshed
www.aaxiome.org

15 Watson Avenue
Sutton, Surrey
SM3 9RE
0207 193 4545
0208 641 2926

Golam Morshed

Finance Director Services (interim, part-time or virtual)

ChristianAid
VSO
Trocaire
Marie Stopes International
FARM - Africa
Save the Children
OneWorld International Foundation
Healthlink Worldwide
Action on Disability and Development
Futurebuilders-England
Afghanaid
ACORD
London Voluntray Service Council
Oxfam
Build Africa

Profile

We help NGOs to overcome their financial management struggles both in good times and times of crisis. Our "finance director" service is flexible to suit your circumstances, be they interim, part-time or on a virtual basis.

Having seen some of the extra difficulties faced by organisations with limited financial resources, we have also designed a "NGO total support service" where you can leave all your accounting work with us.

Golam Morshed's involvement with NGOs has spanned three continents: starting in Asia, spending time in Africa and finally tasting head office environment in the UK. He brings an insight from both sides of the fence: Treasurer vs. Finance Director, expatriate vs. local and grassroots vs. international. His MBA, on top of the FCMA accountancy qualification (FCMA), coupled with diverse experience is an assurance that he is an accountant who thinks outside the box.

Why don't you ring us number 0798 465 7612, 0207 193 4545 or contact us via email to find out how we can add value to your organisation.

Oxford HR Consultants

 

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Oxford HR Consultants
www.oxfordhr.co.uk

69 Observatory Street,
Oxford
OX2 6EP
+44 (0)1865 510980

Oxford HR Consultants

International Executive Search and Selection Consultancy
Facilitation
Interim Management
Training
Marketing
Mentoring / Coaching
Organisational Learning / Development
Training of Trainers
HR Support
International recruitment

Marie Stopes International,
Hope and Homes for Children,
Digital Links International,
Fairtrade Labelling Organisations International
A Glimmer of Hope Foundation, Austin, USA
International Development Enterprises, USA
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
UNICEF UK,

Profile

Oxford HR is an Executive Search, Selection and Leadership Development consultancy serving the international aid and social enterprise sectors worldwide.

We have a long track record of recruiting experienced professionals for senior and specialist international management positions located all over the globe. Since 2006 we have been expanding our capacity to support the sectors we serve by offering consultancy on HR management, organisational change and leadership and management development.