What we do
Four specialist services
Our Services
Project Management
Grant-funded capital projects, expertly managed from start to finish
We lead your project from brief to handover — acting as your expert representative at every stage. Managing the consultant team, controlling the programme, keeping funders informed, and making sure nothing falls through the gaps. You stay focused on your organisation, we handle the rest.
01
Understanding Your Objectives
We start by listening. Before anything else, we establish what success looks like for you — your priorities, your constraints, your stakeholders. Early engagement ensures the brief is realistic and aligned with your vision from the very start.
02
Strategy and Feasibility
We translate your vision into a clear, deliverable plan. Early feasibility and funding reviews are undertaken before significant resource is committed — so there are no nasty surprises down the line.
03
Funding and Approvals
We have extensive experience with NLHF and ACE capital programmes — preparing applications, liaising with funders, and keeping projects aligned with funding conditions throughout delivery.
04
Delivery
We coordinate your consultant and contractor teams, manage information flow, and keep you fully informed at every stage. Problems get caught early and resolved quickly — before they become costly.
05
Completion
We oversee commissioning, handover and close-out — making sure every contractual, funding and client requirement is met, fully documented, and signed off before we're done.
Planning and Management Partner
Our Services
Contract
Administration
Taking the complexity out of grant-funded capital projects
We can act as your Contract Administrator or Employer's Agent, your representative under the contract, protecting your interests from procurement through to final account.
02
Contract Setup
All documentation correctly executed. Insurances, bonds and warranties checked. Funding obligations confirmed.
03
Managing the Works
We administer the contract, issue instructions and certificates, inspect progress, and keep communications between client, consultants and contractor clear and well-documented.
04
Change and Quality Control
Variations assessed rigorously. Extensions of time managed fairly. Quality of workmanship monitored throughout, with particular care around historic fabric.
05
Handover and Close-Out
Practical completion, final account, contract close-out. Everything concluded properly, documented clearly, and signed off with confidence.
Our Services
Cost Management
We keep your project on budget, from first estimate to final account.
No surprises. No finger-pointing. Just clear, honest cost management at every stage.
01
Cost Planning
Realistic, benchmarked cost plans aligned with your funding strategy — giving your board and funders a sound basis for decisions from the outset.
02
Procurement
Tender management that gets you competitive, qualified contractors and a clear, agreed contract sum — reducing risk before work starts on site.
03
Monitoring and Reporting
Regular cost reports throughout the build. You always know exactly where you stand — clear and auditable for trustees, funders or local authorities.
04
Change Control and Close-Out
Variations assessed promptly and transparently. You approve before anything changes the budget. At completion, we manage the final account to conclusion; fair, fully justified, and documented to the standard funders and clients expect.
Our Services
Funding Support
Getting the funding right and at the right time is often the difference between a project happening or not. We know how funders think because we've worked alongside them for decades. We've written successful bids for our clients; we've also assessed bids on behalf of the sector's major capital funders
01
NLHF and ACE
We've guided numerous successful bids. We know what funders want to see, what trips applications up, and how to structure a project to maximise your chances.
02
Application Support
Business plans, activity plans, cost plans, monitoring frameworks. We help you build a compelling, compliant case.
03
Ongoing Compliance
Securing the grant is only the start. We keep your project aligned with funder conditions throughout delivery, so you're never at risk of clawback.
04
Other Funding Streams
Levelling Up, local authority grants, charitable trusts. We help identify and pursue the right mix for your project.
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Bid Writing Services
100% success rate across 35+ NLHF and Arts Council capital funding bids. We know what funders want to see, and how to build a case that wins.