Pelican Contracts
Enterprising solutions to regeneration
Enterprise Support
Business Link South Yorkshire
Women Like Me
This project delivered confidence building and learning activities to women at the pre start up stage of business. Participants identified common issues and investigated solutions together, by meeting with trainers and women in business.
Support was delivered in small groups across South Yorkshire, in Barnsley; Doncaster; Rotherham and Sheffield. Women were provided with intensive support in a facilitated environment, participating in a programme of activities that were shaped to respond to their collective needs.
Yorkshire Culture
Modelling Sustainability in the Cultural Sector
Intensive enterprise support and development to twenty four cultural sector organisations to assist them to trade and generate profits to aid sustainability and lead to economic independence. Organisations supported ranged from small community focussed organisations to medium sized creative industries to large museums.
A fifteen strong team of Pelican Consultants brought a wide range of skills and expertise to the project, delivering support on a range of issues covering: governance, enterprise ideas generation, feasibility studies, business planning, assembling finance packages, legal modelling, marketing, routes to market, environmental policies, sponsorship packages, business expansion planning, re-branding, staffing and HR issues.
Governance Works Ltd
Amanda and Ruth have undertaken training delivered by Governance works to become approved trainers to use the Governance Works/Small Business Service Governance toolkit. The toolkit is focussed on working with Voluntary and Community sector board members and delivering facilitated sessions around: What is governance; The roles and responsibilities of governance; Understanding legal structures and policies and procedures for good governance.
Evaluation
Social Enterprise Action in South Yorkshire (SEASY)
Evaluation of the SEASY Development Partnership (DP)
A final comprehensive evaluation of the activities delivered by SEASY DP - one of a number of DPs awarded a European Social Fund (ESF) grant through the European Union's EQUAL Programme (2000-2007).
The evaluation assessed the DP's performance against objectives and in terms of contributing to the EQUAL Programme's cross cutting themes of: innovation, trans-nationality, partnership, empowerment, equal opportunities and mainstreaming.
Highlighting mainstreaming potential and capturing beneficiary (individual and organisational) experiences, the report provided constructive criticism, identified difficulties in the process and highlighted notable successes and recommendations.
Key Fund South Yorkshire
A full customer evaluation of the Key Fund's products and services
A critical evaluation from the perspectives of the Key Fund's customers, stakeholders and partners, the research focused on gathering customer opinions on the service provided by Key Fund, measuring satisfaction levels and analysing responses to identify any patterns of opinion amongst certain groups.
The final report identified key strengths and weaknesses in service provision and in areas for improvement and provided benchmark data for any future research. This work informed the business planning process: to provide a steer for the future direction of service and business development and to provide guidance for future marketing and communication.
Wybourn and Sky Edge Action Group
Youth Research Project
Working with young people to enable them to develop and design their own research framework to capture the key issues affecting young people in their local community.
Pelican worked with fifteen young people aged 11-18 and facilitated a training process to enable them to identify the aim of the research, what methods to use, how to collate and report on the findings and present the results. The young people undertook 200 face-to-face interviews, and three focus groups within local schools. Results were presented at a youth conference organised by the group.
Business Liverpool, Liverpool City Council
Evaluation of three Enterprise Facilitation projects in Liverpool
'Enterprise Facilitation' is a particular trade marked approach to enterprise, developed since the mid 1980's by Ernesto Sirolli. It provides a "bottom up" approach which aims to ignite the enterprise passion within communities and facilitates mechanisms to help individuals within those communities to contribute to the growth of their local economy. Pelican's evaluation focused on three research areas: impact on individuals, strategic alliances and community impact.
Northumberland Strategic Partnership (NSP)
Review of Business Support and Social Enterprise in Northumberland
The review involved parallel tasks to assess the impact of NSP's investment into Business Link for Northumberland and Social Enterprise Northumberland project activity over the period 2002-05. This work was undertaken in partnership with SWQ Ltd.
Finance & Fundraising
Doncaster Local Enterprise Growth Initiative (LEGI)
Specialist consultancy to support the Doncaster LEGI team to maximise the use of LEGI monies to lever in additional grant/contract and private sector income to introduce appropriate and relevant enterprise opportunities for the residents of Doncaster.
Jake's Sensory World Ltd
Business planning and sourcing finance
To establish a sensory play area for disabled children and adults, in the Merseyside area, Pelican supported the business planning process, identified potential sources of funding and developed funding proposals, for this new social enterprise.
Our approach ensured that the client maintained ownership of the business planning process and that the developing strategy was driven by the client.
Research & Strategy Development
Doncaster LEGI
In depth research captured best practice examples in enterprise support for ex offenders, lone parents and those claiming incapacity benefits, to begin to build an evidence base for what works and why.
This research informed the development of three models which could form the basis of tender specifications. The report therefore presented recommendations on how Success Doncaster's LEGI Programme can best deploy resources to provide enterprise support and development services for these three client groups.
Finance Hub
Get ready for that Local Authority contract
Created as part of the government's ChangeUp programme and funded by Capacitybuilders to increase capacity in the third sector, the Finance Hub is one of six National Hubs offering support and information.
In partnership with Sheffield Community Enterprise Development Unit (SCEDU), this research investigated and captured the critical success factors underpinning third sector organisations' ability and success in winning public sector contracts.
The collection and analysis of the experiences of organisations currently involved in public sector contracting led to the production of a range of materials and a set of benchmarks for good practice in procurement.
The Office of the Third Sector within the Cabinet Office
Researching access to finance for third sector organisations
In partnership with SQW Ltd, this research explored the demand for and take up of, access to finance for third sector organisations nationally, in particular exploring the barriers to finance.
Research results led to a recommendations regarding easing the transition to loans and other forms of finance, for example using patient capital models and providing on going support (non financial) for those taking up finance.
