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SERVING AS A 'CATALYST FOR CHANGE'

Our Services for

Community Organisations

and Community Groups

As Change Catalysts, we empower and enable community organisations and groups to understand better what is important to people in their community, find the best solutions to achieve their goals and then put their own solutions in to practice. We champion innovative approaches to partnership working with delivery agencies and others in the public and private sector to help develop stronger, more vibrant, healthier and sustainable communities.

 

We offer many years’ experience of leading and managing community-based projects and programmes in collaboration with community organisations and key public agencies to deliver physical and economic renewal initiatives, build capacity within community organisations to tackle social exclusion, deprivation, worklessness and issues of health, crime and drugs. An emerging area of work is in supporting innovation in the design, funding and delivery of health and social care services.

Our Support for Community Organisations and Groups

 

We provide a range of services and support to help community organisations and groups:

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  • Find out what is important to people in their community;

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  • Take positive action to find the best solution to things that matter to them;

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  • Find the funding to make it happen;

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  • Build relationships and a collaborative approach with key decision makers in the public and private sector;

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  • Put their own solutions in to practice.

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We champion innovative approaches to partnership working, to help develop stronger, more vibrant, healthier and sustainable communities. This includes enabling and facilitating cooperation and collaboration between local communities, delivery agencies, public sector organisations, delivery agencies and the private sector.

 

Our Experience

 

We offer many years experience supporting local communities, community organisations and community groups. This includes leading and managing community-based rural and urban regeneration programmes in partnership with community organisations and a consortium of key public agencies, including:

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  • Physical and economic renewal initiatives, involving environmental improvement schemes; shop front improvement schemes, housing renewal schemes, workforce development programmes, redevelopment of derelict buildings into new industrial and commercial workspace for new and small businesses.

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  • Community capacity building and social inclusion initiatives, involving facilitating community forums and community participation exercises to develop community-led regeneration strategies and action plans to tackle deprivation, worklessness and issues of health, crime and drugs.

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  • Supporting the establishment and growth of community organisations, including community-led regeneration forums, community enterprises, co-operatives, development trusts, credit unions and community-led one stop shops.

 

Recent areas of activity supporting community groups with health and social care issues include:

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  • Facilitating new models of collaborative working between parent groups, local authorities, the NHS and private service providers.

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  • Increasing choice and strengthening the influence of parents and service-users on market development and service delivery within the health and social care sectors that would otherwise be out of the reach of individual service users on their own.

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  • Promoting innovation in the design, funding and delivery of services and support in the health and social care sector.

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  • Helping stimulate the development of the health and social care market and encouraging the entry of new providers into the market place.

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Health and Social Care Sector

 

An emerging area of work for us is supporting community groups deliver projects within the health and social care sectors. This has arisen through years of personal involvement in the health and social care sector by Pentuple Consulting’s founder, Steve Dibnah, ensuring his profoundly disabled daughter’s education, health and social care needs are continually being met. Through the process of getting the right support to meet his own daughter’s needs, he had a growing realisation of a huge unmet demand from individual parents and community groups who are looking for guidance and support to help them find solutions to things that matter to them.

 

Building on our experience and expertise gained within broader economic and community development activity, we are now focussing more of our activities on supporting more community groups with projects and ideas within the health and social care agendas. We believe we are well placed to undertake commissioned projects and assignments on behalf of a wide range of community groups on a consultancy basis.

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Our Services for Community Organisations and Groups

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The services we offer enable us to support and deliver a wide range of assignments and commissioned projects for community organisations and groups. Examples of the type of services and support we can provide, include:

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  • Undertaking research, analysis and consultation to find out what is important to people in their community.

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  • Facilitating community engagement exercises to find the best solution to things that matter, , as well as to provide the basis for responses to public policy consultations, lobbying activities, local needs assessments, etc. Including facilitating visioning, scoping and scenario planning exercises.

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  • Supporting the process of developing community-led strategies and action plans to develop a shared vision and set out the steps for achieving key goals and desired changes identified as being important to a community.

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  • Coordinating the preparation of bids to secure grant funding, including support for preparing funding proposals, bid writing and managing the bidding process including any post award delivery arrangements, as required.

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  • Building relationships and facilitating a collaborative approach to working in partnership with key decision makers in the public and private sector to deliver changes that are important to the community, including innovation in the design, funding and delivery of health and social care services.

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  • Providing project oversight, coordination and delivery support to enable community organisations and groups put their own solutions in to practice.

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Get in Touch

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If you are interested in finding out more about how Pentuple Consulting may be able to help you, contact us today.

 

 

 

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Case Study: Developing a Proposal for a New Form of PMLD Day Care Service

 

Supporting a parent-led initiative for the establishment of a new form of building-based day care service in Leicestershire for young adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities, who are at the most severe end of the PMLD spectrum. This involved:

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  • Enabling parents of disabled young adults with PMLD to work together and collaborate more effectively to achieve their shared goals and outcomes.

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  • Establishing a dialogue and facilitating effective collaboration between parents, local authorities, the NHS and private care providers.

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  • Preparing a scoping report, action plan and business case for the establishment of a new form of day care and short breaks respite service, highlighting gaps in the market, proposing a model service provision and identifying a range of funding and delivery options.

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  • Undertaking a soft market testing exercise to establish the level of interest from the market to provide the proposed new service.

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  • Coordinating an awareness raising campaign and a market research exercise to demonstrate demand from potential users for the new service.

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  • Encouraging innovation in the design, funding and delivery of services and support in the health and social care sector.

 

  • Facilitating the development of a new joint venture between a parent group and a private care provider to establish an innovative new day care service.

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