Crellin Consulting
Crellin Consulting
Hollin House
New Mill
Holmfirth
West Yorkshire
HD9 7HH
Crellin Consulting is an independent organisation with strong social values. The values of Crellin Consulting are to provide services that enable communities and individuals to prosper, particularly where those areas or individuals represent communities that are the most deprived. We achieve this through focusing on providing quality services particularly to public and voluntary sector.
Crellin Consulting operates by bringing together specialist independent associates to deliver specific pieces of work, as such it is able to draw in appropriate expertise whilst operating with very low overheads thus enabling best value in delivery.
The Crellin Consulting team has considerable experience and understanding of the third sector bringing empathy and understanding as well as in depth knowledge. The team has an appropriate depth of knowledge in their own professional areas with a high standard of quality assurance.
As a business Crellin Consulting:
- offers clear strategic advice;
- offers enabling services such as business advice and support, mentoring, graphics and website design etc.to help others achieve their goals and improve delivery;
- and is able to give concise and honest evaluation of programmes and projects.
Crellin Consulting as a business has the unique advantage of being able to work across all three sectors of the economy. Crellin Consulting offers a breadth of expertise delivered by experienced professionals. In particular the Team has hands on experience of working with organisations that are aiming to become social enterprises or community businesses and those who are moving towards being self sustaining.
Services Supplied
Group sessions/ meetings to define purpose, involvement/consultation of stakeholders, research on relevant statistics, writing of business plan in collaboration with organisation, feedback and refinement of Business Plan. Includes pricing, target markets and full cost recovery. Also Includes writing business plans that are sufficiently robust to gain investment support for example from the banking sector or other investors.
Specialist advice on marketing and pricing strategies, working with boards or management committees to make them more commercially aware. Troubleshooting and provision of reports and recommendations.
Research on appropriate sources of funding, liaison with funders and/or relationship building with partners. Advice on matching projects to the funds available. Writing funding applications and securing support.
Desk based research or survey based research including design of questionnaires, targeting, undertaking surveys on line or face to face, analysing and correlating results, compiling report.
Development of Aims and Objectives
Facilitated sessions with boards and management committees and stakeholder consultation through events or surveys.
Working with the organisation to identify risks, developing risk logs, mitigation and scenario planning.
Desk based research or survey based research including design of questionnaires, targeting, undertaking surveys on line or face to face, analysing and correlating results, compiling report.
User feedback through focus groups or surveys including telephone, on line or face to face feedback. Includes the design of questionnaires, conducting the questionnaires, correlation and analysis of results and report writing. Developing future strategies for involvement. The same services can be applied to wider stakeholder feedback.
Assessment of any existing systems, and the design of new systems to fulfil the requirements of public sector funding. Advice on what records need to be kept and for how long, what data needs to be captured and the implications of data protection.
We can provide either independent evaluation for clients to give open and honest feedback on programmes and projects, or we can help clients establish their own systems for ongoing monitoring and evaluation - such as how often to monitor, what to include and how to develop feedback mechanisms for the continuous improvement of services. Where future independent evaluation is required then training can be given on writing evaluation briefs to ensure the service received matches requirements.
Assistance to develop 'Income Generation Strategies' including the best mix of grants, contracts or sales for your organisation. The use of marketing in its widest sense including networking and relationship strategies. Advice on market positioning, the assessment of realistic production costs and pricing strategies. Training and development with clients to develop their skills and commercial awareness.
Writing bids or tenders for clients. Training for clients in bid writing or tender writing. How to determine whether to apply for a particular grant or tender. Development of fundraising strategies in collaboration with management groups and stakeholders. Research of potential grants and where to find contracts. Potential fundraising events as part of fund raising strategies. Developing 'Investment Readiness' especially where bank investment or cash flow funding is required but also in preparation for writing funding bids and/or tenders. Organising events.
Working with management groups to identify any unfunded elements of work. Uncovering the real cost of services and how to price services accurately. How to cover overheads in funding bids/ contracts/ sales. How to deal with unfunded or underfunded areas of work. Building in contingencies and future development capacity.
Developing robust financial systems to support full cost recovery and public sector auditing requirements. Development of output/outcome monitoring systems.
Branding and logo design to reflect the nature and values of organisations. Corporate identification and branding so that documents follow standard designs. Stationary designs - letterhead, business cards, folders etc.
Design and production of leaflets, posters and flyers. Working with organisations on suitable wording. Graphics, sourcing or taking photographs, image sourcing and image manipulation. Full print ready documents and liaison with printers.
The design and layout of community newsletters and leaflets. Sourcing or taking photos, image sourcing and manipulation, graphics layout. Working with groups to produce written copy, proof reading of copy and templates design.
Print ready documents produced and liaison with printers undertaken.
E newsletter production or on line events and questionnaires.
Working with organisations on website creation or updating, including interactive web applications, bespoke software, website management, interactive web applications and database management systems. Design of websites so that organisations can update their own pages online.
Search engine optimisation to promote presence on Google etc.
Website Registration & Hosting
Domain name registration and management, website and email hosting, search engine registration and promotion.
Specialist advice on marketing and pricing strategies, working with management committees to make them more commercially aware. Development of marketing strategies and practical marketing plans.
