CONSULTANCY SERVICE
INTRODUCTION
MDA's consultancy team consists of skilled and experienced senior staff who will bring integrity, independence, and energy to help change your organisation. We will draw upon our full breadth of knowledge, experience, and sector understanding to help you develop practical ideas and create the best solutions
Support can be provided on a one-to-one basis for individual organisations as well as networked groups, including local forums and umbrella consortia of various kinds. It is designed to look comprehensively at all areas of managerial and organisational need and service provision, and is regulated by a system of procedures, values, mechanisms and processes. Its purpose is developmental in that it sets out to strengthen organisational capacity.
An integrated picture of the organisation is the first prerequisite, in determining the remit for consultancy support. This is the organisational health check and from this we will develop a package of support which will focus on PROCESS and IMPACT. We will make sure that you get results from our consultancy provision.
HOW WE CAN HELP YOU
1. We can help you
- Strategically plan the work of your organisation
- Develop the way you manage and deliver your work
- Build the capacity and skills of your organisation, its staff, management committee and volunteers
- Identify and meet the needs of your users · Access interactive and practical learning opportunities
- Develop joint working initiatives with fellow organisations
- Contact and work collaboratively with key mainstream organisations in your area.
- Access information key to your organisations development
- Participate in local community activity and decision-making
2. Who we work with
- Voluntary and community organisations
- Social enterprises
- Co-operatives
We can work with your board of trustees, your management and staff
4. Fundraising
- Project development
- Business/Strategic planning
- Developing policies and procedures
- Charity/Company Registration
- Developing management systems
- Developing financial control systems
- Developing equal opportunities procedures
- Developing good employment practices
- Developing good volunteering practices
- Organisational History
- Community background
- Legal and financial status
- Funding history
- Fundraising skills
5 . What we look at
- Service delivery
- Service users
- Methodology of service provision
- Systems of accountability and governance
- Skills audit of the governing body
- Skills and competencies of management and staff
- Potential for growth
- Vision and strategic direction of the organisation
- External environment
- Legal and financial status
- Funding history
- Fundraising skills
- Service delivery
- Service users
- Methodology of service provision