Oakmere Solutions delivers high quality contemporary consultancy, evaluation and change management services to clients underpinned by values of customer service, confidentiality and professional integrity. Launched in 2009 we offer:
Oakmere Solutions is committed to ethical and sustainable business practice, to maintaining and promoting equal opportunities and the health, welfare and well-being of its customers, stakeholders, associates and directors.
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The Britten-Pears Foundation, Suffolk
Consultancy leading to the completion of an activity plan for Britten 100, a major project to increase learning about, and participation in, the heritage legacy of Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh.
Square Chapel Centre for the Arts, Halifax
Consultancy leading to the completion of a business plan for a myplace application for the Orangebox young people’s centre in Halifax, Yorkshire.
IDEA Ltd
Oakmere Solutions is providing consultancy and management services to this innovative skills initiative. IDEA Ltd was launched by the Prime Minister in February 2009 and is a joint venture between BT, Cisco, University College London, University of East Anglia, University of Essex, University Campus Suffolk and Suffolk New College. The work of IDEA builds on the strengths of these founding partners to create innovative solutions to skills and training requirements and the promotion of qualificatory success through a skills escalator.
Faith in Maintenance
Oakmere Solutions is the external evaluator for this multi-year project due to complete in 2011. It is lead by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and English Heritage. The project provides training and support for volunteers in England and Wales who help to maintain historic places of worship.
Heritage Lottery Fund
Oakmere Solutions provides expert advice, associate monitoring and mentoring services to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). Current projects include:
Recently Completed Projects
National Trust of Western Australia
In May 2010 Oakmere Solutions completed a consultancy project for the National Trust of Western Australia supporting its work in establishing a robust methodology for determining the social and economic value of the heritage.
GutterClear
Oakemere Solutions completed market research for the GutterClear project in September 2009. GutterClear is an initiative of the Diocese of Gloucester in collaboration with Maintain our Heritage and provides a service to churches in the Gloucester Diocese.
Heritage Lottery Fund
Since 2009 Oakmere Solutions has undertaken commissions from HLF with the following projects:
Dr. Peter Funnell
Peter has over 20 year’s experience of consultancy and project design and evaluation in both the public and private sectors. He has enjoyed a distinguished academic career most recently as Director of Enterprise and Executive Dean, Arts, Business and Social Sciences at University Campus Suffolk. He has published widely and enjoys an international reputation in the field of e-learning. He has undertaken consultancies across Europe, in Australia and the Middle East alongside two BT research fellowships and a Visiting Fellowship at Murdoch University, Australia. He has considerable experience of economic development and regeneration and working and supporting small and micro businesses. He is President of the Suffolk Chamber of Commerce and holds other board positions including chair of the Eastern Angles Theatre Company, trustee of the Ipswich Town Community Trust and co-opted member of the Council of the Suffolk Agriculture Association. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
E: peter@oakmeresolutions.co.uk
Dr. Sharon Goddard
Sharon has extensive consultancy experience in the field of learning and skills, volunteering, audience development, and project evaluation. Sharon's expertise has been gained through teaching and managing in further education, as a national policy and research lead on learning, skills and young people issues for the Heritage Lottery Fund, as a strategic educational planner and commissioner with the Learning and Skills Council, and as a national advisor on 14 – 19 education for the UK Government's Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). Sharon's consultancy clients include the National Trust in Western Australia; the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings; Maintain our Heritage; and the Heritage Lottery Fund where she is an expert advisor. Sharon is a Trustee of GEM, the professional association for heritage educationalists. In 2009 she completed work with the Council of Europe supporting the implementation of the Faro Convention on the value of the cultural heritage for society including writing a chapter "Heritage Partnerships - promoting public involvement and understanding" for the recent Council of Europe publication, Heritage and Beyond, (2009) Council of Europe publishing.
E: sharon@oakmeresolutions.co.uk
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Phone: 07733974487
Email Peter: peter@oakmeresolutions.co.uk
Email Sharon: sharon@oakmeresolutions.co.uk
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