• Our Services - Introduction
• Project development and management
• Helping organisations bid for funds
• High Value Training
• Strategic development
• Financial and contract management
• Research and evaluation

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Our Services - Introduction
Wessex Partnerships offers a comprehensive service package comprising strategy development, accessing public and private finance and project implementation.

Our client base includes a range of publicly funded agencies, local authorities, education institutions, industry sector groups and the community and voluntary sector.

Our aim is to provide consulting and advisory services dedicated to meeting the individual needs of each and every one of our clients.

Wessex Partnerships staff have a wealth of practical experience, providing support for projects of every type in the fields of economic development, urban and rural regeneration for over 15 years both in the UK and internationally.

Our particular strength lies in accessing UK and European funding for both small and large scale projects. We specialise in understanding the technical requirements of complex funding streams in order to provide clarity and focus to inform and support our clients.

With a 90% success rate in winning EU funding, we have established an enviable track record of innovation and creativity that delivers excellent results in helping organisations and partnerships to bid for funds. We pride ourselves on our project management support from initial research through to evaluation and everything in between.

Benefits of working with Wessex Partnerships Ltd include:

• Winning funding and resources to support opportunities for your business, organisation or partnership

• Identifying practical, tailored solutions to complex issues

• Building your network of contacts

• Achieving collaborative advantage through working together

• Helping with project management and contract administration for successful outcomes
   

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Project Development and Management
Transforming ideas into real projects…
Our service takes clients from the germ of an idea, through to implementation and everything in between.

Our ability to combine the design, management and direct service provision as an integrated package in the fields of economic development and regeneration offers our clients opportunities to add value and improve services.

Our project management experience enables us to provide the necessary skills and technical expertise for the most complex of challenges.

We are able to structure solutions and processes to meet any service need, be it the provision of an experienced interim project management resource, offering a project trouble-shooter service to help clients get work back on track, through to providing a total project support service based on delivering a quality customer care service and competitive unit cost.

Our dedicated staff have a long history of partnering with the public sector to achieve the development and implementation of projects and service solutions which directly improve the strategic position of our clients and their quality of delivery.

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Helping organisations to bid for funds
Developing winning proposals...
Wessex Partnerships has provided consulting and advisory services (from a range of UK and European sources) to its clients to write successful bids and gain additional funding to enhance or extend vital service provision.

Our experience of writing successful bids over the last 7 years has led to more than 80 projects being funded from various UK and European sources totalling in excess of £15m.
Examples of our funding successes can be found on our 'Case Studies' page.

We recognise that a high degree of integration, trust and openness is fundamental to the success of partnership working. Our ability to understand our clients needs and our experience in developing partnerships shows us to be at the forefront of collaborative working. Our approach to this and other projects has been to focus single-mindedly on the needs of the ‘end-customer,’ thus providing a tailored solution capable of delivering real service improvements.

In exploring funding opportunities, we follow a structured process developed through experience. The process is flexible and will identify the objectives, constraints and opportunities inherent in each project and enable us to help get results which add value for our customers.

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Strategic Development
Aims and objectives…
We can help client partners develop an overall strategy and determine which projects and programmes will best support this strategy.

It is vital to take a strategic view of the needs of an organisation’s intended beneficiaries and frame these in a funding plan. Strategic objectives can deal with such issues as employment creation, training, raising educational achievement, improving health and preventing crime.

A successful programme will be based on sound analysis of what each project can contribute to the overall strategic aims and objectives. It will need make the most of what is going on around it - harnessing the power of existing agencies and service providers - plugging gaps and avoiding duplication.

We will help a local economic development organisation to develop its overall strategy and which projects will best support this strategy. We can consider implementation measures and help define and maximise your partnership role. We will analyse implications of key developments for your organisation as and when they happen. We can assist in strengthening the local role with partners by:

• Identifying measurable targets

• Identifying quantifiable outcomes

• Conducting needs analysis of client groups

• Auditing current activities

• Identifying innovative solutions based on best practice employed elsewhere

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Financial and Contract Management
The tools needed to administer a successful project…
As part of our ongoing project support, a service particularly valued by our clients is the contract and financial management to aid the smooth operation of the project.

Proposals that have been successful in a competitive bidding round require considerable attention to ensure that management and financial information is captured from the outset to satisfy the funding providers.

It is essential that adequate monitoring systems are in place from the beginning of the project. Wessex Partnerships will help customers set up such systems and provide an on-going service to aid the smooth operation of the project.

We will help to ensure that projects remain on course, tasks are allocated and undertaken to meet required timescales and funders’ requirements and that appropriate management information is collected so that partners know how work is progressing.

We will help clients to set up robust systems to ensure that management, output and financial information is captured from the outset to satisfy funding sponsors and also provide project managers with an on-going service to aid the smooth operation of each project.

Managing over 80 projects funded from a range of UK and European sources has enabled us to build up a technical expertise as well as considerable experience of dealing with the financial management aspects.

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Research and Evaluation
Assisting the planning process…
Wessex Partnerships’ track record in project implementation is complemented by its skill base in the field of research and evaluation.

Recent and relevant research is required for an organization or partnership on which to base the remit of its work. Research into intended beneficiary needs is an important part of the construction of proposals for funding, to demonstrate a necessary awareness to the funding body and ensure that the proposed project has the greatest chance of successful implementation.

Wessex Partnerships has expertise in and access to a wide range of economic research material to help identify the key requirements of a local economy, industry sector, specific theme or community.

We have a strong research-based track record with an in-depth knowledge of labour market issues and trends, current training policy and practice, industry sector trends, business trends and needs as well as covering themes such as technology and social inclusion.

Most national and EU / international projects and policies have a requirement to be independently evaluated both in terms of their absolute outcomes and the cost efficiency of alternative methods for achieving outcomes.

We can objectively evaluate the design, development and delivery of your project, offering greater validity to the findings of the exercise than would be possible with an in-house evaluation and ensure that future work learns from past experience and builds on good practice.

We understand that best value is central to all local authority activity management and the links between service delivery with policy formulation and planning. Our economic development activities are integrated into a wider regeneration focus ensuring maximum linkage in the following service areas:

• Evaluation of EU/SRB/NRF projects

• Labour market research

• Project appraisal

• Feasibility studies

• Programme / project impact assessment

• Rural development strategies

• Best value advice to local authorities

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