ecosystem building, advisory & delivery
Ecosystem Consulting and Project Delivery
We can be both architect and builder for your community, enterprise or ecosystem project. Share your brief, and Andrea, with her team of associates where needed, will design it and deliver it with you, from partnership set-up and convening to events and delivery on the ground.
Andrea brings 25+ years in sales and business development across the creative, cultural and social enterprise sectors, and 15 years building social ventures. Our work includes: NetShift - supporting 150 SMEs across Devon, and training and consulting for BIPC Devon, The School for Social Entrepreneurs, Hatch Enterprise, the Collective Leadership Group (CLG), Filament CIC, Goldsmiths University, Bournemouth University, Fisterra, and Local Spark. We can also help you find and vet local social and green projects for your CSR programme. Send us your brief (or just the idea). We will reply within two working days to arrange a call.
Enterprise Training and Workshops
Supporting entrepreneurs who face barriers to starting or growing a business? We deliver training, workshops and enterprise support programmes with a focus on sustainable and socially or culturally impactful business models, and capacity building for SMEs in urban and rural economies across the South West. Over 10 years, we've supported women in business, entrepreneurs of colour, migrant entrepreneurs and refugees, young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), neurodivergent entrepreneurs and those experiencing burnout, and ex-corporate founders starting out in a new context. Our support covers: business troubleshooting and decision-making, skills development, opportunity and ecosystem mapping, sales and business development, partnership development, and marketing with optional follow-on mentoring or 1:1 advisory. Delivered for: The School for Social Entrepreneurs, Hatch Enterprise, Goldsmiths, University of London, Libraries Unlimited, Local Spark and more.
Skills-Based Mentoring with VCSEs
We design and deliver skills-based team volunteering events and programmes that puts your people to work on a real live challenge faced by a UK social enterprise. Your employees build their active listening, entrepreneurial and problem-solving skills while creating real social impact. Each programme is built around agreed learning outcomes, and includes briefing and kick off events, workshop facilitation, overall project management, evaluation and impact reporting against social value or your learning out come metrics.
We currently work with Pernod Ricard UK, Colliers Property Consultants and Baringa, and have previously worked with Salesforce, Grosvenor, and Sanofi, alongside mentors from Sky and Starbucks in past events.
4 SUPPORT offerings:
Strategic consulting, ecosystem development, and outreach
We help councils, funders, VCSEs, universities, and purpose-driven companies reach and engage the people their programmes and new projects are for; building partnerships, and delivering the work. Our work includes strategic advisory, research, ecosystem and new market development, outreach, partnership development, events, enterprise training and project delivery.
Developing future-ready talent & emerging leaders
We catalyse skills-based social enterprise mentoring with corporate talent development and social value objectives (employers with 200+) which we do to accelerate the shift needed for your workforce to be future-fit: self aware, resilient, creative and agile. Working across both the private, and VCSE sectors including food and drink, health, property, FMCG.
Enabling local businesses to get on the path to net zero and beyond
Through NetShift, a female-led community interest company, we are supporting SME including not for profits and community businesses to get on the path to net zero and beyond in the south west UK. Additionally, a talent programme supports the next generation of sustainability consultants to develop their skills within the green jobs sector.
Circlewise: bringing indiginous listening circles to workplaces
The Way of Council (or simply Council is a structured, intentional, and ancient practice of gathering in circles to share stories, foster empathy, and deepen understanding among participants. It is a form of deep communication that emphasises listening & speaking from the heart, often used for community building, conflict resolution, and
The Way of Council (or simply Council is a structured, intentional, and ancient practice of gathering in circles to share stories, foster empathy, and deepen understanding among participants. It is a form of deep communication that emphasises listening & speaking from the heart, often used for community building, conflict resolution, and personal growth. We are currently exploring partners to bring this to in their workplace or wellbeing event.
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Find out more about Regenerous mentoring and our three offerings: 1 day team hackathons, 3-4 month focused capacity building mentoring sprints, and longer term L&D engagements.