Organisations

Strategic and Business Planning - Setting the Context and Preparing for Growth: This includes strategic planning, governance, business/operational planning, financial planning, marketing and sales, collaboration activities, and campaigning and influencing. A clear understanding of the organisational objectives informs our approach enabling us to ensure that the planning outcomes become real operational tools. We support an organisation helping them to achieve its vision; tied in with ways to measure mission impact and operational effectiveness and efficiency.  www.aperio-group.com/consultingandsupportservices/strategicandbusinessplanning.html

Readiness Support: Aperio provides a variety of services designed to enhance an organisation, creating and reinforcing an environment that stimulates innovation and social entrepreneurialism, through training and mentoring.www.aperio-group.com/consultingandsupportservices/otherservices.html

Enterprise Development: Our team has extensive experience in developing and/or growing social enterprise/trading/public sector contracting, improving the performance of trading operations, developing new markets, new sectors and new skills. Workshops, hands on development and additional resource are all provided. www.aperio-group.com/consultingandsupportservices/socialenterprisecharitytrading.html

Strategic Fundraising: Aperio provides strategic fundraising support by means of reviewing existing organisational approaches, opening up new markets to an organisation’s existing fundraising activities; major gifts revenue generation and high engagement giving/venture philanthropy. www.aperio-group.com/consultingandsupportservices/fundraising.html

Organisational Development: Interim services supporting turnaround and growth.  www.aperio-group.com/consultingandsupportservices/otherservices.html

Founded in Bangladesh and now working in eleven countries, we are by some measures the largest non-governmental organisation in the world, an innovator in poverty eradication and a social enterprise offering sustainable pathways out of poverty. Demonstrating the power of a holistic, community-based approach and best known for the scale of our programmes we have created opportunities for 135 million people, mostly women, to create lasting change.

Poor communities are crucial actors and change makers in development and not passive recipients of aid. Working together we design programmes that promote social inclusion through microfinance, education, healthcare, agriculture, livelihood support, legal aid services, community empowerment and profit making social enterprises which feedback into development and take a triple bottom line approach.

BRAC UK works as part of the international BRAC family to raise awareness and funds for our low cost, high impact approach. Developing partnerships in Europe with non-governmental organisations, academics, research institutes, the private sector and governments.

Started in 2005 as the social investment arm of The Big Issue, Big Issue Invest (BII) extends the Group’s mission by backing social ventures and charities that dismantle poverty and create opportunity for for people and communities across the UK.

Our vision is to create a “social merchant bank” - by social entrepreneurs,

for social entrepreneurs. We pay any dividends generated by our investments to The Big Issue Group, which is a social enterprise itself, to further our mission.

BII manages or advises on over £150m of social funds. Investments range from £50,000 to £3 million and take the form of early stage finance, loans, and equity.