August 21, 2026
Social Value shouldn't be this hard
Social value questions are often the ones bid writers dread. They can feel vague, time-consuming, and hard to nail even when you know your organisation is doing brilliant things.
August 21, 2026
Social value questions are often the ones bid writers dread. They can feel vague, time-consuming, and hard to nail even when you know your organisation is doing brilliant things.
September 23, 2026
Connect to Work has a common national purpose: helping people with health conditions, disabilities and other barriers to get into and stay in work through personalised, evidence-led support. But a common programme does not create a common commercial model.
September 29, 2026
While the underlying employment support models are relatively prescribed, the commercial arrangements at local level have varied considerably.
April 8, 2026
Get Britain Working endorsed the Government’s commitment to devolving employability services to Combined/Local Authorities. This policy intent is welcome, especially the acknowledgement that health and employment systems need better coordination through locally agreed plans. But what’s next?
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March 20, 2026
Growth is on every board’s agenda. Winning new work, entering fresh markets, and keeping valued clients is more critical than ever. Yet ambition alone isn’t enough. Too often, great organisations fall short — not for lack of quality, but because of how they approach the market. That’s where our Growth Accelerator comes in, providing practical strategies and systems designed to turn potential into consistent results.
March 20, 2026
Social value isn’t just about compliance—it’s about showing how your organisation can make a meaningful impact while delivering the contract. When done well, it can be the difference between a good bid and a winning one.
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March 20, 2026
Most bids get the numbers right — but that alone isn’t enough to convince evaluators. Zach Law, our Commercial Lead, shares how clear, realistic, and strategic commercial modelling can turn complex financial and operational data into bids that inspire confidence and demonstrate value.
September 23, 2026
Most mobilisation plans cover governance, risk, and reporting — but culture is often left in the margins. John Ashworth, our Mobilisation Lead, explores how defining, developing, and sustaining the right culture can turn a mobilisation plan from a checklist into a living framework for long-term success.
September 23, 2026
Technology is advancing fast, but the real challenge is making it meaningful. Mark Winter, our Digital Lead, explores how smart, pragmatic digital investments create real value for teams, users, and clients — and how telling that story clearly can set bids apart.
Every client engagement is different — so naturally, people have questions about how we work. We’ve answered some of the most common ones.
No. While the UK is our core market, we also support clients in Europe, North America, and Australia. Our consultants have extensive international experience, spanning bidding, commissioning, and the operational delivery of services. We work with our international clients in line with their time zone – doing what is required to deliver round-the-clock support and input when it is needed.
We work with clients of different sizes across different sectors, from mission-led charities to multi-national corporations. Across projects of every scale—from local commissions to £bn national contracts—our clients can be assured we are committed to delivering something genuinely outstanding.
Both. We’ll respond flexibly to what you need. Some clients ask us to run a full bid as an outsourced end-to-end team, while others need just one of our consultants embedded into their own team. Often, it’s something in between — targeted support on strategy, writing, or commercial modelling. Whatever the set-up, we’ll bring the same focus, energy, and commitment to winning.
We embed ourselves as part of your team — working closely with your operational and SME teams, driving progress, and taking ownership of outcomes. Clients tell us it feels like having extra senior capacity that brings structure, energy, and expertise.
We roll up our sleeves, take ownership and bring the energy needed to drive projects forward. We will always be a partner, not a passenger, working collaboratively with your teams and mirroring your commitment to building the most effective solution. Our experienced, sector-experts consultants will challenge conventional thinking, bring new ideas and insights, and focus on quality at all times.
We use AI to accelerate analysis, spot patterns, and free up our experts to focus on the high-value work — solution design, storytelling, and strategy. AI never replaces human insight, it simply makes us faster and sharper.
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We provide services that support the entire business development cycle. That includes shaping strategy, market-entry, bid support and management, commercial modelling and more… in short, it’s about making growth real.
Yes. We always embed retention strategies into the solution – focusing on delivery excellence, stronger commissioner engagement, and readiness for re-bid. We’ll support you to deliver outcomes and build the partnerships needed to support successful contract retention or re-bid.
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