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Advice

You may want to take on staff, move to a larger premises, negotiate new contracts, or restructure your business. Whatever challenges your business is facing, we can almost certainly offer help.

With practical business experience, We offer a advice in variety of areas including restructuring, governance, team building, contract negotiation, and contract compliance.

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Design

Need a project managed from beginning to end? We can assist you in project management, service design, ICT design, preparing for audit (IiP, OFSTED, Cit A), fundraising, interim management, quality assurance, client satisfaction, how to obtain and analyse, file management and brought forward systems.

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Business Planning

Over three years firms with business plans grow 33.4% faster than those without. So how do you create one? Many charities and businesses walk away from the challenge of creating a business plan, make sure you are not one of them!

Will "Working 'in' or 'on' the business?" persuade you to start or update your plan? Contact us to help get you started.

Are you hiring more staff, need support for new managers or trustees or need HR advice & support, we can help.

We offer a advice in variety of areas including Recruitment, advertising, interviewing, job specs', inductions, handling supervision, grievance or disciplinary hearings.

Change-up has strategic, business development, marketing and legal experience, placing it in a strong position to advise on all areas of your organisation.

We have expertise on:

• organisational strategy and development
• sustainable funding (which includes fundraising, public service delivery, trading and enterprise, and membership)
• consortia building and partnerships
• governance and leadership
• measuring impact
• volunteering (which includes volunteer management and employee volunteering programmes)
• mentoring and befriending
• research and evaluation (which includes qualitative, quantitative, digital, desk and face to face research)
• campaigning and influencing public policy

Managing Director Mike Rawlings wants to bring his management experience to organisations to support their work in an ever changing world. Extensive knowledge of management techniques, setting up or restructuring organisations or just real hands-on experience bring a catalogue of support that is available to charitable, voluntary and third-sector organisations.

35 years as a CEO, Director of Services and Advice Service Manager have given Mike a unique insight into the governance, operations and performance criteria required for the successful survival and quality service provision for today's not-for-profit businesses. Dealing with quality assurance, auditing, restructuring, project management, recruitment, personnel management and fundraising can be daunting and exhausting, particularly for small to medium sized operations with perhaps a sole manager or chief officer, or a small management or trustee board.

As the founder of Change-Up, Mike is looking to bring knowledge and practical know-how to your organisation, sometimes to increase revenue and quality of service provision and sometimes to restructure and react to turbulent situations. Time spent in the not-for-profit sector, civil service, construction, project management and retail management brings a unique blend of customer service and expert understanding of how a business operates and how it can succeed in testing times.

Some of the projects Mike has been involved with are:

• Starting the first not-for-profit legal aid consortium for civil legal aid in the country.
• Reviving the fortunes of a small advice agency, raising the funds and managing the construction of the new advice centre back in the community.
• Successfully winning over £1m of legal aid contracts for civil legal casework across Essex with caseworkers delivering services across 10 advice agencies.
• Refurbishing and integrating an adjoining property for a substance misuse crisis centre in the heart of London to care home standards and listed building status whilst maintaining occupancy and service to the communities across London.
• Helping to plan and project manage a three storey new-build community resource centre to house large and small voluntary and charitable organisations.
• Delivering contracts won from Ministry of Justice, Big Lottery Fund, Department of Energy & Climate Change, Legal Aid Board, Lloyds TSB Foundation, Veolia Trust, EHRC, Essex County Council and many local authorities.
• Winning the contract to provide housing advice and information for a local authority.
• Serving as a Director of local charitable organisations and chair of the governing body for Thurrock Adult Community College, including leading on two OFSTED inspections.