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Consultants home |
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Consultant approval process |
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Consultant database |
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Consultant resources |
Opportunities for consultants |
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| Many of the BMOs who
apply for financial support are also in need of a range of skills and
expertise which they can only find externally. |
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Advocacy grants |
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BMOs seeking support to undertake advocacy and
dialogue may look for consultants who can assist in undertaking research on their
behalf, either to identify issues or to understand issues that have already
been identified, to write the results of research into concise but
comprehensive research reports, and to prepare brief but compelling policy
position papers. |
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Sustainability grants |
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| BMOs seeking support to
undertake sustainability projects and develop income generating services
may require consultancy support to assist with strategic thinking,
business planning, service development, financial forecasting, marketing
etc. |
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Approved consultants |
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| We
recognise the importance of well researched and well argued policy
position papers and want to assist all BMOs to do this consistently. We
have therefore decided to create a database of approved consultants. BMOs
will be required to use consultants that have been approved. The objective
of approval is to ensure that consultants understand what is required of
them, so are less likely to have work rejected, and that they are able to
achieve the standard expected. There is no
requirement to be approved before being selected by a BMO as
the 'preferred' consultant, but there is a requirement to be
approved before the BMO can sign a contract. The list
of approved consultants will be made available on the website. We anticipate
that as the list grows, this will become a valuable resource for BMOs
who are looking for consultancy support. |
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Approval process |
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you would like to seek approval by the Business Advocacy Fund and to be
included on our list of approved consultants, please download the
application form, complete it, and return it with a copy of a recent
report that you have prepared for a client. We will review the application
within a week and will let you know whether you have been
successful. |
Consultant approval process |
Research and policy writing standards |
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| The standards required
for research reports and policy positions papers are set out in two of the
fact sheets prepared to assist BMOs. |
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| Commissioning research |
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| Writing policy position papers |
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Examples of good practice |
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| It might be helpful to
look at examples of good practice in presenting the results of research
and in policy position papers. |
Go to good
practice |
Strategic and business planning consultants |
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| Standards required for
consultants assisting with strategy, business planning and service
development will be available shortly. |
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Other support |
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| BMOs
without appropriate
expertise are encouraged to sub-contract to consultants. Whilst there is no requirement
to use them, we have provided a model contract and model terms of
reference, to assist BMOs. These are available both as PDFs and Word documents. |
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| Model contract |
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| Model terms of
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Consultant database |
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| All consultants who are
approved will be included on the Business Advocacy Fund's publicly
available consultant database. |
Consultant database |
Further questions |
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| If you have
any questions, feel free to contact the Business Advocacy Fund and we
will do our very best to provide the advice and support that you need. |
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