Professionals we recommend On this page you will find companies and partners with whom we have collaborated in the past. SmithMartin are keen to encourage their partners to undertake pro-bono work to develop voluntary sector organisations. We are currently working in partnership with the communityof Newmarket in Suffolk to deliver a new Imagination Centre for children and young people. SmithMartin and The Johns Practice, featured on this page, are proud to sponsor this innovative and energetic new building. Send to a Friend

The Johns Practice - Chartered Architects As Chartered Architects The Johns Practice can deliver an award winning range of design, visualisation and full service architectural services to a varied client base. Adept at the creation of a wide range of industial and domestic buildings, the Johns Practice can also sympathetically manage and deliver projects in the community and public sectors. The Newmarket based team, operating across the UK, work sympathetically with partners whilst evidencing empathy with the values of our sector. The Johns Practice web pages contain useful case studies to illustrate their work and the practice recognition of issues around inclusion, equality and celebrating difference. ''In recent years The Johns Practice has been involved in designing some of the most progressive health and care buildings in East Anglia. Working closely with clients such as the NHS and local authorities, housing associations, health and care workers and those who use the facilities, The Johns Practice delivers sympathetic and workable design solutions that meet the rigorous and challenging demands of patient-focused care buildings. We design for those with special needs, the frail and elderly, those living with dementia, the partially sighted, intermediate care, supported housing, very sheltered housing, adults and children with learning disabilities, adults and children with mental health needs, and adults with profound disability.''  The Johns Practice website - 2005. Email info@johnspractice.co.uk

The Management Development Network This West Midlands based consultancy  (MDN) '...provides research, design and evaluation services to organisations that contract or deliver Government funded regeneration programmes aiming to improve the performance of education, health, community safety, training, employment and business development in the UK'. The Management Development Network have extensive experience in delivering contracted work around LSC, DfEE, Connexions, Business Link, SRB, EAZ, HAZ, NRF and NDC delivery programmes. Managing Partner, Malcolm Peters has a particular interest in the development of strategic partnerships, especially at the business/education interface. For first confidential contact with the MDN Wolverhampton office, or a copy of their client portfolio, email Malcolm Peters at malcolm@mdn-consultancy.co.uk The MDN website The Management Development Network - Independent verification of progress, impact and achievements.

Aisling ONeill Zambon Aisling is a specialist practitioner of theatre in education. As a director Aisling has created a number of productions for companies as diverse as the Big Foot Theatre Company, Criterion Theatre and the Eastside Educational Trust, as well as working on innovative productions sponsored by Hertfordshire County Council. With experience of project management in the arts, Aisling has led workshops across a variety of themes, working with young people - using performance art as a development medium - for excluded young people, children with physical and mental disabilities and has led workshop based research for The Children’s Fund. Sympathetic to the work of the SmithMartin Partnership, Aisling’s practice also encompasses the facilitation of community theatre projects – including ‘Roads to Recovery’, a Core Arts project for artists, service users and mental health workers, as well as an over 60’s community drama project for the Gate Theatre. Performance arts can be applied to the development/regeneration agenda. Creating a space for any constituency to reflect and learn from new experiences is a highly sympathetic artistic process in engaging communities in change. Aisling can be contacted, for new commissions or to discuss how performance arts can benefit your project through the SmithMartin Partnership or directly at aislingzambon@hotmail.co.uk. Aisling ONeill Zambon Theatre in Education Practitioner/ Theatre Director.

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