Professionals we recommend We are happy to offer both our existing clients and those looking to use our services, a list of professionals we recommend. We have long experience of development and supply in our sector - the services delivered below provide a professional compliment to your resource requirements across a variety of themes. We are happy to work in concert with any of the following organisations in the delivery of your project.  Whether as a project manager for your enterprise, or as a direct supplier, SmithMartin are happy to work with these innovative and dynamic suppliers.

The partners at Gnosis Consultancy provide thoughtful and effective solutions in the field of leadership training, change management, innovation in organisations and the development of effective leadership skills. We like them for the additonality that they bring to our sectoral knowledge, with the Gnosis team able to use their meta-skills in personal development as a framework for sector specific growth and skill cultivation. (Elegant web site too!) You can see Gnosis on the web here...

Elephant Kiosks The team at Elephant Kiosks provide flexible and accessible information portal solutions to a similar client group as our Partnership. They offer mobile or hardwired information solutions, that come with a huge helping of innovative design and friendly colour in any public space. A brilliant compliment to your setting web site or a millenial leap ahead for a static notice board. The Elephant Kiosk team can bring an information rich resource into any area of your building. See the elephant kiosk web site here.

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 CoolHead Company The CoolHead Company are a London based group who deliver some exciting and innovative work around financial literacy. Offering clients a range of courses including Finance Fitness, a programme of fun learning and financial discovery for women and Fun with Finance, numbers and money explored in a fun and interesting way for children. Offering subjects that extend the curriculum - the fully qualified and resourced CoolHead team can extend the knowledge of young people and parents and carers about finance and money management. See the CoolHead Company at http://www.coolheadcompany.co.uk/   The company trainers are CRB checked, experienced and great fun.

BSB Signs & Shelters                                                                                         External link to BSB Signs BSB Signs of Chingford provide highly professional signage and display for a wide variety of our clients. SmithMartin are proud to specify BSB manufactured products as part of our project management and procurement service. BSB also manufacture shelters for the education and community market. You can see their installations at www.bsbshelters.co.uk

On Demand Technology This East Anglian based technology services company offer clients access to a range of technical solutions in print, mailing and responsive marketing materials. Utilising on demand print expertise, variable data publishing to target client profiles precisely and delivering mailing or e-distribution solutions. On Demand offer high expertise in providing hi-tech based marketing solutions. You can find them here - www.ondemandtechnology.co.uk

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. Contact Aisling at aisling.zambon@gmail.com Aisling ONeill Zambon Theatre in Education Practitioner/ Theatre Director.

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.

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