Some Partnership People

Radha Clelland The SmithMartin Partnership are delighted that Radha Clelland has also become part of the SmithMartin family. Radha brings to the partnership a raft of design and production expertise, complmenting our internal drive to change and improve the marketing of our services and resource supply as well as, more importantly, bringing contemporary design and technical knowledge to client project marketing and identity. A short biographical sketch for Radha is given below. Radha Clelland is a graphic designer, expert in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark Xpress.  She has an extensive and diverse professional history as a designer, including design agency work with blue-chip clients, producing leading scientific and financial publications for large and small publishing houses, and cartography for a variety of clients such as the BBC. With extensive qualifications and experience in her field of expertise Radha is ideally placed in the partnership to offer projects professional design input to maximise brand identity, clarity of message and maximum impact for hard won funding. Awaiting phtograph. Welcome to our partnership Radha...

Sue Martin Sue's career profile has been formed from an extensive background in education and management, leading into development of childcare and children's services in diverse and disadvantaged communities. A passion for encouraging creativity has enabled projects to develop a vitality and enthusiasm to sustain interest and effect long term future success. Visionary ideas, coupled with a pragmatic understanding have helped to turn concepts into successful realities and created opportunities in which children can shine. With an understanding of working within a Local Authority structure, services such as Extended Schools and Children's Centres can be delivered within time scales. Consultation with children and young people of all ages is best placed to enable effective and sustainable practice. It empowers stakeholders, gives a voice to even the youngest of children and brings a dynamism to the project. We are committed to this being a 'First Step' in projects we undertake. We can help you find your way through the web of procedures and funding streams to successfully create the ideas that you and the children need. Project lead and change programmes Buildings for children, from new nurseries to Children Centres Recruitment campaigns for staffing Sustainable services for the present and the future Partnerships with voluntary,statutory and private sector Within our partnership we have skills in children's services, education, childcare , business structures and third sector trading. This combination is now at the forefront of enabling projects to be both successful, inventive and sustainable. The languages of business and education are connected. If you would like to find out how, as a partnership we can help you, please get in touch. Children's Centres, Extended Schools, Nursery and Out of School Provision, Innovative Projects

Regina Bash-Taqi Regina Bash-Taqi is social entrepreneur who has founded and managed two children's charities - Lighthouse Children's Foundation and Childhood Foundation. She has extensive hands-on on experience of setting up childcare and out of school education projects, especially in disadvantaged areas. (Awaiting photograph...) Coupled with her ability to do hands on work, Regina has a strong educational background - she graduated from Imperial College London with a degree in Chemistry, has a Masters degree in Education, a diploma in management and is a qualified trainer. Regina is currently pursuing a D.Ed. with the Open University, and training to become an online tutor. Passionate about learning, she believes that education and training is key to the development of high quality services. Regina has completed a number of successful assignments as a freelance consultant working for organisations such the Department for Education and Skills, The Trojans Scheme (now Kids City) and 4Children. Regina was member of the Childcare Commission - a millennium think tank that set the blueprint for most of the UK's childcare policies this decade and was one of the  founding trustees of  the Resource Unit for Supplementary and Mother Tongue Schools. She is a Millennium Fellow, and was London winner of the 1998 Times/Natwest Community Enterprise Awards. Currently runnning two e-projects focussing on the childcare sector  - Childworks.co.uk - an online recruitment service for childcare staff as well as childcareprofessionals.net - the UK's largest online community of childcare professionals. Regina also  maintains face-to-face contact with children by running - Club Mania, a high quality summer project for 8-14 yr olds in Carshalton. As part of her work with the Childhood Foundation, she is working on developing projects for children in Sierra Leone.

Tim Smith Photograph courtesy of Rachel Morris Tim has a background in commercial general management in the private sector, with many years experience of both organisational and trading development in the charitable and voluntary sectors. Co-ordinating a range of partnership resources - whether working with specialist associates, formulating complex bids or delivering web services to support and market projects. Specialising in governance issues, community business development and funding, Tim also has wide experience of providing technical support to projects bidding for EU funds - ESF, ERDF etc., as well as providing a lead to the partnership on web technology and application. Tim is also responsible for the partnership technical infrastructure - utilising voice over internet, collaborative shared workspaces and a variety of web applications - our partnership deploys the technology that it can bring to clients through our web design, web hosting and email service arm, Thirdsectorweb. As a Partnership we aim to bring a range of knowledge and skills to the divide between the public and prvate sectors.Profits and surpluses need to be made in order to protect the sustainability of the organisation. The pursuit of these goals does not mean that the high values of trust, care - for both team members and customers - and the principles of best practice need to be forgotten. On the contrary, we would argue that high values and high quality customer services make good travelling companions. Governance and organisational development Appraisal and evaluation. Funding and effective partnership formation Business plans and operational delivery. Our partnership is happy to discuss with you any aspect of business planning in the not for profit sector. We will advise on project finance and management reporting, working with your team to develop their skills. Let us help you to angle your whole organisation towards sustainability.