SmithMartin Partnership LLP SmithMartin LLP delivers community focused projects in schools, childcare settings, children's centres, social enterprise and charities. Our business services brochure is available on our archive page   - please take a copy with our compliments. We are members of Ethical Junction, Social Enterprise London,  4Children, DayCare Trust and Better Payment Practice. New this month ... Partners build a space rocket.... on our news page City Stories a literacy project - on our news page. How are Children Centres performing?  - on our Children Centre page Our current featured document, you can find previous publications on our archive page... The Extra Mile A DCSF publication (May 2008) Whether you are a pilot school for this new initiative or not, the booklet offers useful insights into how schools and their 'delivery systems' can help young people expect and achieve more. There are useful case studies of how other schools and communities in regeneration areas have aspired to alter the learning outcome landscape. We thought the Extra MIle was worth it - it does fit with and help justify the investment in the delivery of our literacy and reading projects - but the illustrative examples were themselves telling in how young people respond to 'self-generated' change. This resource is downloadable here. (.PDF) You may find this and other useful documents for  communities, schools and social enterprise on our archive page. What does our Partnership deliver? Apart from our core services featured on this web-site... Project planning and management Funding and governance support Development of children centres and community businesses Literacy support activities SmithMartin LLP also has trading styles that offer practical resources and integrated solutions for our clients across the public, charitable and social enterprise/community business arena. Procurement of goods, services and graphic design capability in one web site. Offering schools, children centres, childcare settings and community groups a one-stop shop for services that help promote and deliver your projects...and great children's books too as always. Read more... Our children's books and literacy support retail web service. We are always adding new titles to our lists - aiding us in our aim of developing a broad range of books for children's centres, schools and community groups. Read more... Community web design, hosting and email. Providing an accessible, clear and affordable web presence for our sector. Read more... Children's services & literacy development Our partners and associates have wide experience of developing and delivering services, for children and young people, with a variety of partners. From activities such as relocating child care settings to delivery of community consultation on new service development including team training, Children's Centres and extended school provision - we can help. Always aligned with best practice, our work can involve consultation, mapping and whole project delivery or simply providing a framework for the creation and kick start of new initiatives.   Browse our web pages for a flavour of the contribution we can make. Projects, management and vision We can often provide skilled, professional expertise to cover your immediate needs. We are adept at quickly acquiring the cultural, policy and operational sensitivities necessary to manage change on your behalf in partnership with existing teams.    Our Partnership can also help you carry forward new programmes of work or evaluation and appraisal to tight timetable and budgetary limits. We also regularly undertake support and  mentoring for a variety of operating officers and trustees. We are committed to pro bono support in our sector, building capacity for the benefit of everyone. Change and community business creation Balancing the demands of a customer/service user environment, the need for the generation of a surplus to ensure sustainability and the delivery of the whole proposition with appropriately high values and public sector policies, creates a complex matrix of seemingly conflicting demands. We have many years of experience of operating across the public/private interface. We deploy this skill set in your service. Explore this site to see how we can support community enterprise in your area. Our aim is to work with all our partners, your volunteers and staff teams,to deliver practical support, effective ground level change and to re-charge enthusiasm and energy in whatever we do. It's a large, diffuse agenda we tackle with you, but we know our experience can count. We calculate and care on your behalf. We hope you find our pages informative and we are happy to talk to you about the solutions we can provide at at any time. In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. John Masefield - Poet and writer (1878 – 1967) See his Wikipedia entry here .