© 2002 Makesfive ltd & EDuce ltd
ABOUT MAKESFIVE AND EDUCE


Our companies, Makesfive ltd and EDuce ltd, have worked together on many consultancy projects since 1997. We combine subject expertise and practical experience in partnership/ organisational development and local economic/ business development. Solihin Garrard, Director of Makesfive ltd, and Derrick Johnstone, Director of EDuce ltd lead on this collaboration between our two companies.

Our services include:

  • helping you set up partnerships, networks and alliances
  • diagnosing partnership problems and helping you manage change
  • business planning and bidding for funding for joint projects
  • facilitating partnership events
  • developing and delivering training in partnering skills
  • supporting sector networks and cluster development
  • carrying out interviews, focus groups & desk research

Joint projects have included:

  • Evaluating the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit's Skills and Knowledge Programme for local regeneration and renewal practitioners and community participants
  • Helping partners to develop the right skills in partnership working to maximise the benefits of working with others
  • Partnering 2000, a regional European Social Fund project helping small and medium companies to develop collaborative business ventures
  • the Kent Partners Skills Programme, which promoted training and development activities to build partnership skills and effectiveness in key areas for the Kent Prospects economic strategy (e.g., sector development, inward investment)
  • strengthening relationships and brokering partnership agreements between Regional Development Agencies and sub-regional economic partnerships in the South East and West Midlands
  • helping the South East of England Development Agency develop its approach to integrating cluster and supply chain development
  • enabling business support agencies to develop greater collaboration, synergy and increased impact

CLICK for a joint track record showing the full range of our work
(595 K)

and a leaflet showing our full range of services
(185 K)

Our clients include business, government agencies (including government Departments, Business Links and Learning and Skills Councils), local authorities, trade unions, further and higher education, and the voluntary and community sector at national and local levels.

Online outputs include Five Vital Lessons, a guide for agencies working in partnership with business (produced for the Department for Education and Skills).