What our clients say

 

Mike Hughes: Charnwood 20:20

Effective oversight

We have worked with Gary Richardson since 2001 when he helped King’s Church Trust to set up a work based learning provision based on the Learning Gateway programme. Gary negotiated the contract with Connexions was the chief architect of the organisational and service delivery structure that we used, and successfully bid for £30K of VCS funding to develop our premises. Over the next few years he remained as someone who offered effective oversight to the project on our behalf, as well as helping the management team grow in knowledge and understanding to a place where we could oversee the project ourselves.
 

Indispensible source of knowledge, advice and support

‘Learning Gateway’ became ‘Entry to Employment’ (E2e) in 2003, and the contract for delivery with connexions was duly handed over to Kings Church Trust in 2005. Since that time, Gary has remained an indispensible source of knowledge, advice and support for all aspects of our development as a charity. This has taken shape both as a reactive assistance when we have asked him for it, and as a proactive encouragement to us take the opportunity to develop new projects in response to service user needs. An example of this latter point, in 2006, Gary encouraged us to consider delivering the ACE mentoring Scheme for which he found the funding from Connexions, and negotiated with them on our behalf to set ambitious service delivery targets.
 

True partnership, true friendship

Now as an established charity in our own right with 14 employees and over 40 volunteers, Twenty/Twenty owes an incalculable debt to Gary Richardson. His consultancy has always felt like a true partnership, which has now blossomed into a true friendship. His energetic support, light touch leadership, immense professional knowledge, and his ability to fuel ambition and self belief in those he works with, have inspired us to become what we have become and to reach for what we will become.

Mike Hughes: Charnwood 20:20

Kelly Faulkner: Bedford Preparatory School

I have been delighted by the way in which the Young Enterprise group has got behind this innovative project. Watching them work together as a team, overcome potential barriers to success, distribute roles within the team according to each person's strengths and learn to communicate effectively with adults in order to raise the profile of the project has been a pleasure for the staff and an excellent learning opportunity for the pupils.

Thank you for allowing our school to take part in this exciting event!

Kelly Faulkner: Enrichment Coordinator: Bedford Preparatory School