Identified the need for, attracted the funding to and set up a brand new international organisation The International Centre of Excellence for Community Schools – convened the Board with members drawn from across the world. Prepared all paperwork, policies etc, set up process for recruiting Chief Executive.

International quality standards for community schools is an ongoing project facilitated by one of our consultants. This has involved managing multi-national teams of experts, writing a self assessment framework, testing this with schools, analysing the results, writing and leading an international team of trainers and writing training materials.

See communityschoolstandards.org

Advising on the development of community learning centres in community schools in Siberia. This is a current project involving one of our consultants acting as a mentor to a development manager at ContinYou. Our consultant attended meetings in Moscow and Siberia and ran a three day training session for 12 headteachers on supporting young people to manage community led projects.

".......Dear Chris, I am writing to thank you for the project management and event facilitation work that you have done for ContinYou’s pilot of the Skilled for Health programme with Warwickshire Probation Service. As with any groundbreaking work such as this where new operational partnerships have to be built in order to provide a new service for a client group, there have been many challenges. These have been met and the project has been a success because of your varied skills, tact and careful planning.

Many thanks again
Jonathan Berry
Executive Director, Health Improvement. ContinYou....."

Working with the Queen Alia Fund for Development in Jordan trained staff to work on women’s income generation projects.

Commissioned by World Wide Fund for Nature worked with colleagues in Peshawar, Pakistan to set up community led environmental projects.

Appointed by the Field Studies Council to work in two TACIS projects offering training in Ukraine for community led environmental projects in Donetsk and Bashtanka.

Leading several international training teams to deliver training to people from upwards of 50 countries on the following topics: intergenerational learning, empowerment of older people, introducing schools to a self assessment framework on quality standards.

Working across the world



with all kinds of people