Products and Services 2010

In hard times we all need to get on the "Inside Track" together!

Inside Track helps you understand the questions and come up with the right solutions for your organisation. As an independent network working with experienced co-operators and entrepreneurs, we can help you find innovative and alternative ways to achieve your aims.

Are you a...

• Voluntary organisation looking for sustainable funding
• Public Sector manager, officer, politician or member of staff wondering what Social Enterprise, Co-operation and Mutuality can offer
• an existing member of a Hospital Trust, Leisure Trust or Workers Co-operative wanting to work more effectively with existing members or to recruit new members
• Community Activist with a business idea that would make money whilst benefiting the community
• Member or membership organisation wanting to make the most of your expertise and share it with others
• Training organisation, University, School or College seeking student placements, offer students more information and knowledge about co-operatives, social enterprises and mutuals

Inside Track provides an independent problem solving service for people and organisations needing to find out quickly what alternatives there are to what they are doing already.

In these times it is important to:

• Value naivety or "cracking daft"
• See the wood for the trees (Pathologies of Obviousness)
• Reframe problems which don't go away
• Distinguish "cant" from "don't want to"
• Achieve transparency
• Predict the unpredictable
• Understand negativity as "the problem is."

Inside Track provides an independent problem solving service for people and organisations needing to find out quickly what alternatives there are to what they are doing already.

What Does Inside Track offer?

In a time of change we offer...

Understanding the market through "Heretical Guides"...

1. Community Cohesion policy and what it really means
2. Further Education Policy- what are Colleges up to?
3. Social Enterprise Policy
4. The problem with the unemployed
5. What is a "BME"

Best practice "Stories from the Coal Face" (learning from our mistakes)...

1. Life in a Social Enterprise
2. Running a Community Centre
3. Imprisoned Tongues
4. Working with Volunteers
5. Encouraging Participation

Up to date information, Independent Briefings: "What does this mean for us."

1. Getting Britain Working
2. Breakthrough Britain
3. Identity politics and public Policy
4. The Big Society
5. Faith and Social Capital
6. Faith and Management
7. Community Organising
8. Community Development

Need help with making less to go further? "How feasible is it" to set up social enterprises to run.

1. Parks
2. Library Service
3. Youth Service
4. Home Care
5. Health Information
6. Environmental Services
7. Your Issue?

Training Programme
In partnership with co-operatives and enterprises, we offer a range of experiences, including.

New Starts: Get Going

• Planning - Products & Services, Finance, Governance
• Setting up - Incorporation
• Designing the Service - Testing products & services
• Personnel - Recruiting and Managing staff/volunteers
• Making a Profit - Finance, including investment
• Contracts - What is on offer? How to win?
• Quality Assurance - Policies and procedures

Existing Organisations: Managing Change

• Designing new products and services
• Find a fund to fit? Creating funding plans
• Managing external funded projects
• Delivering work based learning
• Marketing
• Managing Volunteers
• Transition from Volunteer to Entrepreneur
• Encouraging Co-operation and Entrepreneurs
• Campaigning

Available through group or one-to-one activity

Shadow Director Mentoring
Live business to business problem solving. Sit down with people who have "done it" and devise solutions to...

• Personnel: recruitment, induction, training including apprenticeship
• Marketing and promotion: diversification, the marketing mix
• Fundraising: identifying funding streams, assisting applications
• Customer Service: awareness raising, enhancing
• Product and service development: innovation in the new environment
• Quality assurance: effective but non bureaucratic

Delivered by Associates who are entrepreneurs, trainers and researchers.

Contact Us
For more information please contact Mick Sheldon on 0161 4480788 / 07977 452676 or email insidetrackeuro@sheldon51.co.uk

Inside Track Euro Ltd - Consultancy & Training Rates 2010

Training
ITE rates are based on an average full day training (7 hours) or half day (3.5 hours), which included breaks. Rates apply to standard 'off the shelf' courses. If content is to be tailored to match your specific needs, consultancy rates will be applied for programme development.

Consultancy
ITE rates apply on a 'per day, per staff member' basis, where organisations opt for a package of one to one support. We will work with you to find the most appropriate rates and staff member.

Notes
Please note that rates are for staff time only and exclusive of the following:

• VAT
• Direct travel costs (public transport or car mileage @ 38p per mile).
• Subsistence
• Overnight accommodation (£100)
• Venue hire
• Catering for session participants
• Additional costs, such as sign language interpretation

* Annual turnover £20,000 per annum or less, may include "in kind" payments