Mark Cotton Consultancy

27/04/2021

Does your organisation help people build financial resilience? 💸
School for Social Entrepreneurs and Royal London are looking for changemakers working in areas that support financial resilience, such as:
· debt management
· financial tech for good
· access to finance
· climate change
· employment for marginalised groups

The new programme offers free learning, a £10k-30k grant and 1:1 consultancy.

Find out more and apply by 1st June >

https://www.the-sse.org/courses/royal-london-changemakers-programme/

08/11/2019

Happy Friday people. So I’ve been through a bit of a rebrand recently. Check out my new website courtesy of the amazing Media Monkey:

We specialise in providing a range of consultancy services to the social enterprise and charity sector, covering areas such as visioning and strategy development, business planning and financial modelling, fundraising and investment readiness and social impact measurement.

05/07/2019

I did a little interview...
https://grow-media.co.uk/top-stories/mark-cotton-change-landscape-social-enterprise-consultancy/

23/02/2018

My latest blog for Devon Community Foundation....

5 Top Tips to Ensure Your Social Enterprise is Investment Ready

31/12/2017

Get in touch in the new year if you want to discuss strategy development....

Charity leaders are fighting hard to save their organisations. But they also need to think about the future – and how best to deploy the scarce resources they have

06/09/2017

Really enjoyed facilitating a Business Model Canvas Workshop Plymouth University with a group of start-ups on behalf of School for Social Entrepreneurs Dartington today. Fantastic energy in the group and lots of concentration too! 📝📌🖊✏️📚📉📈📊📋

04/08/2017

So today I shall be mostly editing funding applications on behalf of three very different clients in the arts world. So what better place to be for inspiration than Kaleider

11/05/2017

From breakfast meeting at the Column Bakehouse to elevenses meeting at Plymouth Music Zone and then a lunch meeting with Plymouth City Council I'm totally meeting'd out already!

23/03/2017

Heading home after a full on day of strategy development with the University of the First Age. Great vision with a strong leadership team to back it up

https://ufa.org.uk

UFA has worked with over 750,000 young people, trained 5,000 teachers and youth workers and supported 2,000 schools since we started in 1996. While we continue to learn and develop our programmes our fundamental mission, to develop in a young person leadership characteristics that can dramatically i...