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Prowess consultancy

Prowess offers a range of specialist consultancy services which are designed to enable members to develop both their organisational capacity and an effective range of support to women-owned businesses.

If you plan to introduce or further develop enterprise support, financial services, general advice or any kind of assistance to women in business, Prowess Consultancy can help you to:

• Review the effectiveness of your current services
• Attract more women clients through effective promotional materials and outreach
• Develop women-friendly business training, counselling and networking programmes
• Train and develop staff to understand and meet the needs of women-owned businesses
• Map services available for women-owned businesses in your area
• Establish effective equal opportunities and gender mainstreaming strategies
• Work with key stakeholders towards developing an effective strategy and network of provision for women-owned businesses in your area
• Support your Chief Executive or senior staff with the help of an executive coach or mentor

And we can also help you to:

• Develop and achieve an effective fundraising strategy
• Work towards long-term organisational sustainability
• Develop and train your Directors
• Network with like-minded organisations in Europe and further afield
• Undertake broad based research

Our Approach

We aim to promote excellence in all aspects of women’s enterprise development and recognize that this needs commitment from the leaders of support organisations. Before undertaking a significant consultancy programme we would want to ensure that such a commitment exists.

Prowess will work in partnership with your organisation’s key person or team, where appropriate, to devise and deliver significant programmes. Our aim is to leave you with the internal capacity to sustain good practice when our input is complete.

In addition to more traditional consultancy methods, we are able to offer an email service in appropriate cases, e.g. programme planning.

We will also be delighted to provide speakers to talk to key strategic groups. (We may ask you to meet our travel costs if necessary).

Our Consultants

Prowess has established a high level team of consultants, with almost 50 years experience between them of working in this field. We have 2 former CEOs of women’s enterprise organisations, accomplished researchers, programme development and women’s business training and counselling specialists as well as consultants with excellent track records in organisational capacity building, business planning and fundraising in this sector.

Particular areas of specialism include:

Women’s enterprise project development: promotion and outreach, mentoring, networks, all levels of training, microfinance, investment-ready and business angels, on-line services and business counselling.

Capacity building: staff development and training, social audits, organizational review and development, assembling complex financial packages (revenue and capital), business planning and fund-raising.

Research: Evaluations, impact assessments, strategic overviews, questionnaire construction, mapping, consultation meetings and focus groups, wide range of broad based research.

Partnership development: Developing strategic networks and partnership, including trans-national partnerships.

Policy & Strategy: Development of regional and national strategy, advocacy and lobbying.

If you would like to discuss any aspect of the Prowess Consultancy Service further, please contact us for an informal chat: 01603 762355 or email at admin@prowess.org.uk