Clients

Nottingham City Council

As part of their strategic review of Leisure Centre provision in the city, Grey Panther Associates Ltd undertook a critique of a report, produced for the Advice and Scrutiny Committee by Eversheds and the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE). Our critique highlighted a number of potential issues arising from the report, and identified areas requiring much greater consideration before strategic decisions could be taken.

Subsequently, in 2008/9, Grey Panther Associates Ltd were engaged by Nottingham City Council's Community Services, to work with CBF Gymnasiums Ltd - a social enterprise operating a Community Gym in the Highbury Vale area of the City. The brief was to undertake an assessment of the likely sustainability of the project beyond Year 1, and help the organisation to:

·        Develop a 3-year Business Plan for the project;

·        Produce a ‘Making The Case’ document, to support the Business Case and future funding applications;

·        Prepare funding bids for the project.

East Midlands Development Agency

Grey Panther Associates Ltd were commissioned by the East Midlands Development Agency (emda) to undertake the evaluation of 42 applications from providers in the East Midlands Region, to become Pre-Olympic Training Camp venues for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

The completed evaluation was presented to the Olympic Delivery Authority(ODA) in London in May 2007, followed some supplementary work. The eventual outcome was that 24 of the 42 venues were included in the ODA's list of Approved Venues.

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club / County Board

During late 2008, Grey Panther Associates Ltd were engaged to work with the Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and Nottinghamshire Cricket Board, to produce a 2009 - 2013 County Cricket Facilities Strategy for the County. The Strategy was produced on time, and received critical acclaim from both within the County and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).

Regeneration East Midlands

Grey Panther Associates Ltd have delivered 'Effective Funding for Sport' workshops for Regeneration East Midlands since 2007, helping sporting organisations identify and access funding opportunities in an increasingly competitive grants sector.

Nottinghamshire County Council Sports Development

Bassetlaw District Council

Central Education & Training

Central Education & Training is a Further Education provider, based in Nottingham.

Grey Panther Associates Ltd were commissioned to develop funding bids for a Community Sports Development project, based at the Nottingham Community College site on Carlton Road, in an area of high social and recreational deprivation Nottingham. The project comprised of renovating sports facilities, bringing them back into community use, and appointing a Sports Development Outreach Team to work with the deprived communities in the St Anns and Sneinton areas of the city.

We were successful in obtaining a £500,000 Capital Award and a £169,191 Revenue Award from Sport England's 'Active England' programme, and £134,500 Capital grant aid from Nottingham City Council's Neighbourhood Renewal Fund.

The KK Sports & Leisure Centre opened to the public in September 2005, and is still providing much needed sports facilities to deprived communities today.

Chimera Consulting (Regeneration) Ltd

Grey Panther Associates Ltd worked with Chimera Consulting (Regeneration) Ltd, to deliver training to local authority staff across the East Midlands Region in the use of Sport England's 'Active Places Power' Strategic Facility Planning programme. We were one of only 2 companies delivering this training across England. As a result of this work, the number of East Midlands local authorities signed up to use the online programme increased from under 25% to almost 80%.

Grey Panther Associates Ltd have also worked with Chimera Consulting to provide project-based support to Sport England's East Midlands office, in context of the Active Sports Partnerships; Active Communities Development Fund (ACDF) projects; the Awards for All (A4A) programme; Green Spaces Playing Field projects and latterly, developing a systematic approach to funding and compliance for the emerging County Sports Partnerships.

John Palmer Associates (West Bridgford)

Grey Panther Associates Ltd provided funding and facility development advice into a feasibility study undertaken by John Palmer Associates (West Bridgford) in respect of an area of new playing fields for Donisthorpe Primary School in North West Leicestershire.

VOICE - East Midlands

VOICE - East Midlands are a voluntary sector organisation, founded in 2000, to enable the East Midlands Black & Minority Ethnic (BME) Voluntary and Community Sector to influence the regional agenda for the benefit of BME organisations and communities. Grey Panther Associates Ltd delivered training to a new network of BME Funding Mentors, who help small voluntary groups from BME communities access funding for development.

Kingswood Local Alchemy

Kingswood Local Alchemy is based on the Kingswood Estate in Corby, Northamptonshire, and is one of four initial pilot Local Alchemy projects in the East Midlands. Grey Panther Associates Ltd were contracted to undertake a feasibility study into the possible development of a mobile skate park facility by people from the Estate, as a Social Enterprise.

This was followed by the development of a Business Plan for the project.

Creative Partners

Creative Partners are involved as facilitators for two of the four Local Alchemy pilot projects in the East Midlands. Grey Panther Associates Ltd provided a critique of a feasibility study to establish EMASS (East Midlands Academy of Sport and Science) in The Leicester North West Local Alchemy area (Beaumont Leys).