What’s different about development support?

  • We’re small, so you get personal attention and value for money.
  • We have lots of experience in community settings and excellent people skills– so you can trust us with your clients, staff and partners.
  • We specialise in informal, ethnographic research and evaluation.
  • We use recognized methods to collect, sort, analyse and write up data – giving you confidence in our findings.
  • With a background in visual arts and community development, you get engaging, creative approaches that get the best out of people.

Talk to us about

  • Understanding and improving the experience your service users have
  • Helping your organisation to become more inclusive for vulnerable clients
  • Working with your stakeholders to evaluate projects
  • Seeing how you measure up against young people’s expectations
  • Using interactive visual exercises to plan, review or communicate in new ways
Development support
helps you listen to
people and understand
what that means
for your business.
We're talking tailor
made solutions that
really work.
  We can help identify
areas for improvement,
or those critical 'success
factors' in your service
or project.
  Get some fresh thinking
and experience when it
comes to developing
funding bids. Shape up
your marketing and
communication with
service users. Review
your progress through
some useful analysis,
and more.
 
If you are responsible for delivering
public services or running community
projects, you want to know what you
do is relevant to service users and
you also need to involve them in
meaningful ways. From time to time,
calling in external help is useful –
so if you’re looking, then consider
development support. Speak to us and find out why so many organisations just like yours have benefited from our friendly, professional service.
Development Support can help

Mental Health
Community Arts
Neighbourhood renewal
Youth & Connexions services
Drugs and Alcohol Services
Early Years
Extended Services through Schools
Tenant participation

Ian Robson
BA (Hons), MSc.

Ian has over 15 years experience in the community, voluntary and statutory sectors with particular experience in Children and Young People's services and community development. Together with
development support colleagues, he
specialises in using creative techniques to get people talking. He combines an understanding of your business, creative approaches and the ability to analyse messages from your service users into information you can use to develop services and strategy. [more info]

We would love to hear from you.

t 07875 782479
e ian@developmentsupport.co.uk