• Supporting participatory processes.
• Valuing local and organisational knowledge and expertise.
• Being practical and responsive to the specific contexts in which we work.
• Developing the skills and capacities of those we work with so they can continue into the future….

Community projects:

• Aim to create change or achieve an outcome by working with people.
• Can be based around issues, passions or problems, or be based around place, cultures, ideas, new ventures.…

Consulting means:

• Providing practical help – from advice, tools and ideas, to taking hands-on action.
• Helping people with planning, evaluation, implementation, review, training, research, capacity building, community consultation, doing what they want to do and much more….

Side by Side Community Project Consulting is committed to:

• Effective and timely action and communication.
• Capacity building at all levels of communities and organisations, including passing on skills to ensure that projects live on after we are gone.
• Supporting participatory and inclusive approaches to our work.
• Supporting inter-disciplinary and cross-sectoral collaboration leading to more innovative and effective action.
• Using creative and innovative methods, to make our work with people as interesting and fun as possible.
• Doing what we say we will do, when we say we will do it.

We would like to acknowledge our friend and colleague Liz Orr for helping us name our business… side by side… that’s the way it is, and should be…