Capability, evidence and strategy for localised sustainability
Every service applies context-sensitive design. Choose a single service or combine several into a programme.
Sustainable Trustee
A development and certification pathway for trustees and board members of charities, foundations, endowments and social enterprises.
Boards set direction, approve budgets and carry legal responsibility, yet many trustees take on the role with little preparation. Sustainable Trustee builds the knowledge and judgement to govern well and to keep long-term social, environmental and financial sustainability at the centre of board decisions.
- FoundationThe trustee role: duties, conflicts of interest, reading financial statements and working with management.
- PractitionerStrategy, risk, fundraising oversight and impact. Asking the right questions in the boardroom.
- Board-ReadyChairing, committee leadership, sustainability reporting and board evaluation.
- FellowMentoring new trustees, sector leadership and contributing cases to the programme.
Suited to
New and experienced trustees, board chairs and the executives who work with boards.
Format
Cohort-based modules online or in person, built around real governance cases from the participants’ own sector.
What participants receive
Certification at each level, a personal development plan and practical board tools.
The SDGs Game
A facilitated simulation that turns the 17 Goals into decisions participants remember.
Teams manage a city, an organisation or a region over a simulated decade. Budgets are limited, events arrive without warning, and every choice moves several Goals at once. A structured debrief connects what happened in the game to the participants’ own context and plans.
The challenge
Most people know the SDGs as a list of icons. Few have experienced how the Goals interact, compete and reinforce one another.
Our approach
A game designed with serious games specialists, adapted to the sector and setting of each group, followed by a facilitated debrief.
What you receive
Facilitation, all game materials and a short report summarising the group’s choices and lessons.
Leadership programmes
Practical learning for the people responsible for delivering sustainability.
- Executive briefings: focused sessions for leadership teams on sustainability strategy, reporting and risk
- Professional courses: localisation, theory of change, impact measurement and stakeholder engagement
- Community leaders programme: social sustainability leadership built around a live project in the participants’ own community
The challenge
Sustainability often sits with a few specialists while the people who make daily decisions lack the tools to act.
Our approach
Short, applied programmes built on real cases, with every participant working on a challenge from their own organisation.
What you receive
A tailored curriculum, facilitation, participant materials and a completion certificate.
Community Needs Assessment
A structured study of what a community needs, which needs matter most and where your organisation can make the greatest difference.
- ScopeDefine the community, the questions and the decisions the assessment must inform. Map stakeholders.
- ReviewAnalyse existing statistics, research and programme records.
- ListenSurveys, interviews, focus groups and community sessions designed to reach under-represented groups.
- PrioritiseRank needs by severity, reach and feasibility, and map who is already responding.
- RecommendPrioritised needs profile, intervention options and baseline indicators.
The challenge
Programmes are often designed around assumptions or funder priorities rather than evidence of local need.
Our approach
Mixed methods, read through the five lenses of context, with community participation at every stage.
What you receive
An assessment report, a priority matrix, recommended interventions and a baseline for monitoring and evaluation.
SDG Localisation Review
An independent assessment of how well your strategy and programmes connect global goals to local reality.
We review your strategy, programmes and indicators against the SDGs, relevant national priorities and the evidence of local need, then show where the fit is strong, where it is weak and what to change.
The challenge
Many organisations can map their work to the SDGs on paper, but struggle to show that it responds to local priorities.
Our approach
Document review, stakeholder interviews and analysis through the five lenses of context-sensitive design.
What you receive
A localisation scorecard, a gap analysis and a prioritised improvement plan.
Strategy & impact
From priorities to a plan, and from a plan to results you can evidence.
- Sustainability strategy: priorities, targets and a realistic roadmap aligned with national strategies
- Theory of change: a clear logic from activities to outcomes, tested with stakeholders
- Impact measurement: a focused set of indicators and reporting that boards and funders trust
- Implementation support: hands-on help to launch, review and adapt initiatives
The challenge
Strategies are often ambitious on paper but hard to deliver or measure in practice.
Our approach
Co-designed with your team and grounded in evidence of local need and capacity.
What you receive
A strategy document, theory of change, indicator framework and implementation plan.
How an engagement runs
- ConversationAn initial call to understand your context and objectives.
- ScopingWe agree the questions, stakeholders and timeline.
- ProposalA clear plan with deliverables and fees.
- DeliveryRegular reviews with your team throughout.
- Learning reviewWhat worked, what changed and what comes next.