0 assessing the needs of different places and devising multi-stranded programmes of support to help them
0 collaborating with other place-based funders and foundations to achieve shared goals
0 establishing joint funding programmes since 2015
0 managing relationships with delivery partners and impact evaluation partners, and developing with them flexible processes and systems
0 working strategically with local and national partners, government departments and infrastructure support organisations to establish funding and support programmes for communities
0 co-founded bristol food producers with £49k of green capital, establishing a producer-led organization to support up urban and peri-urban food enterprises in bristol
0 drafting a pioneer share offer and a crowdfunder: £23k raised from community pledges in 4-days to bid at land auction
0 establishing a community benefit society to support the learning and careers of new entrants into sustainable horticulture and to protect and provide access to farmland near bristol
0 establishing good relationships with local, regional & national networks and advisors and securing finance
0 responsible for strategic development, business planning, partnership development, market research and fund raising
0 researching and writing market opportunity reports, site evaluations, pre-planning applications, invitations to tender and business plans
0 researching, business planning and stakeholder relationship development to set up eco-tourism social enterprises
0 working with multiple stakeholders and managing diverse interests, including philanthropic investors, public and private landowners (mainly the national trust), local planning authorities and ecologists
0 managing knowledge networks and communities of practice, a £1million budget and a team of 6 part-time people including remote-working regional advisors
0 soil association, bristol
0 strategic planning and future scoping, setting up reporting and evaluation procedures including an external advisory group which we later spun off to manage the future csa network
0 working closely with 10 national project partners