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Leicester
CityBus |
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Co-ordination of joint management
and employee buy-out of former municipal bus company involving
600 employees and £2.5 million financial package. |
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Result: Management
Buy-Out with Employee Share Ownership Plan. |
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British
Gas Industrial & Commercial Servicing |
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Advice on legal/financial
structuring of buy-out involving 150 employees nationally
and 20 in northern region. |
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Result: National Employee
Buy-out and establishment of new regional company Gas Services
Northern Limited. |
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Newcastle
Instrumental Music Teaching Service |
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Co-ordination of externalisation
of former local authority music teaching department. |
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Result: Development of the
North East Music Co-operative, now the largest of its kind
in the country; subsequent advice to similar successful externalisations
in Swindon, Grimsby, etc. |
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North
East Care |
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Feasibility study, business planning
and company design for a new co-operative care provider in
Northumberland. |
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Result:Establishment of
North East Care Limited,a domiciliary care co-operative which
now employs over 40 people. |
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The
Exchange |
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Feasibility study for a new 3million
arts centre, The Exchange, in Sunderland, and subsequent restructuring
of the centre managing organisation, Arts Resource Limited. |
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Results: Project in development;
building conversion of The Exchange scheduled for completion
in May 2000. |
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Earth
Balance |
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Successful funding
bids to the National Lottery, Community Care Development Programme,
Horizon strand of the ESF Employment Programme, mainstream
ESF and ERDF and several trusts and foundations; Project Management
of the 600,000 transnational Horizon project developing social
firms for people with disabilities. |
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Result: Establishment
and growth of one of the largest voluntary sector projects
in the North of England.
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