Consultancy - What we can offer you

Capacity UK provides consultancy services for training and employment organisations, including bid writing, project management, centre accreditation and qualification development.  Our staff team has an excellent track record in securing and managing European funding.  We are able to support training organisations in achieving accredited centre status with recognised awarding bodies  and can also facilitate the development of bespoke qualifications in response to learner needs and employer requirements

 Bid Writing, Project Management, Centre Accreditation, Qualification Development

  • Our staff team has wide ranging experience across a wide range of key European funding programmes, including Erasmus+, European Social Fund (ESF), European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Integration Fund (EIF). We have an excellent track record of developing and submitting high quality funding applications that score highly and thus secure funding contracts for our clients.

    Our staff team work with clients to identify suitable funding and develop funding applications based around projects and services designed around the needs and aspirations of their learners and service users.

    We provide a fully bespoke service and all applications are written 'from scratch' to ensure that they ethos, aims, key strengths and organisational capacity of the applicant organisation to ensure that, once funding is secured, the project is realistic, achievable and manageable.

    Bid writing services can be provided on the basis of a fee paid for development, writing submitting a funding application or 'no-win, no fee' arrangements with a either a small percentage of funding secured payable or an agreed ongoing role for Capacity UK - for example supporting the management and delivery of the proposed project

  • We have a total of over 30 years experience of developing, managing and delivering European projects within our staff team and can support all aspects of project management. This can range from a comprehensive service providing all aspects of management throughout a project life-cycle to assistance with specific areas.

    For example: developing and implementing administrative and financial systems that evidence project activities and expenditure in line with the requirements of the relevant funding programme; training your staff in the management and administration of European projects; and preparing for audit.

    Project management services can be provided on the basis of an agreed rate for days worked by individual members of staff, fixed fees for specific pieces of work or even seconding our staff to your organisation to support longer term work.

  • Capacity UK is accredited to deliver vocational, literacy & numeracy and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) qualifications with City & Guilds, Trinity College London and Learning Resource Network. We can support both new and existing training organisations in achieving Accredited Centre status with these Awarding Bodies, as well as a wealth of others, and can also facilitate qualification accreditation process to enable providers to expand their range of courses.

    Services include : developing policies, procedures and processes required for centre accreditation applications; development and submission of centre accreditation applications; and providing qualified and experienced staff to support key functions such as Internal Quality Assurance. Centre and qualification accreditation services are available on a fixed fee basis payable on achievement of accredited status.

  • Capacity London is the lead partner for the ECVET for the Creative Industries (EfCI) Strategic Partnership project funded by Key Action 2 of the Erasmus+ programme. As part of this project we are working with Learning Resource Network to develop the Level 3 Award in Entrepreneurship for the Creative Industries, which is due to be recognised by Ofqual and become available for delivery from January 2017. This brand new qualification has been specifically designed to support learners interested in developing their career within Creative Industries in other European countries, especially people undertaking work experience or volunteering placements abroad. As a result, we are ideally placed to support training providers in developing new, bespoke qualifications that respond to the needs of their learners and the requirements of employers and - crucially - working with Awarding Bodies to accredit newly developed qualifications. Item description