Sostenga is a partnership of experienced consultants and trainers, with a wide range of practical grass roots, activist and management experience both in the UK and abroad, who provide a wide range of services to community groups and voluntary organisations.

We work from a community development perspective and all of our work is based upon the values of community development and informed by its practice principles.

We can provide research, support, training and consultancy services to most parts of England.

We offer bespoke services as well as adaptations of existing programmes. We can offer accredited and non-accredited training programmes at different levels – from tasters to full award programmes. We also design training programmes.

Our general areas of expertise are:

• Community development
• Organisational development

We have particular expertise in:

• Working with refugees
• Environmental action

Our current specialist projects are about:

• Participatory budgeting
• Impact evaluation

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