About Sostenga

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

Between us we have many years experience in community development work, running organisations, being on management committees… We are all hands on practitioners who keep up to date with developments affecting the third sector and are actively involved in our communities and regional networks.

We can offer:

• Community development work and training
• Creative approaches and techniques
• Support, supervision and mentoring
• Event planning and facilitation
• Funding strategies, planning and bid writing
• Evaluation, reviewing and monitoring
• Project management, including community buildings
• Policy development
• Selection and recruitment processes
• Training course design and delivery
• Writing of trainers resource packs
• Development of quality and management information systems
• Network development
• Training needs analysis
• Management skills training
• Research
• Design and photographic services
• Web design using free software
• Making your group or organisation more environmentally sustainable

Sostenga uses associates as well as core members of the team when completing projects and contracts. To find out more about associates and how to become an associate member click here