Welcome to Achill Management

Achill Management is a new kind of consultancy – a network of individuals working in partnership. We bring together a team of highly skilled consultants, with experience across a wide range of sectors and organisations, who work together to deliver the strategic, financial and operational solutions our clients are seeking.

Our consultants have worked in major commercial organisations, for grant makers and grant givers, have led not for profit and charitable organisations. They have also been in business, run social enterprises and led international project teams in countries across the world.

Because we offer a range of skills and experience we can offer our clients the specific and tailored support they need to be more effective, efficient and successful.

We don’t believe in a one size fits all approach. We have found our clients have different needs which require individual solutions. We believe in sharing best practice to devise and implement solutions that work – using both our collective knowledge, and transferred learning, to ensure all our consultancy projects “make a difference”.

Please read about our latest clients and projects, check out the cases studies from recent projects and do call us so we can discuss ways in which Achill Management can help you.

Latest Case Study

Supporting Service Development

A small local children’s charity was looking to develop its site to provide new buildings and services in a very deprived area in South East England. A development study was commissioned to evaluate the demand for services and the feasibility of taking them forward.
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News

Are you ready for commissioning? How to make the Big Society Agenda work for you

As more Third Sector organisations are asked to tender and bid for contracts to provide services as part of the government’s “Big Society” agenda CEOs and Trustee Boards face a new world of commissioning and procurement that they may never have experienced before. To support organisations to deal with these challenges we have launched a new service -  The SMART Programme designed to help equip you with the skills to be more entrepreneurial, more commission and tender focused and better able to succeed in the competitive marketplace. The SMART Programme, run in conjunction with our partners Red Ochre, the leading social enterprise consultancy, covers key topics such as strategic planning, public procurement bidding strategy, risk management, sub contracting and joint working.


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Challenge Network to get £7m this year for National Citizen Service 27 Jan 2012, 10:56 am

Civil society minister Nick Hurd says Cabinet Office gave £1.2m to the charity last year

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Social Investment Business to launch £10m pilot funds 27 Jan 2012, 12:29 am

If they are successful, says Jonathan Jenkins of the SIB, he will attempt to raise up to £50m more

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Testimonials

Our organisation benefited significantly from Amanda’s two day workshop on procurement and working in a consortium. The style was very appropriate and the learning was considerable, we were left with an action plan which will ensure we move forward as an organisation

Andrew Wilson – Workforce Development Manager – Mental Health Charity

Achill Management demonstrated detailed knowledge of the Voluntary Sector and of the challenges it faces. In the development session with our board and management we explored not only the opportunities and obstacles that face us but were challenged and encouraged to find our own solutions… a very worthwhile exercise” Chair Guildford CAB

‘In 2007 Amanda Carpenter of Achill Management worked with Young Suffolk as part of a Charities Aid Foundation sponsored partnership project that developed the capacity of four small youth organisations to work collaboratively. Amanda worked in the most skilled and sensitive way to facilitate a partnership that is still delivering today.’
Dr Bud Simpkin, Chief Executive, Young Suffolk