Expert consultancy
Whether it's a plan for your building or a vision for your whole community, we can help you create a clear strategy and business plan that helps you achieve your goals, while engaging key stakeholders, funders and your community. We have experience of all aspects of business planning including feasibility studies, market analysis, financial modelling and impact measurement.
We can help you shift behaviour amongst local people, engage them in your plan, and bring your community together to tackle climate change. We can help with everything from one-off engagement exercises on specific projects, to embedding community engagement practices throughout your organisation.
Funding is vital. We can help you with grants, loans, community shares, contracts, and trading income. We work closely with the Lottery, charity loan providers and many local authorities. We can help you bid for grants or contracts and think about more innovative forms of finance like community shares.
We can help you build relationships, set up a network, lobby, and work with others at a local, regional or national level to achieve change. We have relationships with many local authorities and expert climate organisations like Centre for Sustainable Energy and Community Energy England.
We can help you measure the impact of your project or services, so you can evidence the difference you make to funders and investors. We can help you develop your theory of change, collect the right quantitative and qualitative data, and showcase your impact.
Whether it's a well-designed report, a website, media, social media, or a whole marketing strategy, we can help you tell the story of your project in a way that resonates with others and encourages them to take action.
Join our climate specialist group
Want to talk to others who've done something similar? From retrofitting to sustainable food networks, our members are at the forefront of the community response to the climate crisis. Join our climate specialist group today to learn and swap ideas with your peers.
How have we helped?
FAQs
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Can you fund our project?
Currently our funding programme is Neighbourhood planning. Outside of this programme we aren’t generally able to help you with funding, though we are campaigning for more support for community climate action.
Visit our My Community website to find out more about funding available.
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What are you doing about your own emissions?
Locality is committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2040 from a baseline in 2019/20 of 33 tCO2e. Find out more here.
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How much does consultancy cost?
This can vary depending on the project and your organisation’s needs. Please contact us to discuss and we can give you a quote.
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Who will provide the support?
Locality works nationally but is local in its approach. We have staff based across the country who have in-depth knowledge of the local operating environment including relationships with local authorities and community organisations.
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What makes you different to standard private sector consultants?
Locality staff draw from the experience of over 2,000 community organisations, through our membership programme. Our staff have supported organisations delivering a wide range of activities including energy efficiency in community buildings and housing, renewable energy projects, furniture re-use, food growing, climate action planning and many others.