Who are we?

inspiracion is a company committed to providing high quality client-focused management and consultancy services to the charity, voluntary, private and public sector. is a recently formed company committed to providing high quality client-focused management and consultancy services to the charity, voluntary, private and public sector.

Associate Consultant: Cathy Norris

Cathy Norris has extensive experience of working in both local authorities and the voluntary sector and of research and evaluation. Cathy is familiar with using a range of interview techniques and conducting telephone and postal surveys, workshops and focus group

Cathy always aim for high standards and strive to provide the best possible service to my client. She has a passion for tackling poverty, alleviating suffering and providing good quality information for all.

Cathy's consultancy experience includes working for grant giving trusts, conducting evaluations, business planning and fundraising for voluntary groups. Cathy carried out a user review of Macmillan’s Directory of Information Materials for people living with cancer. She has worked for a range of organisations including the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, The Roundhouse, The Big Lottery and the London Borough of Haringey.Cathy has experience of working in managerial roles in the voluntary and statutory sectors serving multi-cultural areas with significant deprivation. This includes managing a voluntary sector community centre; heading up a neighbourhood renewal community development work team and a housing regeneration consultation and engagement team. She is experienced in all aspects of grants giving, service reviews, community development and organisational capacity building. Cathy also has substantial experience of working with the voluntary advice sector and have carried out an evaluation of advice services for the London Borough of Camden.

More recently her work has focussed on housing regeneration strategy and practice, including conducting a strategic consultation across 33,000 households and developing a local approach to estate based regeneration consultation and engagement.

Cathy has a BA (Hons) in the History of Modern Art, Design and Film Studies, a Post Graduate Certificate in Community and Youth Work and am a Prince 2 project management practitioner. She believes in lifelong learning and self-development and continue to take up training opportunities: selection interviewing; customer care; management training modules.

Principal Consultant - Mick Denton

inspiracion was founded by Mick Denton and has been built on the successes and achievements of over 20 years working in the charity, voluntary, private and public sector, both as a freelance consultant and in paid employment.

Mick has extensive experience of working in both the voluntary, public and private sector, in particular working with voluntary sector organisations and disadvantaged groups to develop their capacity and achieve their full potential. Mick’s consultancy work has included:

Developing the capacity of voluntary organisations and groups to enable them to achieve their full potential through engagement, facilitation and strategic planning
Development of business and strategic plans, with an emphasis on clarity and clearly defined outputs and outcomes
Providing interim and project management for local infrastructure organisations, with a focus on implementing good practice and governance
Track record of fundraising from competitive funding streams, both nationally and at a European level
Implementing effective financial and monitoring systems for ensuring organisations meet funding requirements and achieve sustainability
Using facilitation and community involvement in problem solving and decision-making
Working with and establishing partnerships and networks at a local, national and European level, especially in the area of European funding

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Associate Consultant: Cathy Norris

Principal Consultant - Mick Denton