f2f trading

FSquared Foundation Trading supports third sector organisations to build business strength and capability. This helps our clients maximise social value and improve outcomes. We are a consultancy company with a difference - as a team we have lived and breathed it. We all have previous lives in senior positions in social enterprises and charities. Our consultancy work is grounded in real life. We benefit from the market understanding and expertise of FSquared Limited and its links with the private and public sectors. This gives us clear insight about how to engage the private sector in the delivery of your mission. Most importantly, we have years of experience of trying to make a difference to society and the people who get left at the margins.  We understand the huge responsibility this places on organisations to be there today, tomorrow and long into the future. We help organisations to achieve long term sustainability. We support organisations to:

• Respond to market changes and opportunities
• Become more financially independent and sustainable
• Collaborate and  develop healthy partnerships and consortia
• Re-vision, reorganise and restructure
• Grow emotionally intelligent leadership teams
• Innovate and create new service responses

We work with each client to understand the issues, challenges and opportunities and design a bespoke programme of support, drawing on the diverse range of skills and talents available across the team. Our services include:

• Tender and Bid Support Services – need to develop differentiated winning bids? We facilitate workshops to shape project ideas, write and co-ordinate submissions, review and advise on tendering approaches and build in-house capacity.
• Business Planning and Development – looking to the future? We can help you to develop plans for the future. When we say “business plan” we don’t mean a dusty document we mean a useful tool which will help you to move forward. We can help you to develop income generation strategies which identify enterprise and trading opportunities and engage the private sector
• Fundraising – got a new idea or struggling with ongoing sustainability? We support the development of effective funding strategies. We can help you identify funding sources, develop funder relationships and write fantastic funding bids.
• Creative Facilitation – need to re-think, refresh or innovate? We design and facilitate workshops which give organisations the space to explore new ideas. These can build on your experience, engage service users and bring in external perspectives to promote innovation in co-designed service and projects.
• Organisational Change and Development – facing challenging times? We can help you to respond proactively to changing markets. We use re-visioning workshops to help organisations consolidate whilst identifying new opportunities. Organisational change is never easy and we can support leaders and staff through coaching and mentoring, critical friend support and Action Learning Programmes which engage and empower teams.
• Successful Partnerships and Consortia – need to punch above your weight? We support the development of partnerships and consortia. We can help you to identify the right partners; establish effective collaborative working relationships and get ready to bid for work.
• Measuring and Evaluation – need to prove your worth? We can help you to  develop systems and approaches to demonstrate and measure impact that work you, for beneficiaries and service users, and for funders

FSquared Foundation Trading is a not-for-profit organisation which gives 100% of its profits to the FSquared Foundation. Organisations that work with us benefit from high quality services which draw on the breadth and depth of our experience, our unique blend of skills and talents, real life business acumen and our fresh perspective.  We then support the FSquared Foundation to explore new ways of working which help the sector to make the most of resources for those in greatest need. It’s a win-win.

If you want to know more about FSquared Foundation Trading and our services please telephone us on 0161-273-5959.