Partnerships and Associates
"Flexible, practical, knowledgeable approach, boosted my confidence levels and helped me understand how to approach people in my organisation to get the best outcomes." Ian Johnson, Regeneration Co-ordinator, Wirral Partnership Homes
Cascade has established partnership arrangements with a number of other specialist and trusted consultancies so that we can offer the widest possible range of services to our clients. These include:
Housing Life
By delivering training and coaching packages tailored to the individual needs of their clients, Housng Life help people in housing set and achieve goals and ambitions at work, personally and socially. By helping organisations to review systems and how people interact with them, we enable them to get the best out of their resources. Housing Life help people understand and adjust behaviour and attitude, measure and improve their resilience and mental toughness and boost their confidence so their abilities shine through.
Broadgate Communications
Broadgate Communications is a full service marketing and communications consultancy specialising in local government, housing, property, and construction and associated sectors. Broadgate work in partnership with clients to help them define and deliver their business objectives through structured communications campaigns and initiatives. They design, build and protect clients’ reputations among all key stakeholders from customers and staff, to regulators, governmental organisations and the media at local, regional and national level.
NICE Ltd
NICE is an event booking agency which sources venues for conferences, meetings, training courses, seminars, team building events and social events… and just about anything else that requires a venue. NICE has an excellent relationship with venues across the UK and Europe and by successfully working with these venues on a commission only basis, they provide a totally free service to their clients.
Michael Guest Associates
MGA is a team of housing and related specialists offering consultancy and training services to the independent, public and private sectors.They specialise in consultancy and delivering training programmes for residents, staff and Board Members.
Optimum Interventions
Optimum interventions specialises in advice to a wide range of public sector clients on transformational change aimed at improving the performance and effectiveness of organisations including leadership development, cultural change, service improvement and mentoring and coaching.
Beha Williams Norman Ltd
BWNL provides specialist strategic and financial advice to the social housing sector including treasury management and borrowing strategies.
Peter Simon Partners
Peter Simon specialise in carrying out self assessment of procedural compliance in the social housing sector. This includes external validation of performance reporting systems, health checks and the development of control frameworks.
Channing Hammond
Channing Hammond Resourcing provide HR and Executive Recruitment consultancy in the housing and related sectors. They work with organisations delivering strategic HR solutions on subjects relating to executive appointments, senior management assessment and development, organisational development programmes, remuneration and reward schemes, Board Member assessment and recruitment and career transition programmes.
Astwood Design
Astwood are a design consultancy with a reputation for providing innovative solutions to a range of design issues. Astwood have extensive public sector and housing experience, with commissions for annual reports, DVDS, customer newsletters, brochures, informaiton leaflets, corporate documents and a whole host of other products.
Our Associates
Cascade works regularly with a number of highly experienced associates who have a wide range of differing skills and have operated at executive, director and senior manager levels within social housing organisations. Our associates bring the highest level of professional advice and support to our consultancy and coaching commissions.
Helen Williams
Helen is a learning and development professional who brings a sense of fun and focus to her work as a coach, trainer and facilitator on change, leadership and management development programmes.
Ken Hopkins
Ken who is MBA qualified was formerly an RSL Chief Executive and has held other senior posts in Local Government and the Health Service. He now specialises in providing consultancy services related to performance improvement, organisational development and training.
Celia Hopkins
Celia is a highly motivated and transformational leader, able to build productive relationships with partner organisations and industry regulatory bodies, who has achieved significant turnarounds in the performance of organisations and services.
Samantha Goodwin
Sam is a highly experience housing professional who has developed particular specialisms in providing advice and support to tenant and community groups and in carrying out best value reviews. She is also an experienced trainer and facilitator.
Nick Neale
Nick has a background in IT and was formerly Deputy IT manager for Birmingham City Council. As a consultant he has specialised in the evaluation of IT requirements for RSLs and the subsequent development and implementation of IT strategies.
Julian Penfold
Julian has a background as an auditor and tenant participation, specialising in working with residents groups, developing mystery shopping, setting up Tenant Management Organisations and carrying out community consultation exercises.