Three service areas

What we actually do

We work in three places where capability is usually missing: the skills to deliver, the specialist knowledge the work needs, and the structures that keep a community initiative alive. Each one is a full service with a named outcome.

Jump to 01 Training and workshops 02 Expert network 03 Social development

Training and workshops

Facilitated sessions that leave a group able to do something it could not do the week before. We design the curriculum around your context rather than delivering a fixed course off the shelf.

What it includes
  • Scoping and needs analysis. A short discovery with the people who will attend, so the session answers their real problem.
  • A curriculum written for your context. Exercises, case material and language drawn from the sector you actually work in.
  • Facilitated delivery. In person or online, in workshops built around group work rather than slides read aloud.
  • Materials you keep. Handouts, templates and the facilitation plan, so your own people can run it again.
  • Follow-up. A review session to check what stuck and what needs reinforcing.
Subjects we cover
Sustainable Development GoalsSocial enterpriseProject design GovernanceVolunteer managementMonitoring and evaluation
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Network of experts and professionals

Piozone gives organisations access to a network of UK experts, trainers and professionals. You tell us what the work needs. We find the right people, make the introduction and manage the arrangement, so you deal with one point of contact rather than a string of freelancers.

What it includes
  • Experts matched to your brief. Send us the subject, the format and the dates, and we come back with a shortlist, usually of three, with fees and availability.
  • Trainers and facilitators. UK practitioners to deliver a course or a cohort programme, on their own or alongside our team.
  • Speakers, judges and assessors. Professionals for conferences, award panels and technical reviews.
  • Introductions to UK institutions. Universities, professional bodies, research centres and sector organisations that fit what you are building.
  • Contracting and coordination. We handle the agreement, the scheduling and the follow-up, so the expert arrives briefed and the work gets delivered.
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Social development

Programmes designed with a community rather than for it. We help you find what the community will genuinely sustain, build it with them, and hand over something that keeps running after the funding round closes.

What it includes
  • Community consultation. Listening sessions and mapping, so the design starts from what people said rather than what a funder assumed.
  • Programme and platform design. The structure, the roles and the tools, as with the national volunteering platform we launched in Tunisia.
  • Volunteer mobilisation. Recruiting, briefing and retaining volunteers, and giving coordinators something manageable to run.
  • Inclusion and resilience work. Making sure the people usually left out of a programme are inside this one.
  • Measurement and handover. Indicators a funder will accept, and a handover pack so local partners own it.
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How an engagement runs

Understand, equip, empower

The same three steps sit behind all three services. The content changes, the sequence does not.

01

Understand

We listen closely to your goals, your context and the constraints you are actually working inside, before proposing anything.

02

Equip

We deliver the training, the expertise or the programme design, and the resources that go with them.

03

Empower

We hand over the capability and the materials, so progress continues long after we step back.

Before you get in touch

Questions we are asked most

Do you work outside the United Kingdom?

Yes. We are registered in England and Wales and we work with organisations worldwide. Training and consultations run online wherever you are; in-person delivery depends on the dates and the location, so raise it early.

Can you run a workshop for a group rather than an individual?

Group work is the normal case. Most of what we do is designed for a cohort, because the value comes from a team building the same capability at the same time. One-to-one consultations exist mainly for founders and programme leads who need a decision made before they commit a group.

Who is in your network?

Independent UK professionals: trainers, consultants, academics and practitioners, each working in their own field. We match on subject, experience, language and format, and we only put someone forward when we are confident they fit the brief. You see the shortlist and you choose.

Are you a regulated adviser?

Piozone provides training, programme design and access to specialist expertise. We are not a law firm and we do not provide regulated legal, tax or financial advice. Where a matter needs a regulated professional, we say so and help you find and brief one.

What does a piece of work cost?

Training, expert sourcing and social development programmes are quoted against scope, because a half-day session and a twelve-month programme are not comparable. One-to-one consultations are booked and paid for on the booking page. Tell us what you are trying to do and we will give you a figure rather than a range.

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