Our Services
Kinase Strategy provides a full complement of strategy consultancy, from small to large projects, across sectors. Our network of Associates and partner companies means we can mobilise experts matched to your project demands, maximsing our ability to provide a cost-effective, rapidly scalable consultancy solution.
We provide specialist services within the Education and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) sectors.
Our core services include:
- Technical and Strategic Consultancy
- Stakeholder Consultation
- Audits (organisational and operational)
- Market Research
- Business Planning
- Training and Workshops
- Research Services (briefing papers and full reports, publishable papers and conference presentations)
- Writing, Editorial, Administrative Back-office Support
Education Sector
We are committed to improving educational and life prospects for all people, of all ages. Education precedes knowledge, skills, ability, confidence and the capacity to achieve. We believe the task of improving educational services is essential to securing sustainable community development.
We have worked closely with schools, headteachers, governing bodies, communities, Local Authorities, academy and school trusts, the Department for Education and the third sector to improve education throughout the UK.
We also support independent schools to grow their network of schools on a local, national and global scale. We translate visions for future growth into sustainable educational services in new areas, for aspirational learners and communities.
Our specialist education services include:
School Design Consultancy
We support schools, Local Authorities, regional planners, architects and construction industry partners in school refurbishment and building design projects. We help to deliver innovative school design and building solutions that improve educational provision for communities.
We provide services across the 8 key areas of school design consultancy, namely:
• Accounting for new teaching and learning methods and the variety of learning styles and needs through comprehensive educational visioning and planning
Technology
• Enhancing learning through integrated technology solutions
School size
• Ensuring a small school culture is a scalable solution through robust curriculum analysis, adjacency planning, and detailed schedules of accommodation
Siting and location
• Embedding schools in the heart of communities with optimal coordination across complementary community services
Multi-use facilities
• Making schools the hub of community activity and learning
Stakeholder engagement
• Securing community and school user groups’ support through consultation services to BREEAM specification
Quality learning and work environments
• Making healthy, comfortable, and flexible teaching and learning spaces, confirming suitability and accuracy of design as 1:200 through to 1:50 architectural drawings
Traditional vs. alternative spaces
• Considering non-traditional options for school facilities and classrooms, integrating concepts of value engineering to inspire value for money innovation
Curriculum Development
We work collaboratively with schools and school senior leadership teams to adapt curriculum and pedagogy to meet advancing government targets, community and area demands. We coordinate curriculum across primary, secondary, FE and HE, ensuring open and clear pathways for personalised learning.
We provide an integrated curriculum analysis and educational audit as a feature of our school design consultancy where schedules of accommodation are required to inform building and refurbishment programmes. We also provide direct curriculum development consultation, drafting new curriculum and designing teaching plans to deliver innovative approaches in teaching and learning.
Teacher Training and CPD
We develop teacher training and continuous professional development (CPD) modules, targeting specific staff up-skilling needs. We create the materials, provide workshops, and gather the necessary resources to enable teaching staff to deliver new curriculum or implement new pedagogies.
We work closely with one of our partner companies, Communitas-PR, to provide a full complement of professionally produced resources and materials, as required. We bring innovation in teaching and learning to life through engaging, dynamic teacher training and CPD services.
SEN and Inclusion Support
We provide special educational needs reviews, training, and support. We work with leading university researchers on SEN and inclusion issues, integrating the most up-to-date theory and practices across our education consultancy services. We also help to test cutting-edge best practices emerging everyday in schools and communities within the academic domain through university talks and lectures.
We provide specialist support for improving behaviour and attendance in schools. Our published research is cited in UK and international journals, helping to deliver practical classroom and school-wide solutions for reducing antisocial, disruptive behaviour and improving positive learning behaviours.
Education Audits
We offer a range of organisational and operational audit services. We review policies, management and administration procedures, teaching practices, and learning outcomes against identified targets, helping senior leadership make informed school improvement decisions.
Our education audits are often delivered as a part of package service, when providing school design and curriculum development consultancy. However, we do also provide one-off strategic audits to support targeted organisational or operational change.
Market Research
We ensure our clients have all the information they need pertaining to short and long-range socio-economic projections to enable informed, strategic planning for sustainable future growth.
We deliver direct market research, bespoke to school design and improvement projects to help school senior leadership, Local Authorities and planners make informed decisions about changing area needs. Our services include a meta-analysis of existing demographic, economic, education and community development research, while also taking into account regional and national government policy with implications for community/area growth.
Research and Reporting
We provide a research and report service using robust methodologies agreed with our clients to deliver briefing papers, presentations, and research reports to inform senior leadership deliver strategic transformational change.
Our research and reporting services is used by clients of wide ranging needs: from same-day requests for briefing papers on a specific issue, up to and including comprehensive original research to help unravel worrying organisational or operational trends.
All our research is subject to the highest quality assurance standards, comprehensively referenced and in a form that can be readily used by senior leadership as presentation materials or as appendices to internal reporting requirements or for tendering purposes.
Bid Writing and Tendering
We provide a full complement of bid writing and tendering services.
We produce complete tenders and contributions to tenders with high success rates. We work cooperatively with clients to produce tenders that outperform competitors. We offer a full range of research, writing, and design services to ensure our clients submissions are the first choice of tendering bodies.
Stakeholder Consultation
We provide stakeholder consultations and engagements for small and large projects. High quality, successful stakeholder consultation is essential for our clients, enabling them to deliver projects on time and within budget.
We work closely with clients from the start, identifying key stakeholders and potential hot-button issues. Our stakeholder consultation and engagement processes are based on the principle of working out from the middle of the core support, building positive momentum through ever widening engagement with the people, groups, associations and agencies essential for project success.
PR and Marketing
We work closely with a specialist communications, public relations and marketing company, Communitas-PR. We provide creative PR and marketing solutions that underpin our clients’ strategic marketing strategies. We help clients grow market share, engage community partner agencies, increase networks, and build corporate identity.
CSR and Sustainability Reporting
Kinase Strategy provides strategic CSR and sustainability reporting consultancy to clients who want to improve organisational and operational efficiencies while securing sustainable growth across the triple bottom line, namely, people, planet, profit.
We evaluate the sustainability of organisational and operational activities using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) benchmarks. Kinase Strategy is a GRI Organisational Stakeholder, contributing to the development and application of globally recognised standards for responsible corporate practice and transparent reporting procedures.
We believe CSR is good for business.
An effective CSR policy encourages an aspirational corporate climate that values ingenuity, efficiency, and integrity as indicative of a strong bottom-line.
Strong CSR credentials deliver a number of direct, measurable benefits, notably:
1. Attracting and retaining the best people, and instruct client perceptions regarding company priorities
2. Establishing sustainable local and global communities and markets
3. Encouraging innovation in sector growth, corporate efficiencies, and client services.
The current economic and political climate requires new robustness of public, private, and third sector enterprise in order to meet national targets for responsible, sustainable practices and contribute to overall compliance with international benchmarks.
We help clients stand apart from their competitors through a robust CSR strategy, indicating their commitment to:
- Organisational and operational efficiencies
- Innovative, progressive business
- Sustainable community development
- Local and global environmental issues
