Jenny Potkins

Early in my career I managed community education programmes for charities and dance organisations in London’s diverse East End. More recently I was part of the consultancy team at NCVO, the UK’s largest voluntary sector support organisation, working with charities of all sizes, public sector organisations and partnerships. I delivered workshop facilitation, training, and small to large-scale consultancy processes involving multiple stakeholders.   

I work collaboratively with clients respecting that they are the experts in what they do and the context in which they work. The expertise I bring is to help design and deliver participatory processes which are tailored to their unique opportunities and challenges. I use a variety of facilitation and strategic planning methods, including theory of change and systems mapping.  

The processes I deliver enable stakeholders to work towards a unified vision, identify pathways to drive internal and external change, address resourcing issues and plan effectively, and reflect on the assumptions underlying their approach.   

Ways I could help Place Partnerships include:  

• Supporting leaders to plan the best process for their area  

• Stakeholder consultation  

• Designing and facilitating workshops eg around vision and systems change  

• Helping stakeholders reflect on learning and increase their capability for change implementation.