Through Soundboard Consultancy Fiona Frank can support

• INDIVIDUALS
• SMALL BUSINESSES/ARTISTS/MUSICIANS/SOLE TRADERS
• ORGANISATIONS

individuals in personal projects like -

• Pre-planning for will-writing (thinking through all those tricky decisions before you visit the solicitor, like on the BBC2 programme "Can't Take It With You!")
• CV writing and job application support
• Branching back into higher education
• Conducting personal research projects

With Fiona's expert guidance, I managed, after a period of time at home with my family, to hone my CV and gain an interview for a job in my first choice of industry. I now look forward to returning to work with confidence. CG, Glasgow, December 2010.

Soundboard Consultancy provided me with a focused, thorough and professional review of a recent job application form I had completed. After revising the text in line with their comments, I got an interview and was subsequently made a job offer. Steve, Lancaster, January 2011.

artists, musicians, small businesses and sole traders - mentoring support

to help you talk through your work life balance, your business ideas and your PR/Marketing thoughts. Reasonable rates based on your projected income.

See www.hannahfrank.org.uk for a project Fiona has successfully driven for the last eight years to bring the art of Glasgow artist Hannah Frank (1908-2008) to public attention - including a reception at the Scottish Parliament, exhibitions in New York, Boston, and all round the UK, and substantial TV, radio and press coverage.

"Thanks for organising a poster advertising our small farm on Cape Clear Island at the port of Baltimore - our visitor numbers and ice cream sales have gone through the roof!"  Ed Harper, Cleire Goats, Cape Clear Island, West Cork. 

public sector organisations

support in bid sourcing and bid writing.

Fiona has twenty years of experience in bidwriting and delivering projects in adult education, higher education and third sector organizations.

"You have worked amazingly hard on the NLA/Senior Learners' project: no-one could have done more than you and...I doubt if anyone else could have made it run so well. ... As a result, many people in the area around Lancaster have become involved in learning programmes and access to education where they would not otherwise have done." VA, older learner, May 2010.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Writing successful funding bids in adult education and the third sector - including European, Government, Lottery, and Research Council funding sources.
• Adult education development and delivery
• Setting up and delivery of educational research, development and evaluation projects (in the fields of adult and workplace literacy, older people's learning and service development)
• Art marketing
• CV writing and job application support
• Listening skills and getting people to face difficult questions
• Oral history interviewing
• Sound recording and editing (personal interviews and music)
• Dyslexia support
• Development of Jewish community projects and Jewish policy research
• Networking, networking, and networking!

QUALIFICATIONS

Fiona Frank has a BA in European Studies from the University of Bath, an M.Ed in Adult Literacy from the University of Sheffield, and a PhD in the Centre for Oral History at the University of Strathclyde. She has done Project Management training with CETAD, Lancaster University, and has an RSA Certificate in Counselling in the Advancement of Learning and an Open University Professional Diploma in Post Compulsory Education. She speaks fluent French and some Spanish, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese.

In her 'spare time' she's a Klezmer musician and dance caller, and avid novel reader and lives in Lancaster Cohousing, an ecovillage with shared communal facilities and managed offices and studios and coworking space (Halton Mill) in Halton outside Lancaster.
She has two current part time roles: operations manager at Halton Mill, and Projects and Outreach manager at SCoJeC, the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities. 

ASSOCIATES

Fiona Frank/Soundboard Consultancy can also work in association with Judith Coyle (wordsmith) and/or Adele at Moonloft - artist and graphic designer.

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

Fiona has bases in Lancaster and Glasgow and would be happy to carry out projects in Glasgow, Lancaster, London, nationwide, or internationally. Get in touch by phone or email - contact details below - to discuss short and medium term projects in any of the above areas.

Fiona Frank

fionafrank@gmail.com

+44 7778 737681