We think differently, providing our unique creativity and perspective to your project; together turning opportunities into action.
Associates enable Erskine to make even the very largest regeneration project happen and are at the heart of the way we works.
Below you will find summary information on each firm.
Based in Carlisle, Cumbria but operating throughout the UK, Adam Wellings Consulting has particular expertise and knowledge of the rural economy and landscape of the North East, Yorkshire and Humber and the North West of England.
They specialise in projects that involve research, strategic analysis and development strategies and have been involved in several projects that have given the Cumbrian rural economy a head start over many other regions with principally rural agendas.
Most of all, they pride themselves on ‘getting things done’. Research and strategies are professionally created but we take even more pride in our reputation for turning strategies and action plans into real results for the good of rural communities. We are the people on the ground in the region that can deliver results by working with local businesses, authorities and individuals.
Adam Wellings, Managing Director - Adam Wellings Consulting Limited
Bauman Lyons Architects Limited has been established since 1992 and has succeeded in securing a variety of commissions from a wide range of clients. Their projects include restoration and refurbishment work, urban design projects, residential, arts buildings, mixed use schemes, offices, restaurants and bars as well as exhibition design.
They have secured numerous Architecture Awards and been featured in many publications including the Architecture Foundations guide to Britain’s best young architectural practices 2002, and New British Architecture by Kenneth Powell 2003.
Bauman Lyons believe that the architect’s role is to combine the art of creating with the art of making things happen. They also believe that most important principle of long term, sustainable architecture lies in harnessing best practice from international and national experience and combining it with the understanding of the local environment.
They are a dynamic team motivated by the challenges presented by each client and the desire to satisfy the needs of the user, whilst responding to the context.
Bauman Lyons have also developed project management skills to enable us to manage large schemes and complex teams. In the process we have acquired detailed knowledge of funding systems, business planning, programming, risk assessment and cost control. We understand that good management is an essential ingredient in implementing good design without any loss of strategic vision.
The practice is committed to working with, and contributing, to the local community along with social and environmental sustainability.
Irena Bauman, Director - Bauman Lyons Architects
Bramhall Blenkharn are architects that have extensive experience in creating great and successful places and buildings for community based groups.
The Courtyard in Goole is a shining example of Bramhall Blenkharn’s Skills, 10 years on The Courtyard is hoping to expand due to continued over subscription of the spaces and popularity of the buildings conversion into a community centre.
Wykeham Village Hall has all of the ingredients to create a wonderful New Community Building / Village Hall / Village Primary School Sports Hall / Amenity and we are really looking forward to progressing this project with the Village Hall Committee and Design Team. It’s a modern contextual building, sustainable with renewable energy elements, there are no practical foreseeable problems with this project, the site is great, the people are fabulous and fired-up - it will be an enormous success and an example for other rural communities to follow – And it’s ready to go!
Rick Blenkharn, Director - Bramhall Blenkharn
Charlie Cattell is a social economy consultant and is expert in:
Charlie Cattell - Proprietor
CMC provides coaching and facilitation that works! Our philosophy is inclusive and developmental - we believe in people’s capacity to learn to help themselves. Our expertise lies in processes that change attitudes and improve the quality of thinking, releasing energy and resource to bring about desired results.
Clients include:
Alstom, BT, Benefits Agency, Bradford Metropolitan Council, City of York, Craven District Council, Eagle Star, HM Treasury, HSBC, Halifax, John Lewis (Herbert Parkinson), Marks and Spencer, Morgan Stanley, National Trust, Prudential, Rexam, Reuters, Richmonshire District Council, Scottish Enterprise, State Street Bank and Trust, United Utilities, Xansa, Yorkshire Water.
John Varney Director - Centre for Management Creativity
Yvonne has worked with Erskine on a regular basis since 2004 as both a Project Associates and as a Partner. Recently re-launching her own consultancy practice, Deane Associates, which she established in 1996. She brings a wealth of experience in the arts and cultural fields as well as extensive knowledge of the voluntary sector and social enterprise development.
Yvonne has worked within both local authorities and the national arts funding infrastructure and has been instrumental in developing arts and cultural policy at a local, regional and national level, most recently assisting with a new Libraries Strategy for Leicester City Council. She is fully versed in the operational issues for a wide range of arts, cultural and community organisations. Through her fundraising strategies and implementation she has secured substantial private sector, charitable, European and Lottery funding for many projects.
Yvonne gained several years experience of trans-national and collaborative working on European R&D programmes through her work as Chief Executive of Axis - the national Visual Arts Information Service - which she established in 1991, pioneering the use of multimedia over broadband.
She now applies her considerable project management experience to the delivery of built environment programmes working with award winning architects such as Studio Egret West, Bauman Lyons Architects and Groundworks Architects LLP. Her skills include: co-ordination of multidisciplinary teams; conduct of options appraisals & feasibility studies; business planning, organisational development and capital project implementation. Success stories include the completion of the award winning Little London Children’s Centre in Leeds (opened 1996) and a planned new community library building for Leicester City Council for which she recently secured a £1.5million Big Lottery Fund award.
Yvonne’s many voluntary activities have included chairing the Parent Teachers Association of an inner city primary school, playing an active role as a trustee of Voluntary Action Leeds, and for the past few years serving on Leeds Initiative’s Arts Partnership where she was the representative on the City Growth Strategy study into the Creative and Digital Industries.
Yvonne Deane, Proprietor - Deane Associates
Funnel Creative is a Manchester based agency dedicated to providing specific design solutions across a broad range of communication routes. Using traditional methods of research and educated creativity, a team of highly experienced designers, creatives and programmers have been providing clients with effective strategies for five years.
Their work in the past has included the honourable task of designing literature and books for the Creative Circle London, a leading UK design awards organisation, and a promotional book for the Liverpool and Manchester Design Initiative, highlighting artists and designers from the North West in Milan for the designers Block Exhibitions.
Other clients include Business Link South Yorkshire, ICIAN, the building and re-generation company, POCHIN Construction plc and Luminar Leisure Limited.
Funnels’ collective experience covers Graphic design, web development, photography, illustration, typography and art direction for print and the internet.
Barry Kinder, Creative Director - Funnel Creative Limited
Sophie Grigson is the daughter of Jane Grigson who, along with Elizabeth David, were two of the founders of modern British cookery writing.
With this background food was always a passion, but Sophie never imagined that it would become her livelihood. As a result, she went on to study maths at university, which was followed by a spell working on pop videos. During this period she continued to cook for her own pleasure, inspired by ingredients she found in the small, diverse local shops in her area of London. She describes cooking as: “A joy. Here is something you have to do every day, and every day you can make it different and delectable”.
In 1983, Sophie had her first article published in the Sunday Express magazine. Three years later she took over the daily cookery column in the London Evening Standard. After six years she moved on to a weekly column, first for the Independent and then the Sunday Times. She now has seven television series and at least over 14 books (she’s lost count!) behind her.
It was on one of these television series where she met Angela and together they presented an episode of the BBC’s Sophie’s Sunshine Foods featuring cooking from the South of France.
Studio Egret West brings together visionary urban design and uplifting, distinctive architecture within one studio.
The firm was established in November 2004 by two former directors of Alsop Architecture with a shared vision: To offer strategy with architectural specificity and specificity within the overall strategy, not just what lies within an introvert red line boundary!!
Architecture is too often seen in isolation from its urban context. Planning is to often seen as soulless, unspecific proposals that gather dust on shelves. Studio Egret West believe that the way forward is the osmosis between planning and architecture.
Erskine believe they are right; that’s why we love these guys…
Christophe Egret, Director - Studio Egret West
TBR Economics was established in 1986 as a result of research commissioned by DTI at Newcastle University to examine the structure and economic dynamics of the UK firm population. The research findings convinced UK Government that it should invest in support for small businesses and the SME revolution began.
Today TBR is an economic development consultancy working on behalf of clients that include several government departments, financial organisations such as HSBC, regional and sub regional economic delivery vehicles such as the Regional Development Agencies and a variety of private sector businesses.
The common thread in commissioned work is client intent to improve the Evidence Base that guides strategic decisions.
TBR relies upon the wide ranging skills of its 10 experienced consultants to deliver accurate insights to a client brief. Its own standing database (TCR) contains a longitudinal profile at company level of business performance over the period 1996 to 2005. No equivalent comparative data base exists, including HM Government’s own Inter Departmental Business Register to which access is proscribed by law.
Andrew Graves, Managing Director - TBR Economics
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