Director of Programmes
Sue is responsible for scoping and development of major projects with particular focus on business development, advice and training. These currently include projects such as Opening New Markets, Social Enterprise: Transforming the Lives of Londoners and working with funders such as London Councils, ERDF and Capacity Builders. She has over 15 years of experience managing over £15 million of donor funded projects.
These have included projects both in the UK and overseas and donor funders such as EU (ERDF, ESF, PHARE, TACIS), World Bank, UNIDO and Regional Development Agencies. Projects have focused predominantly on Social Enterprise and SME business support and have included activities such as computer based product development, workforce development, mentoring schemes, Business Angels networks and some very “off the wall” activities such as Chaos Management within SMEs!
In Jan 2003 Sue took a 9 month sabbatical to work as a voluntary member of staff for Raleigh Intl, the youth development charity. She worked as an interpreter and project co-ordinator in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, assisting small remote communities with local building projects using Raleigh's young adult Venturers from around the world. Having completed her work with Raleigh, Sue extended her stay in Central America visiting other countries in the region before spending a month in the Middle East.