The team » Andrew Outhwaite
Consultant
andrew@eastsideconsulting.co.uk
Expertise
Facilitating the flow of skills, knowledge and resources from private business, and government into third sector organisations through learning and development programmes.
Passions @ work
Designing and running processes that bring together people and ideas from diverse backgrounds for collaborative action and mutual benefit; supporting local ideas that can become worldchanging enterprises; strategic approaches to social and ecological sustainability; working with great teams and authentic and passionate people; innovative approaches to learning and development.
Passions away from work
Mountain biking and running. Community gardens. Staying in touch with networks of peers. Experiential, collaborative and consciousness-centred approaches to engaging with sustainable development. Baking sourdough bread. The ocean and coast. Reading.
Eastside Highlights
Building the Academy from an idea, to a component of the business that is attracting clients and support the growth of social enterprise.
Leading Eastside's work on the Equal-Invest programme, developing Spark, and otherwise engaging with inspiring social entrepreneurs and mentors.
Learning more about financial and social perspectives on sustainability, to build on the ecological. Seeing how 'the numbers' of financial forecasts, cashflows and audited accounts tell the story of an enterprise.
Meeting and working with great interns, inspired young professionals, and wise and selfless mentors.
Historic: Came to London, the UK and Eastside after completing innovative Masters in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainable Development. Prior to that I worked in community-based management of coastal areas e.g. Developing and implementing a bioregional sustainability strategy for the central west coast of Western Australia.
Previous Experience
- Consultant, Eastside Consulting, 2006-present
- Sustainability consulting freelance, 2005-6
- Regional Natural Resource Management Officer for NACC, 2003-5
- Wetland Restoration Project Manager, 2003
Education
- Masters in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.
- Honours in Geography (Advanced Environmental Management), University of Western Australia.
- Bachelor of Marine Science (Coastal Management), University of Western Australia
Nationality
Australian
Languages
English
Fifteen organisations have been chosen to compete for a share of £500,000 and hundreds and thousands of pounds of other prizes through Spark to build their social enterprise to get more people off the streets permanently.
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Spark, an innovative £1.5million project to prevent and tackle homelessness using social enterprise, was launched on 18 December by Junior Housing Minister Iain Wright.
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Eastside guides social enterprises to pitch for investment at Dragon’s Den-style event
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