TECHNICAL CONSULTANCY
Bridewell Gardens
Bridewell are "an outstanding mental health charity located in rural West Oxfordshire. Bridewell is a mental health recovery service." They "provide social and therapeutic horticulture in a working garden to adults living in Oxfordshire."
Find out more about Bridewell here.
How did we work together?
Ruth (CEO) @ Bridewell approached me initially for some advice around building technical project management into a funding bid - could I support in such a role and what might that look like in terms of delivery. Having successfully secured the funding we reconnected and the process began!
Bridewell needed to move their website from a legacy system to an easier to use platform which would provide them with the tools and framework to better showcase what they do and the impact they make.We started by running a discovery workshop. We did this in Bridewell's awesome walled garden - such an inspiring environment to work from. Our initial focus was to really start building out enough detail to create a great brief to submit to potential partners. It wasn't our role to design or architect the solution - but to create a strong and clear brief such that all of bridewell's needs and wants were properly considered. This brief was needed to ensure potential partners were super clear on their scope and the process in order to create their proposals.
Having created a strong brief we created a list of 6 partners to approach to bid through an initial screen process to check cultural fit and that the scope and budget matched the work they do. Bids submitted we guided Bridewell through a review process to shortlist the proposals. A shortlist of 3 was created and through an interview and presentation Bridewell were able to select their perfect partner.
We then switched the focus of our attention to supporting Bridewell and the partner through the delivery stage. We undertook a number of activities during the technical delivery including but not limited to
- Delivery planning
- Rollout planning and liaison with ceding technical partner
- Test planning and execution support
- Technical documentation and configuration considerations
"Our experience of working alongside Nicola from Thonix has been overwhelmingly positive. We were so impressed by her knowledge of the sector and understanding of the needs of small charities. Nicola calmly and patiently steered us through the minefield of choosing the right web developer, listening to our requirements and constraints. With Nicola’s help we picked the perfect partners and she steered us through the planning and implementation stages of creating a new website with aplomb, with a strong focus on our strategy, and transparent about her role and the role of the web developers. She insured that our deadlines were met and that the whole process was as smooth as it could be. We are so glad we chose Nicola to help with this process – it all sounded daunting at first but Nicola made it straightforward and even fun at times. Highly recommended."
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