Trevor Gardner Associates

read moreWorking as the Project Development Manager for an Exeter charity for over 16 years Trevor developed well over 20 projects in a variety of settings with a wide range of clients and benefactors in mind, the majority of which are still operating and in many cases thriving. These include a day centre for homeless people, a mentoring project for ex-offenders, a healthy living centre for a community with few community facilities, a counselling service with professional counsellors at an affordable cost, a day centre for older people, and a project supporting people at risk of loosing their tenancy.

read moreTrevor Gardner Associates have successfully completed a Community Audit for a church in Exeter that wanted to know how it could redevelop it's site to best meet the unmet needs of the local community to which it is part and a Feasability Study for a housing association to determine the best way to provide additional community facilities. Both involved; focus groups, questionnaires, interviews and other research methods, to tease out what is provided in the area already, what is planned in the future, what local people think and would support as well as what options, scope, and possibilities there are for the site, in order to achieve a sustainable future.