Community Support Services & Community Business Mentoring

This area of work focuses on assisting communities with project development, management, administration and finance and bridging the gaps between communities and funding organisations. This includes: providing information, advice, support, coordination, training, monitoring and consultancy services.

Services include:

• Providing project development assistance and support
• Strategic planning
• Feasibility studies
• Business concept evaluation and development
• Business plans for community enterprises
• Financial modelling to establish the viability of projects
• Finance structuring and negotiations
• Project planning, capacity building and support
• Consultation and engagement exercises
• Grant Applications
• Project management
• Training, Organisational Development and Capacity Building

Real Alternatives also provides facilitation, event and conference organisation services.

"Real solutions in a changing world"

(10% of all our profit goes directly on making all of Real Alternatives activities carbon neutral)