What Our Customers Say About Us

IfaProsure - Jonathan Newell - Managing Director - Angela's engagement assisted my firm by putting in place key strategies to help retain our core market share (which was coming under strong priced based competition) and laying the foundations from which to propel and grow the business in the medium/long term. Angela's unique style helps you look at matters objectively whilst her sincere enthusiasm and engaging manner help inspire creativity and confidence. In summary; investing in Angela was an invaluable experience and I have absolutely no hesitation in recommending her services.

Adventure Island and Southend Radio - Philip Miller owner of Stockvale Group - Angela Kimberley first started working with Adventure Island over six years assisting us to develop strategies to recruit, support and develop our staff. With her help we have developed organisational, team and individual staff training plans, accessed funding and have achieved Investor in People Status. Since then Angela has been involved with developments within the group and joined the board of Southend Radio as a Non Executive Director contributing to the successful achievement of winning the license and setting up the new radio station. Angela has remained on the board and continues to support the team. "Angela has always been an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and driven person and has helped us to cut through red tape to access government funding making it easy to access enabling us to develop our staff.

Rossi Ice Cream - Southend on Sea - Colin Gray - "We were delighted with the professional service and support from Angela and her team who helped us to organise our training and access funding - her support and advice were invaluable and we would highly recommend them"

New Town Films - Southend on Sea - Terry Bird - "The team went up and beyond to make our application process easier, Angela and her team even worked weekends to help us meet our deadline" and such a lovely company to work with, cheered us up and focused us when we were feeling down"

Kingston Adult Education College - Lisa Havenga ACMI -  Business Development Manager - I just wanted to say a BIG thank you for the training session you carried out on Friday. I found it very concise, uplifting and relevant - definitely one of the best 1-1 sessions I have ever had, you are such a professional! I feel much more confident now in engaging with employers.

NWTA Ltd T/as watchagency.co.uk - Southend on Sea - Oscar McNeeley - "Accessing funding has always been a bit daunting, Angela and her team made it easy, painless and very rewarding. We accessed funding of £1000 to develop our skills so that we could manage our own website which is essential to us as we are a web based business - it's great to have a local person on the doorstep who can help us and the service was amazing"

Aviation Quality Management Services Ltd - Southend on Sea - David Leach - "We need to ensure we are up to date with the latest information in order to drive our business forward - gaining funding of £1000 helped us with our cash flow and allowed us to do a course that we may not have otherwise taken up - we could not fault the customer service"

Red Square Creative Ltd - Southend on Sea -Gavin Cooper - "Keeping up to date with the latest technology changes keeps us ahead of the game, we recently undertook a course that provided us with additional knowledge to drive the business forward - we could not believe how easy it was to complete the paperwork and process our claim - we have always steered away from government funding until now"

South East Essex College - Carol Anson Higgs Business Development Director - Angela Kimberley provided consultancy support to South East Essex College to help us review and implement employer engagement strategies in readiness for achievement of the Training Quality Standards - a national benchmark for training providers. Angela also provides us with advice and support for employer's to access funded training provision from the College. "Angela came highly recommended and since her consultancy project with us we have continued to be in regular contact with her to identify any funding that may be available for the local community - it is a great to have a local person with so much knowledge for our local community"

The Real Business Training Company - Southend on Sea - Chris Bradford Managing Director -  The Real Business Training Company was created in the recognition of the growing need for small and medium sized businesses to improve their competitiveness through improved management performance enabling them to afford high quality business training and coaching on their doorstep. "Businesses in Southend have benefitted significantly for their personal and business development allowing them to access funded training to assist them to set up new strategies and financial controls to work through the recession. Working with Angela Kimberley and her team has been a seamless service as they have provided a responsive, efficient and smooth experience for both the business and ourselves as a provider"

Derek Mather - Deputy Principal - Director of Adults, Skills and Higher Education - Brockenhurst College - "Angela worked closely with Brockenhurst College over a period of 9 months helping us to document our processes, enhance our CRM system and achieve the Training Quality Standard. We would recommend Angela's consultancy and project management approach and style to any College who wish to develop their employer engagement strategies and structure"

Pippa O'Gorman - Director of Business Development - Farnborough College of Technology - "A huge thank you Angela for your support since Christmas for help with our Programmes for the unemployed. Your practical and pragmatic approach has been very valuable and we have made great strides forward in these programmes and in our joint work on QCF. We also found the workshops that you facilitated across the region to be a fantastic resource for sharing practice"

Karen Evans - Director of Business Development - Thanet College - Just to say a big thank you for your continued support and patience whilst we continually strive to improve our service to employers. The work you have done with us has provided a good basis for us to continue into the future and I am sure we will keep in touch to let you know how we are doing.

Ralph Stratton - Assistant Principal - Director of Commercial Services - Sparsholt College Hampshire  - The Consultancy support provided us with "out of the box" consultancy support on areas of employer engagement, strategy, operational procedures and guidance on CRM implementation, providing us with the confidence to continue to develop this area of the business"

Neil Espin - Managing Director - The Corporate and Executive Coaching Organisation - "Since I attended your workshop on funding I followed your advice and actually received a T2G grant, not a lot but enough to re-develop our web and our social media strategy and get a promise of an article in the paper for our story. So a belated thanks for pushing me to ask for something, I got it!!!"

Rosalie Portman - "Working with Angela's team has meant accessing Women and Work funding possible. The simple thought of completing an application form would have put me off. Administration skills are not my strength, but with this help I have been able to access the funding"

Alexandra Ostroumoff - " I left my 9-5 office work when I had a baby and the option of returning part time was not available. Being a farmer's wife, I thought about a new career path. With the support of Angela and her team, I have managed to register myself as being self employed and studying to become a Forest School Leader. This is something I can do from home (on the farm) and it works well around the children"

Vicky Lawrence - "Over the last year my self employed work has been very slow so the thought of spending money on training, was not an option. When I heard of the funding from Women and Work, I thought this would be great from a financial support and also having spare time with not being busy at work time was not an issue for once. Not really sure on what training to do, I talked through my goals with Angela and now I have new skills in creative arts in the environment and a new contract with the local council".

University of Essex BIC Unit, Southend on Sea - Julie Jones - University of Essex Business Hub Manager - Angela first approached the University in July 2008 with a view to becoming one of our Business Incubator Centre (BIC) tenants. As a start up business we were pleased to be able to accommodate her in one our smaller units. However like many of our residents, her business grew from strength to strength and she asked to move to a larger unit to accommodate her growing team. In April 2009 she moved to a larger unit more suitable for her expanding business. "We have seen first hand how hard Angela works and her professional approach to business. With her wealth of knowledge and experience of funding and government schemes she has been able to help some of her fellow University of Essex BIC tenants to access funding to help their businesses grow and develop. She is very approachable and always finds time to help anyone who needs her advice, signposting them on if necessary to one of her vast and numerous collaborators We wish Angela every success in her application with the knowledge that she has worked to achieve the reputation of a business providing a highly professional service to the business community"

KPMG - Craig Robinson Programme Director World Class Skills - The World Class Skills programme aims to support Learning and Skills Council (LSC) funded providers to enhance their employer responsive provision. As a Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) programme, WCS is managed and delivered by KPMG. This new programme is helping colleges and training providers to enhance the way they work with employers with the long term vision of up skilling the UK's workforce. Angela Kimberley has been working with KPMG on the programme since 2008 as an Associate working specifically on pre employment programmes and also assisting colleges and providers to develop their employer engagement strategies and work towards achieving the Training Quality Standard. "Angela is a key member of the Associate team who is well respected by the KPMG team and is receiving excellent feedback from the providers she supports".

Lantra Sector Skills Council - Lyndsay Bird - Lantra Women and Work Project Manager - The Women and Work programme offers funding towards training to help women throughout England progress within occupations in the environmental and land-based industries where women are significantly under-represented. Angela Kimberley and her team have been working as Skills Coaches on a National basis marketing and engaging with and brokering funding for over 600 ladies. With the successful delivery of last year's contract the company have been awarded a 50% increase in contract size this year. "Angela has worked with Lantra over the last three years and when Angela set up her Business last year we were delighted to give Angela Kimberley Ltd a contract for brokering funding for the Women and Work project. The processes and procedures and efficient way that Angela and her team have managed the contract has given us confidence as the contractor to increase her number of participants making her our largest skills coach deliverer in the Women and Work programme for London and National Skills Coach 2010

The Consultancy Home Counties - TCHC Dale Morgan - Managing Director - The Consultancy Home Counties - TCHC is a specialist company in business and workforce development solutions operating throughout the East of England, offering expert advice across all industry sectors. Angela Kimberley has worked with TCHC as an associate for the leadership and management programme for the East of England, particularly in Southend on Sea, providing advice and support for Business Owners, Senior Directors and Senior Managers to access funding towards personal leadership and management development. Angela also identified the need to streamline the process to access funding and working in partnership with Sirius Concepts Ltd introduced a web based solution for TCHC to provide a transparent and effective service to both the customer and the contractor. Since August 2008 over 5000 leadership and management applications have been managed successfully on line providing an excellent service to the customer and also enabling TCHC to become the national leader in the Leadership and Management programme. "Angela clearly understands and has significant experience of managing funding in the business, skills and education market. She has worked extremely well with our organisation to develop and manage the introduction of the leadership and management programme and TCHC aim to continue to seek her services for any government funded initiatives in the new future"