✍ SQW is committed to acting as a good corporate citizen, consistent with our mission and values of quality, integrity, impact and collaboration. Our work for clients from the public, private and voluntary sectors to support the design, delivery and evaluation of good public policy is core to this intent. However, in our latest blog, colleague Samuel Gillan aims to shine a light on another way SQW delivers against its commitment to make a positive impact on society – supporting charitable causes. Click here to read the blog and find out more 👉 https://lnkd.in/gHbFC2k3 Arc - Arts for Recovery in the Community, Mudchute Park and Farm, Dragonfly Cancer Trust, The BEARR Trust, Cancer Research UK (CRUK), Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust
About us
SQW is a leading independent provider of research, analysis and advice in economic and social development. Established in 1983, and operating across the UK, Europe and internationally, we work for clients from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. We are experts in public policy and work with our clients to research, develop, implement and evaluate social and economic development interventions across a wide range of policy domains. In all of our work we employ the principles of rigorous analysis, collaborative working, commitment to quality and independence of thought. Our core areas of expertise are in Innovation, Spatial Development, Land and Property, Children and Young People, and Health and Social Care. This breadth of expertise is one of our strengths: it equips us to work across different fields in an integrated way. Our clients include government departments and agencies in the United Kingdom and overseas, devolved administrations, local authorities and partnerships, higher education institutions, charities, energy and infrastructure providers, investors and developers, and service providers. The firm is part of SQW Group alongside our sister firm Oxford Innovation, which manages a network of business and innovation centres across the UK and provides advice to start-up and established businesses to grow and succeed.
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- Business Consulting and Services
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- 51-200 employees
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- London, Greater London
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- 1983
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- Economic & Social Research, Impact Assessment, Policy Research & Development, Strategy & Action Planning, Project Development & Appraisal, Evaluation, and Organisation & Partnership Development
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London, Greater London NW1 0DU, GB
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Edinburgh, Scotland EH3 7AL, GB
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11-13 Wellington Road North
Stockport, SK4 1AF, GB
Employees at SQW
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Andy Smith
Director of Land & Property at SQW. Helping clients deliver urban regeneration and strategic growth through property projects. Specialising in…
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Amanda Rowland
Divisional Finance Director at SQW LIMITED
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Martin Wain
Associate Director at SQW: Economic development, research & innovation, place-based policy
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Bruce Macdonald
Director at SQW with 25 years experience in economic development research, evaluation, appraisal and economic impact
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SQW reposted this
Discover the economic and wider impact of Ploughshare’s work in an independent report created by SQW. This includes case studies selected from our 16 spin-out companies and 48 licensees, across our four key pillars: defence and security, health and wellbeing, digital and data, and climate, environment, and sustainability. Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/e-cyBrrY #SpinOuts #Licensees #EconomicImpact #Impact #GVA #GeneratingJobs #ExportSales #TechnologyInnovation #Collaboration #Technology #Report #Economy #Defence #Healthcare #Digital #Climate #Sustainability
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📢 Looking for a change in 2025...? We are currently recruiting skilled Senior Consultants with experience in local/sub-national #economicdevelopment and #innovation. In practice this means: 📌 Conducting socio-economic research 📌 Preparing HM Treasury Green Book-compliant business cases 📌 Completing economic impact assessments 📌 Designing and delivering evaluations 📌 Supporting strategy development and action planning Apply by 19 January 2025 👉 https://careers.sqw.co.uk/
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📢 The Health Foundation has this month published an evaluation of its Common Ambition Programme, which was carried out by SQW. This study involved a 3.5 year theory based evaluation, which ran alongside programme delivery. SQW also worked with the funded partnerships and their local evaluators to capture insights. Read the full report and find out more about the programme, partnerships and evaluation here 👉 https://lnkd.in/esCAh6Qh
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✍ Our latest blog post by Samuel Gillan shines a light on how SQW delivers against its commitment to make a positive impact on society by supporting charitable causes. Read the blog here and click on the image below to find out more about what we have been up to 👇 https://lnkd.in/gHbFC2k3
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We are pleased to have led on this evaluation of such an important programme for The Health Foundation. Find out more below 👇
Over three years, our #CommonAmbition programme supported four ambitious teams to develop collaborative communities where people, families, health care professionals and researchers worked together to improve health care. We learnt that creating collaborative communities to improve health care is both achievable and essential. They are a good way of involving those least-well served by services, who experience the worst health care outcomes. The four Common Ambition projects focused on the following: 1️⃣ Heart n Soul - Believe in Us Developed a new approach for designing services with people with learning disabilities and autistic people in London. 2️⃣ Crohn's & Colitis UK - Aware-IBD Empowered people with inflammatory bowel disease to improve their care based on what matters the most to them. 3️⃣ Brigstowe Worked with people of African and Caribbean heritage to increase HIV awareness and testing, and reduce HIV transmission in Bristol. 4️⃣ Arch Health CIC Worked to improve health services and outcomes for people experiencing homelessness in Brighton and Hove. Read the full evaluation to find out more 👇 https://lnkd.in/eJbgQXie
Common Ambition
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📢 The Health Foundation launched the Common Ambition programme in 2020. It aimed to support partnerships between the VCS, NHS and other organisations to develop collaborative communities where people, families, carers, health care professionals and researchers could work together to improve health care. SQW’s final evaluation report of the programme has now been published by the Health Foundation. The evaluation found that the four partnerships funded by the programme successfully involved community participants in collaborative decision-making alongside health care professionals, with each adopting a different approach to collaborative decision-making. Read the full report and find out more about the partnerships, programme and evaluation here 👉 https://lnkd.in/esCAh6Qh
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We are pleased to have led on this evaluation of an important programme supporting entrepreneurship across the UK. 👇
Making a lasting impact on UK entrepreneurship! 🚀 Start Up Loans-backed businesses are 1.6x more likely to survive beyond 5 years. A new independent evaluation of programme shows its important impact on smaller businesses and the economy: 💷 Every £1 of Start Up Loans’s costs generates £5.60 in GVA for the UK economy 👩💼 Supporting diverse founders: 41% of recipients are women, and 18% are Ethnic Minority founders 💼 An average of one new job per loan issued, in addition to the loan recipient’s 💡 Lifeline for underserved entrepreneurs: 68% of Start Up Loans finance wouldn’t have been possible through mainstream providers. 🌍 UK-wide reach: 73% of supported businesses are outside London and the South East vs 64% of all UK business births Read the full findings here: https://lnkd.in/djhs6wyq