Jon Collins Consulting Ltd

With 32 years' experience as a local Councillor and 16 years' experience as a Council Leader, Jon Collins has a detailed understanding of how local government works and how decisions are made. Jon and his team of experts have an abundance of experience working on projects that include the management of finance, property, regeneration, transport, economic development, city centre master planning, stakeholder engagement and education. This also includes the involvement in partnerships including D2N2 (the Local Enterprise Partnership), East Midlands Councils, Midland Connect and Midland Engine, Nottinghamshire Police Authority as Chair, East Midlands HS2 Programme Board as Chair, Vice-Chair of the UK Core Cities and as an LGA City Regions board member. This means that the team is able to also offer a unique insight into the way Strategic Partnership Boards work and have contact with local decision makers across the midlands and the rest of the UK. Jon Collins Consulting is able to offer advice and insight into the way public and private sector bodies interact with local government. To public sector organisations, it can offer political leadership and executive mentoring, stakeholder and private / public relationship management, policy advice, development and strategic implementation, and organisation health and governance checks. The team can also consult on community engagement, campaign planning and organisation, and public presentation, which involves media engagement and management. For private sector businesses, Jon Collins Consulting can advise on how to engage with councils buying and selling assets, how decisions are made and how to present successful bids, local community liaison, and planning and licensing policy and decisions. It can also provide consultation for policy insight and advice, funding and grant support, and public sector purchasing and procurement behaviours.