Gary Parker

CNT Associates is a community and business services company in the UK, working with clients from the private, public, community and non-profit making sectors. We deliver fundraising, business support, training, business development and research services to SME’s, social enterprises, housing associations, colleges, schools, local authorities and community and civil sector organisations.

Our fundraising work includes writing grant applications, funding bids and tenders, to access grants, loans, contracts and social investment. To date we have obtained approximately £30m in funding for clients.

Our business support and development work helps organisations, businesses and charities to start up, manage growth and develop their services.
We regularly run a mixture of free and paid for training online and live. Training topics include bid writing for beginners, funding for your business, opportunities for E-commerce, setting up Shopify, support for women-led businesses / health and wellbeing projects / creative industry projects and many more.
We have a wide variety of business training topics that can be tailored to the specific needs of a client too and run at their premises.

We have worked with the British Library to run training events for them as well as providing fundraising training for students at the Jimmy Choo Academy in London. We have a long track record of working with London councils, particularly Bexley, Greenwich and Bromley councils, in providing business support to SME's.

What We Do

CNT Associates and its consultants have worked on a wide range of assignments on a partnership basis with many different organisations in the private, public and voluntary sectors in areas including:

 Fundraising & fundraising training
 Business support for SME’s, social enterprises and the civil sector
 Business & management development
 Community development & capacity building
 Strategic consultancy, project management & support
 Training delivery and development

Previous Partners/Clients include:

• British Library
• Jimmy Choo Fashion Academy
• Bridge Mental Health
• Visit Greenwich
• SE London Chamber of Commerce
• GLL/Better
• Bexley Adult Education College/ Learning Centre Bexley
• Bexley Council
• Westminster Council
• Social Enterprise UK
• Charlton Athletic Community Trust
• Maidstone Innovation Centre
• Greenwich University
• Stonewall Housing Association
• Bexley Accessible Transport Scheme
• Greenwich University