Consultancy

Rethinking Cities Ltd. provides consultancy advice. We are a small and flexible firm, able to work independently or in collaboration with other consultants. We assist our clients to get the most out of their investment, encouraging them to apply the principles of sustainable development in their direction and delivery, and by introducing them to creative ideas and new ways of working.

We provide advice on environmental and sustainable development, and on education and training.

Our experience has honed and shaped our specific expertise in:

• facilitating community engagement
• helping organisational change
• developing partnerships
• building multi-disciplinary teams
• devising effective communication and marketing strategies
• project managing the development and application of Internet tools

Our clients come from a variety of fields: conservation, disability, health, land use, recreation, tourism, transport and urban design.

Rethinking Cities Ltd. is a proven operator in scoping the motivations and needs of professional institutes, the commercial and public sector, and in formal and informal education. Please do get in touch so we can tailor a team to advise you.

Below are details of projects with which Rethinking Cities have been involved.

Promoting Walking at Work 2

Face-2-face interviewing of staff to determine motivations and improve communication within the primary care trust. Extension of earlier contract to a further 6 health centres - developing local knowledge base and circular walking routes linking nearby destinations.

Client:

NHS Lambeth

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Developing Community Walks

Facilitating a workshop to explore the elements that contribute to a successful community walking project.

Client:

London Transport Museum

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Promoting Safer Active Travel

Lewisham Hospital Foundation Trust commissioned Rethinking Cities to develop appropriate communications to promote safer walking, jogging and cycling amongst hospital staff, visitors and contractors.

Client:	Lewisham Hospital Foundation Trust
Working with:	JAAssociates

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Active Travel Needs Assessment

Conducting more than 150 face-to-face interviews with staff at health centres in Islington to determine their Active Needs. Carrying out an analysis of the data and making recommendations of initiatives to support Islington's Health Champions' Network.

Client:	NHS Islington
Working with:	JAAssociates

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Transport Policy Research

A review of current transport policy and how it impinges on children and young people. Identifying the key contacts and points at which Play England could develop its role as a lobby for children and young people.

Client:	Play England
Working with:	Rob Wheway

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Get Up, Get Out, Get Walking for staff

An innovative walking initiative in which staff at local health centres share knowledge of their local neighbourhood to develop circular walking routes to link local destinations.

Client:	NHS Lewisham
Working with:	Jenny Budd, Lewisham Healthy Walks Coordinator
Download:	Sample circular walk from the Kaleidoscope Centre (575KB)

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Promoting Walking at Work

Action research and User engagement. Creating resources for Workplace health and promoting physical activity and active travel to Primary Care staff.

Client:	NHS Lambeth
Download:	Sample introductory piece to walking at Lower Marsh (962KB)

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Developing strategy for promoting walking

Rethinking Cities undertook research of health and local authorities to assist the Ramblers' Association devise a new strategy for promoting walking

Client:

Ramblers' Association

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South East Excellence Urban Design initiatives

Working as an Associate to the University of Greenwich's Urban Renaissance Institute, Rethinking Cities undertook a review of recent and current initiatives to establish which was still relevant now that a downturn in development is upon us.

Client:

Urban Renaissance Institute

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Get Walking Keep Walking East and South London

Rethinking Cities has recently completed research in the London boroughs of Hackney, Lewisham and Tower Hamlets on behalf of the Ramblers' Association, to situate the roll out of the BIG lottery funded Get Walking Keep Walking initiative.

Client:

Ramblers Association

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Places to Go: Case studies

Commissioned by Play England's Places to Go project, Rethinking Cities carried out research and an evaluation of accessible play spaces.

Client:

Play England

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UniverCities: place based learning

Rethinking Cities Ltd. has been carrying out research into the development of a network of UniverCities based on 2006 Urbanism Award finalists.

Client:

The Academy of Urbanism

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Find your way about

Rethinking Cities Ltd. is devising a street map reading training module to be delivered by staff and volunteers to participants in the Ramblers' Association Get Walking, Keep Walking initiative.

Client:

Ramblers' Association

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Step-o-meter

Providing advice on curriculum applicability and preferred distribution channels for a step-o-meter educational resource.

Client:

Active-Lifestyles Ltd.

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good going – effective communication of travel awareness to a hospital workforce

Researching an effective communication strategy; reviewing successful workforce behaviour change campaigns in hospital. Face to face and telephone interviews were undertaken at seven London hospitals with a range of health professionals and ancillary staff. To complement the research Rethinking Cities Ltd facilitated a roundtable discussion with senior executives.

Client:	Transport for London
Working with:	JA Associates (a marketing consultancy)

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