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I'm heavily involved in the direction and promotion of Saving from Poverty, www.savingfrompoverty.org.uk, set up to help poorer consumers budget and manage debt and at the same time promote financial inclusion and social justice.

The ideal government project, where William Heath uses the phrase “Wouldn’t It Be Better If” (WIBBI) to look at what an ideal government could be like www.idealgovernment.com.

Kable, who are a good source of research on the public sector (they also publish government computing) www.kablenet.com

I work with Alpine, www.Alpine.eu.com, who place influential people into the heart of major public sector change programmes, and am able to contract through the Alpine interim listing on the Catalist framework.

www.conceptshape.co.uk – I've worked for some years with Ian Morton the founder of ConceptShape,who specialise in operationalising strategy. Ian has helped review the “Selling to government” booklet.

Here is a very useful document I’ve been contributing to www.bcs.org/datacode, it’s a simple and easy to read guide that will enable organisations that handle personal data to do so with the minimum of risk and cost.

I’ve edited this EURIM document http://www.eurim.org.uk/activities/pubproc/0904-Good_Practice_in_Procurement.pdf, its a useful guide to politicians and senior civil servants on what they can do to improve the chances that projects will be successful.

I’m branch chairman for the Shropshire branch of the BCS, you can find more about the branch and what we are doing at : http://shropshire.bcs.org/.

For more information or to contact us please phone Peter Buchanan on 07533 241290 or email :- peter.buchanan@blueyonder.co.uk