Testimonials

“A Mendola was engaged to undertake preparatory groundwork for the expansion of our services in Carmarthenshire. This entailed analysis of relevant strategic commissioning documents and interviews with key personnel within Health and Social Services in the County.

Her report was very thorough and provided a very useful insight into development opportunities and recommendations for action.”

A. Roper | Chief Executive - Cartrefi Cymru

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“The work was carried out in a timely and sensitive manner with a clear understanding of the organisations’ need. The resulting report was clear, concise and very useful to the organisation.”

G. Richards | Director - Neath Port Talbot CVS

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"Antonina’s work enabled us to identify organisational strengths and areas for development at all levels in order to make us more fit for purpose. …we were able to direct our work more coherently and consolidate a number of our systems (which were long overdue) in order to forward plan effectively.…we were able to better position the organisation and make it more robust so that it could meet current and future challenges.  This has resulted in the organisation obtaining contracts by using a new tendering process (thereby securing its immediate financial position) including expansion into new areas of work."

S. Lewis | Executive Director - Advocacy Support Cymru

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“Her knowledge and passion is magnetic and when delivering training sessions she quickly has the participants/co trainers engaged and motivated to listen and learn.

As a co trainer she has been encouraging supportive and inspirational to work alongside and has so much experience and understanding that she so readily shares. Her knowledge sharing has been invaluable to me”.

C. Davies | Operations Manager -Glyncoch Community Regeneration Ltd

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“Antonina is an innovative thinker and always tries to seek alternative ways to overcome potential problems. …her energy, innovation and industry throughout this challenging period was a key to moving this important piece of work forward.”

J. Feild | Civil Servant - Department for Working Pensions

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“Antonina  Mendola is contracted by Duffryn Community Link to deliver regular workshop sessions with some of our hardest to reach parents who are experiencing social and emotional difficulties…She works with the parents using tools Neuro Linguistic Programming techniques which she applies in a way that makes them effective with a group who are normally difficult to engage…we are also aware that the school has seen an improvement in behaviour of their children in this period.”

H. Murray | Director - Duffryn Community Link

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Excerpts from DWP & Oxfam Livelihoods Training Project Evaluation

Reflections on the impact of the training

"Overall, staff spoke very positively about the training that they had attended, with participants referring to it giving them greater ‘insight’, ‘awareness’ and ‘reflection’. As one participant stated: ‘It certainly opened my eyes up to some things I probably didn't realise or hadn't really thought about before’. (Focus group 2)”

Authors | Dr Lisa Scullion, Mark Wilding, Katy Jones & Phillip Martin

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“The participants’ response to the training was overwhelmingly positive and the skills of the training facilitator were seen as a key factor in its success”.

Dr Lisa Scullion | Professor of Social Policy - University of Salford

Some Trainee feedback

“Excellent interactive event, very informative, food for thought. Good insight into tools and found candidate discussion very useful. Learnt quite a lot about self also, and how I could use to interact with customers”.

“Loved the interactive sessions. Refreshing to have time to discuss and share ideas with the group. The course tutors were positive and inspiring - lots of anecdotal stories used that definitely added to this learning.”