Feedback from our collaborators

“Janice has been of great help to me as I work through setting up my social enterprise. Her knowledge, enthusiasm, support and generosity of time is greatly appreciated. Knowing that others can see and appreciate your vision provides that extra bit of belief that you can often lack when setting up something by yourself ! Thank you.”

“We needed to start looking at KPIs to help monitor, shape and inform our practice as well as meet the requirements for funding bodies. As complete Excel novices this scared us massively and we had no idea where to start. Janice firstly got to know us as individuals and how we work. She then took on the knowledge of our service and used this to help us create our outcomes which we thought would be a huge challenge given the nature of work that we do… Janice achieved this with ease!”

“Janice is incredibly approachable, understanding, insightful and thorough. Her approach is methodical, simple and patient. We had multiple questions due to our Excel fears but Janice sat with us explaining each section and its use. We also asked other questions regarding adding other sheets of data and no question was too much. We would highly recommend Owl XL CIC!”

The support we have had from Owl XL CIC has been exceptional, especially around the topic of social impact. Not only have they helped make our social impact reporting more robust, they have inspired us to champion the importance of social reporting. To this end we recommend Owl XL CIC wherever and whenever possible. On a personal level the delivery of support that we get from one individual to another is beyond personable. It's like a gift that keeps giving with many layers.

“Instantly makes more sense and my visual plan is so much easier to complete. Super, brilliant! I have so much respect for you both.”

“This is the first time I have related to the planning process and the importance of being able to say why I am doing Eve Expeditions CIC.”

"Janice was very helpful in helping me develop an overall business plan for Compassionate Cuppa. Some of the terminology in the business model was confusing to me at first. Janice and I met to discuss what changes I was looking to effect with the people I was seeking to support, which helped me clarify which parts of our conversation related to the Social Business Model Canvas. While I largely completed the registration on my own, Janice had checked the CIC form for any omissions or errors, as well as guidance on the Articles of Association. From all the support, my attempt to register Compassionate Cuppa as a CIC as successful on its first attempt."

Toucan have developed so much now they have a 5 year business plan with outcomes in place.

“Janice provided Planet Aware CIC with support to help the CIC work out its future direction and focus at a challenging time. What we achieved with her help in the space of a couple of hours would have taken the CIC a few days to work through without her help. I would highly recommend Janice to you if you are a social enterprise looking for guidance on your next steps and direction.”

"Janice from Owl XL CIC supported the senior leadership team at Action Hampshire charity, holding strategic planning sessions to review the strategic plan. Through the sessions and subsequent follow up work, Janice brought her considerable insight to assist the team to provide greater clarity around priorities and importantly, ensuring measurable outcomes for all activities undertaken. She helped to streamline previous plans and summarise strategic priorities into a ‘dartboard’ format to give a good visual summary of Action Hampshire’s work. This was supported by a detailed business scorecard and matrix of support along with improved and measurable reporting to the Board. “Janice asked difficult questions and left no stone unturned in order to help Action Hampshire to achieve greater strategic clarity and efficiency in the organisation. I would highly recommend any organisation to work with Janice and realise the value she will bring to achieve your goals. Thank you Janice for all the support you gave to Action Hampshire!”

“I have worked with Janice from Owl XL on two projects producing impact assessments for our work. Her ability to get to the heart of the outcomes we are trying to achieve is really excellent. Every project should build Owl XL CIC into it!”

Found chats with Tim and planning yesterday has definitely refocused me and in turn the team. Team Mason amazing skills.

This is amazing. Thank you so much. To have all the work we done, and the outcomes recorded and presented like this is wonderful. Can really see what we are achieving with those we are trying to reach.