We want to work with you, and we want you to work with us.
We’re a team of freelance consultants working to help our clients create the greatest positive influence on the needs of the people they serve.
We bring experience in charity governance, fundraising, communication, research and advocacy, and have thematic experience in gender, education, sexual and reproductive health, safe motherhood, disability, peacebuilding, and ethical storytelling.
Key to all our work is designing solutions with you, the client at heart. Whatever your size, we look at how your needs fit into a larger picture, and how we can support you to make the biggest impact.
We like to think in solutions, offer an independent line of thought, and help you get things done.
Our Commitment
We believe in a clear and fair relationship with our clients. We’ll strive to maintain excellent standards in the way we work with you, and our commitment maps out what you can expect from us.
We’ll listen to your views
Our clients are also our partners, and as our partners you’ll know a great deal about a specific aspect of our work together. We’re keen to hear your views, and keen to act on your ideas. Share with us what you think, and if your suggestions improve the productivity or efficiency of our business, then we’ll recognise this.
We’ll always give you clear communication
You have a dedicated contact point with whom to handle the relationship, and that if they are away or unavailable, a clear escalation process among the team.
We’ll help when you need it
We’re accessible – we’ll try and support you by flexing our processes to accommodate your needs and resources.
The team
Adrienne Monteath-Van Dok
PRINCIPAL
For the last two decades, Adrienne has worked with commercial corporations, foundations, government agencies, and national and international charities. Her work has focussed on Monitoring, Evaluation and Research, as well as Strategy development, Advocacy and Communications.
Adrienne founded Bloem Consulting in 2018.
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Adrienne is a former Director of Consulting from The Social Innovation Partnership in London, where she led a team of consultants and consulted many organisations on how to improve their programmes through impact measurement.
She has worked with National Health Service King’s College Hospital to measure the effects of intense volunteering in Accident and Emergency services on both patients, staff, and volunteers. She also worked with a cohort of organisations funded by the Money Advice Service (MAS), to measure their financial capability programmes for children and young people.
Previously, Adrienne worked for Plan International, where she helped set up the Global Research and Knowledge Management Team and was the lead researcher on Plan International’s sponsorship database of 1.4 million children A particular focus of her work was on gender, education, and disability. She co-created Plan International’s first global knowledge management strategy and was seconded to help develop the organisation’s most recent five-year strategic plan.
Adrienne has founded and grown several social ventures, among these, Atma Mumbai (an accelerator for education in India, helping numerous NGOs through successful change processes) and the Muktangan Educational Trust (supporting seven schools in India with an innovative education methodology), as well as a community garden.
Outside work, Adrienne combines motherhood and a flower design business.
Languages:
Dutch, English, Spanish, German, and a working knowledge of French.
Nicholas Frost
PRINCIPAL
With 25 years of experience in international development cutting across HIV/AIDS prevention, sexual and reproductive health and safe motherhood, Nick’s work has focussed on programme and project design, management, and evaluation in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia.
Nick joined Bloem Consulting in 2019.
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Working for IPPF/WHR and Marie Stopes International, Nick oversaw and supported the design, provision and promotion of a community-focussed, rights-based approach to sexual and reproductive health service programmes and projects, including HIV prevention and treatment.
Between IPPF/WHR and Marie Stopes International, Nick spent two years working for Population Communications International (now PCI Media), managing Board relations. PCI pioneered behavioural change around improving women’s reproductive health through entertainment-education, socially responsible mass media programmes using television and radio soap operas.
Nick joined Plan International as Programme Specialist Lead within the global internal audit function. In addition to assessing the effectiveness of the management of Plan country programmes, he led the design and application of global indicators and tools to assess the extent to which Plan’s child-centred community development approach to programming was being applied. He assessed (on behalf of external funders) the quality of the design and effectiveness of the implementation of early child care development projects, most recently in Mozambique and Kenya, and in Plan’s Syrian emergency response in Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt. He led the bi- annual assessment of the effectiveness of the application of gender equality and inclusion policies and best practices across the organisation, and Board-commissioned reviews of the organisation’s global monitoring and evaluation capacity.
Prior to leaving the organisation he formed part of a three-person team redesigning Plan’s partnership model approach, and a strategic review of Membership criteria.
Nick is an avid collector of ethnic textiles, and together with his partner is restoring a historic pub in Scotland, which they hope will be fully open soon!
Languages:
English, Spanish, Portuguese, and a working knowledge of French