• Adviser to the Office of the Third Sector to support a rolling three year evaluation of business support services for the social enterprise sector across the UK.
• Advisor to The Aldridge Foundation - The Foundation was established in July 2006 by Rod Aldridge, the founder of the Capita Group, to further the work of his charitable trust. The Foundation is primarily focused on the effects of educational underachievement and social exclusion on the young, but also in removing the barriers to the reform of public services in general.
• Project Board Member for the Business Information Resources - Landscape and Feasibility Study. Working with the British Library Research Team, for the JISC Business and Community Engagment Programme.  
• Evaluation of The Prince's Trust Inspiring Enterprise Activities, funded by BERR. To develop an enterprising outcomes framework and provide a qualitative evaluation on the outcome and impact of current activities.
• Adviser to the Minister and the Social Enterprise Team in the Office of the Third Sector to explore ways of raising awareness of social entrepreneurship amongst young people. This includes work with the HE Sector and NCGE, being a part of the National Steering Group for Social Enterprise Day, and we are working with the Social Enterprise Coalition to engage young people in the VOICE Conference in 2008.
• We have worked with the National Council of Graduate Entrepeneurship to create a tool kit for University Careers Advisers to better understand and explain social enterprise to students. This project was funded by the Office of the Third Sector.
• Research into Best Practice Network Model Replication. Funded by for Enterprise Insight to provide knowledge to support their promotion and growth of business networks across the UK for young entrepreneurs. The Study looked into the infrastructure supporting leading networks across the UK from the Girl Guides to the Women's Institute.
• Research into market sector opportunities for the social enterprise sector in the North West. The project is funded by the North West Regional Development Agency, and we are working in partnership with Regeneris Consultancy .
• The Enterprise Culture Policy Retreat on 12-13 October 2006, hosted by HM Treasury and the Small Business Service. Heather Wilkinson, Founder of Striding Out , was one of fourty individuals invited on a retreat to discuss a fresh and critical perspective to the challenge of creating a step change in enterprise culture in the UK.
• Research for the development of the Newham LEGI Proposal into matters relating to social, female and young entrepreneurship.
• A feasibility study into the development of a Young Entrepreneur Incubator Centre in Bexley, in conjunction with The MacKinnon Partnership .
• Working for The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and UnLtd to develop new learning and development programmes for Social Entrepreneurs.
• Undertook a Market Intelligence Study for Young Entrepreneurs in London for Business Link 4 London , as an associate for Tribal SDP .

The Striding Out Team has worked on consultancy projects over the last seven years. Projects include:-

• Review of the National Social Enterprise Strategy, DTi. Working for GHK to reviewing the five year strategy and business support services for social enterprise
• Gloucestershire Skills First Evaluation, Gloucestershire LSC. Working for EDAW , to undertake the evaluation of the Skills First Project. The project focussed on raising training and skills levels amongst SME’s in the Manufacturing and Engineering Sector.
• Models of Social Enterprise for the CVS in Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire Co-Operative Development Agency. Working for EDAW , to research and develop a framework for community and voluntary organisations to assess suitability to adopt a social enterprise model.
• First Steps for Business in Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire Business Support Network. Working for EDAW , to map and review support for new business start-ups in Northamptonshire, to advise on improving the existing support infrastructure
• Tyne and Wear Social Entrepreneurship Study, Business Link Tyne and Wear . Working for EDAW to map and review social enterprise activity and support infrastructure across Tyne and Wear, and to create a set of recommendations for re-shaping support.
• Basildon Enterprise/Innovation Park, English Partnerships. Working for EDAW to undertake a feasibility study for the development of an enterprise/ innovation park.
• Business in the Community . Commissioned to undertake a review and best practice guide into Corporate Engagement with the Black and Minority Ethnic Community, to inform the BITC Publication, ‘Business Action on Neighbourhood Renewal’.