SE2 Ltd services

Our talent is helping you understand the critical questions that you need to discuss with your stakeholders, and to then make sure that discussions give all participants an opportunity to respond.  We design facilitation processes that are realistic, make good use of everyone’s time, and genuinely allow stakeholders to discuss issues that matter to them. SE2 facilitated a VIP round-table dinner for the NHBC Foundation to discuss what new homes might look like in the future and what challenges the house-building industry will need to address in terms of social, climate, technological and demographic changes. The event fed into two Foundation guides for house-builders and the public.

Global change is often borne from local action. We galvanise communities around local priorities – from fuel poverty to sustainable travel – helping build capacity amongst those who can really make a difference. SE2 has been working with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and partners in the health and voluntary sectors since 2008 to design and deliver their fuel poverty referral scheme, Healthier Homes. We have delivered over 60 training sessions to raise awareness of the causes and effects of fuel poverty and to help people make referrals to the Healthier Homes helpline.

Planning should facilitate action. We focus on your needs, outcomes, the resources available and the environment in which you work. We won’t make plans for an ideal world that doesn’t exist (although we may challenge you to do more) but we will create an achievable, realistic plan that has the buy-in of all those who will make it happen. SE2 worked with Hampshire County Council to help them future-proof services against the impacts of climate change. We developed departmental risk maps, a readiness tool and a management tool – all of which fed into an action plan that could be implemented using existing staff resources.

Our thorough approach to research gathers academic, technical, social and financial quantitative data, alongside qualitative feedback from thought leaders, practitioners and other stakeholders, providing you with strong foundations on which to build action. The Low Carbon Networks Fund saw investment of £500m in thirteen “smart grid” projects looking at demand side management.  On behalf of Citizens Advice, SE2assessed the projects in terms of their impacts on consumers, particularly looking at impacts on fuel poor or hard-to-reach households.

We want to make policy that delivers. We do this by taking all evidence into account, mapping that to policy goals and identifying the things that will make a real difference to your organisation. SE2 worked with Community Energy England to scope how a one stop shop for community energy – as announced in DECC’s Community Energy  Strategy – could be delivered.  We were commissioned to talk to the sector to find out what they really wanted and scope out what a one stop shop or information resource might look like, how it could be structured and funded and what it might include: the result is the Community Energy Hub.