Experience and Qualifications

KMC Consultancy is a partnership that specialises in working with local authorities to help them develop and improve their greenspace and performance management.  Ken McAnespie set the business up in 1995 and has worked for approximately 200 local authority and housing clients, as well as many private sector clients, since then.

Ken's Qualifications;

M.A. Strategic Leisure Management

Chartered Institute of Marketing Diploma in Marketing

Institute of Leisure and Amenity Management (ILAM) Diploma in Parks and Recreation Administration

Diploma in Management Studies

H.N.D. in Horticulture and Landscape Technology

We have worked on practically everything to do with the strategic development of parks and open spaces, including-

Greenspace Strategies

Management Reviews - local authority and private sector

Streetscene Contracts

PPG 17

Best Value

CPA

DDA

Auditing - including all of the above and Section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act

Benchmarking

Green Flag

Charter Mark

Our strength lies in our ability to innovate.  

First person in the country to get sponsorship for roundabouts in the early 80's. (from British Aerospace)

Assessed the 'value' of the client function as well as that of the contractor in the early 90's, long before Best Value.

Introduced GIS system into an authority in the late 1980's.

Introduced customer care cards to local authorities in the late 80's.

Generated 45.000 members in Maidenhead for the Socially Inclusive Advantage Card Scheme in the mid 90's, which is still held out to be one of the best schemes in the country.

Introduced performance indicators for recording progress in the early 90's