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Technical & digital consultancy for charities and NGOs.
Carbon accounting. Digital infrastructure. WordPress. Project management. Grant writing. One consultant. No committee.
Technical & digital consultancy for charities and NGOs.
Carbon accounting. Digital infrastructure. WordPress. Project management. Grant writing. One consultant. No committee.
The carbon transition has created a significant demand for a type of consultant that does not, in any practical sense, exist: someone who understands both the science of greenhouse gas accounting and the unglamorous reality of making a WordPress site work. Most organisations resolve this by hiring two people who do not talk to each other, or one person who is quietly baffled by half the job.
Adam Hardy is the other option. Twenty years in software engineering, followed by five years directing EcoCounts, a London-based citizen carbon reduction charity, have produced an unusual combination of capabilities. Carbon footprint methodology, or whatever the requirement you have, and the system to track it can be handled in the same conversation.
Supply chain emissions, Scope 3, your organisational carbon footprint - measuring things most organisations would prefer not to know, then working out what to do about them.
Domains, hosting, email accounts, cloud storage, backup systems, and security. The infrastructure most organisations rely on without fully understanding. Getting it in order is less exciting than it sounds and more important than it appears.
Site builds, redesigns, plugin updates, hosting migration, security hardening. The average small charity website has been worked on by seven different people, none of whom left any notes.
Keeping digital projects from becoming somebody else's problem.
Many charities write compelling cases for support and then lose marks on the specification. This is fixable.
The kind of structured thinking that larger organisations take for granted - funding strategy, workplans, governance, stakeholder management - applied at a scale that actually fits. Brought to you by someone who has done it, rather than someone who has read about it.
Most organisations that have made a net zero commitment do not yet have a clear path to it. This is not as surprising as it sounds. What is surprising is how straightforward the path becomes once someone sits down and draws it.
Facilitated workshops that help teams and communities understand climate change and their role in it. Includes Climate Fresk, the evidence-based card game used by over a million people worldwide. Better than spending a year dead for tax purposes, and considerably more useful.
Twenty years as a software engineer across finance and payments, including BP, UBS, and BNP Paribas. Five years as non-remunerated Director of EcoCounts, a community carbon footprint tracking charity operating across Camden, Islington, Hackney, and Haringey, with UCL academic partnerships.
If you have a project that needs both a spreadsheet and a conscience, get in touch.
adam.hardy@cyberspaceroad.com