| JANET
MACKINNON is an independent animateur, consultant and
project developer. Her core professional interests
are:
• The
natural and built environment
• Sustainable
development and regeneration • Planning
and land economy
• The
role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME's)
Her
other interests are literary and cultural studies, and
horse management and training.
She
has masters degrees in Urban and Regional Planning Studies,
and English
Language and Literature from the Universities of London
and Oxford. Brought
up in North Wales, Janet relocated to London in 1983 to
start work for a publishing company.
She
subsequently moved into the environmental, transport and
social housing
sectors, and then into commercial property development,
and business and management consultancy. Janet
became an independent consultant in 1992.
Currently
based in the Midlands, she has worked throughout the UK,
as well
as in Central Europe and Australia. Established
by Janet in 1994, EPONA provides consulting and project
services, primarily for organisations involved in area
regeneration, and especially where there may be an opportunity
for sector or 'cluster' initiatives linked to sustainable
local and regional economic development.
EPONA has worked with craft-based and cultural industries, and
the equestrian and land-based-sectors.
Clients
have typically been property companies, professional services
firms, SME's
and local government, but also community groups and private
individuals.
Assignments
have been undertaken in most of the English regions.
EPONA works as necessary with a number of associates who have
expertise and experience specific to a client’s requirements.
The
consultancy approach is likely to suit clients who favour
real outcomes rather than bureaucratic programmes,
and/or who are motivated by robust projects solutions
rather than positioning for public funding regimes.
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