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Tim Dwelly, Andy Lake and Stephen Aitken
at West Ferry live/work scheme
Tim Dwelly
Director
timdwelly@liveworknet.com
In addition to his role as Director of the Live Work Network, Tim is also director of Tim Dwelly in Partnership, a leading economic development and regeneration consultancy. Clients include DCLG, DTI, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Housing Corporation, Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, Social Exclusion Unit, Peabody Trust, Places for People Housing Group, the Tomorrow Project, Smith Institute and the Work Foundation.
He has written a number of leading reports on live/work and related subjects, including:
- Homes that Work - housing associations as live/work providers
(Housing Corporation, September 2003) - Under the radar - tracking and supporting home based businesses
(Commission for Rural Communities 2006) - Living at work – a new policy framework for modern home workers
(Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2000) - Time to go home – embracing the home work revolution
(Work Foundation May 2003) - Work/live – the West Ferry approach to business incubation
(Peabody Trust 2001) - Rural live/work
(Commission for Rural Communities 2006) - New Deal for Communities annual reviews 2000/01 and 2001/02 (DTLR 2001, ODPM 2003)
- Disconnected – social housing tenants and the home working revolution
(Housing Corporation 2002) - Neighbourhood Renewal Unit annual review 2001/02
(NRU 2002) - Rethinking social housing
(Smith Institute, 2006)
Live Work Network has produced viability studies and acted as consultants to a number of developers of live/work developers and commissioners, including Places for People Group, Spaceworks, Peabody Trust, Rural Business Homes, the Duchy of Cornwall, LIDA, Wharfside Regeneration, Edward Blake Ltd, Ross-on-Wye Market Town Initiative, Brockhall Village Ltd, Poltair Homes, Rosemullion Homes, Landmarque and Primetower
Tim was also founding chairman and director of Digital Peninsula Network Ltd, a West Cornwall business support agency with a resource centre servicing over 200 SMEs including 70 unemployed members in the ICT/knowledge/creative sectors. The agency has received over £1m in funding, including ERDF, DTI innovative cluster fund grant, RDA business grants and local authority support.
more on Tim
Andy Lake
Associate
andylake@liveworknet.com
Andy is a partner with HOP Associates (HOP), a leading consultancy working in the field of developing new ways of working using information and communications technology (ICT). In the Live Work Network he provides expertise on ICT, transport and land use issues and new ways of working.
Andy has worked with clients including the BBC, Toshiba, Department for Transport, Debenhams, ICI, the European Commission, Scottish Enterprise and numerous local authorities. As well as working with larger organisations, Andy has worked with TECs, LECs and Business Link to advise on the use of ICT in small and medium-sized enterprises and not-for-profit organisations.
As well as implementation work, Andy has a track record of innovative research into the impacts of ICT on society which includes:
- working in one of the DfES ‘Wired Communities’ projects, in Alston, Cumbria, a project aimed at overcoming the ‘digital divide’ by equipping households (650 so far) with ICT equipment and broadband connection (2001 to present)
- being a partner in researching and writing the ODPM best practice guide Using ICT to Help Support Regeneration Objectives (2001)
- providing ICT consultancy to the EC TACIS MERIT project, bringing new work opportunities to former mining areas in Russia (2000)
- the DfT project The impacts of ICT on travel and freight distribution patterns (www.virtual-mobility.com), an extensive literature review and database (2002-3)
- Telecommuting: The Implications for Local Authorities, a multi-client study carried out for a consortium of UK local authorities in 1995-6
- Travel Plans - Guides for Suppliers, a project for the DfT culminating in the production of several guides including use of ICT for travel reduction.
Andy is the Editor of Flexibility, an online journal of new ways of working (www.flexibility.co.uk), and in partnership with Toshiba co-authored, The Complete Guide to Flexible Working (2001), a comprehensive guide to the use of ICT for innovative working.
Further information on Andy can be found on the Flexibility website, at: www.flexibility.co.uk/about
Stephen Aitken
Associate
stephenaitken@liveworknet.com
Stephen Aitken is an innovation and strategy consultant to Government, business and academia. An industrialist with experience in business development and marketing, he has advised Government on policy and strategy at central and regional levels and business start-ups and SMEs.
He is a member of UKBI (UK Business Incubation) where he has presented London’s Incubation strategy and made the comparative assessment of West Ferry as an incubator in Work/live – the West Ferry approach to business incubation (Peabody Trust 2001 - see above).
Whilst on secondment to the DTI Innovation Unit he ran a working party, which investigated innovative workspace - real and virtual - and included members from DEGW, David Leon Partnership, ICL and Sainsbury’s. He contributed on a wide range of projects carrying out research and promoting ideas on best practice in innovation including: Partnership with People, Higher Education Winning with Business, Partnerships in the Community, Young Enterprise, Graduate Enterprise, Managing and Reporting Intellectual Assets, and Millennium Products.
Stephen has been interim Innovation Manager for the LDA and also a member of the DTI's Foresight team responsible for promoting its findings in the London Region. He has been responsible for the design and development of several websites and has organised a series of conferences in London.
David Blackman
news editor
0208 208 1565
davidblackman@liveworknet.com
Lisa Thompson
briefings editor
01732 750433
lisathompson@liveworknet.com
John Cowles
associate consultant, ICT adviser
01736 368254
livework@altcom.co.uk
Dan Bloomfield
research associate
01208 863806
danbloomfield@liveworknet.com
Sarah Graham
administration
0870 550 9191
office@liveworknet.com
Vicky Brewis
researcher
01736 351331
vickybrewis@liveworknet.com
Liz Wakeham-Jones
head of marketing
0845 3245717
lizwjones@liveworknet.com
