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Robust business cases and appraisal processes provide the evidence needed to make confident investment decisions and maximise the impact of funding.

Whether you are developing a proposal for investment or assessing applications for funding, a strong evidence base helps demonstrate value, impact and deliverability. It enables organisations to build compelling cases for support and helps funders identify initiatives that best align with their objectives and deliver meaningful outcomes.

What We Do

  • Development of HM Treasury Green Book-compliant business cases
  • Economic appraisal and options assessment using the Five Case Model.
  • Stakeholder engagement, robust evidence gathering and analysis to strengthen the evidence base
  • Collaborative working to develop proposals, assess applications and strengthen investment decisions.
  • Sector-specific expertise across economic, social and community initiatives.

Case Studies

Understanding investment choices for Smart Local Energy in North Wales
Ambition North Wales

Understanding investment choices for Smart Local Energy in North Wales

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Key Contacts

Declan Turner

Associate Director

Declan Turner

Associate Director

declan.turner@wavehill.com
0330 1228658

Declan is an Economist and Associate Director at Wavehill with a background in project delivery and local government, working in economic development. Bringing various data analysis and economic modelling skills to the team, Declan is an accredited ONS researcher, Declan manages a range of project areas at Wavehill including business support and innovation, employment and skills, renewable energy and place based regeneration. Declan also works across the Wavehill portfolio supporting value for money assessments, including for wellbeing and cultural led initiatives.

Interested in economics for its practical application to ensure resources are being used efficiently and benefits maximised, providing clear project impacts, Declan specialises in quantitative research and using national and international literature and policy to support local economic development. He has led on a number of business cases, funding bids and strategy development, as well as economic impact assessments and a range of project evaluations and policy research. His previous projects include local and national pieces for clients in the private, public and third sector, including Welsh Government and central government departments.

With a 1st Class degree in Economics and Politics, Declan is skilled in report writing and carrying out policy research, manipulating and modelling data in Microsoft Excel, Power BI and ArcGIS and undertaking comprehensive survey designs using Qualtrics.

Originally from Devon, Declan works out of the Wavehill Bristol Office and in his spare time plays national league hockey, while enjoying running, climbing, mountain biking and weekends away in his van.

Stuart Merali-Younger

Director

Stuart Merali-Younger

Director

stuart.merali-younger@wavehill.com

Stuart has 18 years’ experience working in economic development, regeneration and related fields, as both a practitioner and consultant. He has worked in consultancy for 12 years, managing and directing delivery of evaluations, appraisals, economic impact assessments and economic strategies, for clients including central government, local authorities, local enterprise partnerships and universities. He brings expertise across a range of policy areas, including business and sector support, research and innovation, physical regeneration, energy & low carbon studies and culture-led regeneration.

Prior to consultancy work, Stuart worked for six years in local authorities in North and East Yorkshire and Cheshire, co-ordinating partnership strategy and project delivery in market town renaissance programmes and for a community safety partnership.

Stuart completed his undergraduate degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, before going on to a Masters in Local and Regional Regeneration. He is also a member of the Institute of Economic Development and the UK Evaluation Society.

Outside of work he is a keen traveller, tennis player and long-suffering Nottingham Forest fan.

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