Heaward Solutions can draw on many years of funding, sports development and project management experience as well as a strong background in key allied areas. We have also assembled a team of experienced specialist partners whose support we can draw upon when needed to provide clients with a comprehensive service.

Leading our team, Andrew is a graduate of Bradford University having completed a BA (Hons) in Community Studies (Leisure & Recreation). He is also currently completing an MBA course at Keele University.

Andrew’s career launched in 1994 working for Teignbridge District Council before moving to a more senior role at Devon County Council. Both posts focused on sport, leisure and youth work. At Devon County Council his role included developing an innovative outdoor pursuit’s based youth empowerment project. There he discovered his talent for fundraising and project-based work successfully securing his first major grant, £30,000 to fund one of the Royal Yachting Associations’ first mobile Topper dingy fleets.

Andrew is a full member of the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity and the Institute of Fundraising and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.