Charles had brilliant knowledge and a really great way of helping us understand processes and ways of improving what we do. Thank you for a great day. Very informative and have taken away a lot from the day

It was a really good day – it refreshed some knowledge, added some new things and was helpful in setting baseline expectations for our next bid. Thanks for the day.

Very good. Very relevant and bespoke to our business needs.

Thank you. Very useful!

Course was informative and tailored to our needs

It was relaxed and I didn't feel, because I have no previous experience, that my input was irrelevant. It was good to have our own experiences considered and to receive relevant advice.

Very good, clear and concise. A simple way of explaining a complicated procedure

Understanding, professional and informative

Interactive, informative, clearly knows is subject and felt able to challenge

Content was informative. Always good when there is a relaxed atmosphere

Very informative. Interesting information to take away to go back over later. Lots of tips and ideas on how to get people involved at work. Very approachable trainer. More comprehensive than other courses. Got loads of useful information. Thanks a million!

Despite having worked on successful bids in the past, it was great to hear and understand how they can be made even better in the future. It was also good to understand where we may have lost "points" on unsuccessful bids in the past due to missing or poor information.

The information offered was clear, concise and delivered very well. I will indeed be putting some of the useful hints, tips and advice into action, and drawing out those benefits.

Excellent training. Will be very useful to supporting us in fine tuning our bid process and writing moving forwards.

Clearly knowledgeable on subject matter. Suggestions that are currently in use and not hypothetical. Very informative, useful course. Thank you!

Well balanced, good pace and well focussed. I have learned a considerable amount of new knowledge and will put it in to practice going forward

Thank you for the session last week- I’ve definitely picked up some useful tips that will help on future tenders both from the writing and bid management perspective.

It tackled some of the items we have been struggling with, especially the Bid/No Bid. I have done an Achilles course before and this was 100% better.

Excellent course. I enjoyed it!

Following on from the course, we wrote a bid for a Town Council to the value of 80k which we have been successful with, scoring full marks, so the course has been well worth it!

I enjoyed the activities and discussion topics throughout the day as it allowed the sharing of ideas from people in different sectors and companies. I found the tasks useful to apply what I had learnt during the day.

Excellent course and a very enjoyable way of gaining new information. Thank you Charles!

Exceeded my expectations. Thank you!

Thorough and sufficient detail provided an overall excellent use of my time

Excellent methodical teaching - hitting home all of the important points. Great venue and food!

Great course. Super helpful, thanks!

The course really helped, especially with my confidence as I had kind of fallen into this sector and was unsure of what I was doing but your course really helped me feel I can do this!

I liked how each area could relate to all of our workplaces, even though we are all in totally different industries. Really enjoyed it

I thoroughly enjoyed the Bid Writing course that you delivered last week. It went above and beyond my expectations and I took a lot from it, so I can’t thank you enough

Very informative. Useful information to improve my bid writing. Thank you. Found this course useful.

Very interesting. A realisation of the effort needed to prepare a professional proposal

A really enjoyable training course. Charles is a professional.
It was an excellent day. I have to say it was nice to listen to someone with a real passion for what they do.

Useful and will the taking a lot away. Really great, thank you!

All of the content very useful. Great mix of presentation, exercise and discussion. Thank you very much.

Thank you so much for yesterday, it really was a great training course. I would say the best I have experienced so far. The APMP foundation is great and you are provided with lots of information prior to the training day to read through, then on the day, you go over certain areas but not all. I could see that the content of your course yesterday included some of the areas from the APMP guidelines but what was great was that we looked into it further and applied it to our own scenarios and the question we developed throughout the day.

Great experience! The course I took in London was top-notch and Charles was great at conveying all the key concepts in such a clear way. I will definitely recommend it to my colleagues. 100% recommended!

Clear, good insights in to how to improve writing that I have never thought of before

Very informative.The tasks throughout the day made the theory side come together.

We have been awarded a £400k contract win today (£400k), the bid adopted many features picked up in the training Charles delivered a few weeks ago! Many thanks for your help and my colleague is now also booked on the course.

It was a very well delivered seminar, tailored to meet our needs when completing PQQs/ITTs. I will put several items of the program in to practice to improve our presentation of bids.

Enjoyed the 2 days. The presenter was obviously experienced and knowledgeable about the subject

Just wanted to send you a quick email to thank you for the expert advice you offered on the above course. I found the course to be very insightful and I learned lots of new skills which I’m already putting to good use.

Good atmosphere, great content and well delivered. Great clarity and relevant. Recommended.

Very knowledgeable presenters. It was good to address the rail specifics. Much more useful than a "catch all" bid course

A lot more indepth than other training courses

The course was very engaging and informative. Charles kept the day on track but made everyone feel relaxed and allowed everyone to openly discuss points.

Thank you for opening my eyes to the world of tenders. I'm excited to go back to the office and put it into practice.

A speaker who new "his stuff" - it was very different to some courses I have been on. He was able to answer ALL of our questions and queries. I have learned a lot and have much more confidence in my bid writing skills.

Fantastic. Great tutor - very energetic and engaging. Very useful examples, techniques of bids, along with practical activities. Thank you!

The course was of a high standard led by knowledgeable presenters

Having worked with Thornton & Lowe before, it was interesting to fully understand the flow of bid writing. Great day. Thank you. Will take a lot from today.

A wake up call on what the client expects to see in a bid. Presenter was very engaging and easy to listen to

Great presentation by Charles. Good structure to the days. Covered multiple areas

Much better than others. More engaging and plenty of relevant materials.

The whole workshop was good. The presenter was interacting with the attendees well. I liked the fact the presenter focused mainly on talking from experience rather than from the PowerPoints

Very good. Covered all aspects, a lot more than I expected. Full detail across all different areas.

This course was far more useful than the previous course I have attended, with much more detail

Very informative by someone who does the actual job - rather than just a trainer

Thank you so much for the last 2 days – it was a great learning experience for us all - your teaching style put lots of issues skilfully back to us to think about and this seemed to work well. You’ve renewed my passion for writing tenders and I will be much more prepared for the Bid/No Bid pressures when they next come up. I’m putting together my Bid Pipeline today and I vow to stick to it. I also have a flow chart wall and have encouraged people to think about their own working processes in this way to enable my library to grow.

I think I ended up with about 15 action points and I am committed to doing it all.

Great delivery-approach and content, great group and contributions. Thanks again Charles

Enjoyed the sessions and quite a diverse group with different experience levels which was good.

Very detailed, lots of examples, not rushed

Very good. Casual way of training, in a small group - lots of interaction and discussion. Not boring! Everything was discussed and spoken through. Very interactive and relatable.

Thoroughly enjoyed the course. Simple and easy to follow. Relaxed atmosphere and conducive to improving my knowledge.

Being reminded of the basic procedures was very useful. Also case study was beneficial in understanding what the examiner is looking for.

The pace and style was perfectly executed. It was great to talk to like-minded people from other industries. Our trainer, Charles, was first class

I had the introduction to bidding training in March - this followed on well and gave me the information I needed. The information was clearly explained and there was opportunity for discussion as to how this is applicable to us in different roles across the business

So useful! I will definitely be taking it back with me and applying it as much as I can.
In terms of bid writing courses, I have been on one other but this was by far the best. A lot of different people could get value from it - no matter what sector.
Charles is ace! Kept me interested all the way through. Thank you!

I have to say it was one of the best CPD courses I’ve ever attended. Really engaging and incredibly useful – especially so for me who has very little knowledge or experience of the bidding process – I thought the content was pitched at the ideal level.

Engaging trainer. Logical and common sense approach to the subject. All content useful and easy to follow. Hands on activities particularly useful. Good central venue. Learnt plenty.

It removed the ideas learned previously but also built on it with new ideas and information

Very useful course with lots of useful tips. Charles was able to answer questions thrown out

Thanks again for Thursday. We both found it really useful, so much so I spent Friday morning working with the previous owner to establish what procedures/policies we had or didn't have and agree an update program. See you next Thursday

Amazing! We have won several contracts since attending and put it down to the training we received.

Thank you. You've opened my eyes to a whole new way of working in relation to bid writing - feel far more positive about the process. Engaging. Excellent trainer.

Clear & concise - a lot more than I thought.

Will be able to use all the info. Thank you very much

One of the best I have attended. It was clear and easy to understand. All Round a great course. Much better than I expected.

Excellent delivery by someone with great expertise

So much useful information, tips, good practice. The days went so quickly. I really enjoyed the course and learnt a lot. I`m actually looking forward to completing my first bid!!

Bids & tenders are very new to me, so overall it was all useful. Great presentation - interactive, relaxed and enjoyable

This course helped me understand and apply the principles of writing a winning bid. I recently completed my APMP Foundation training & qualification and saw this course as the next step as it was far more practical and hands-on, as well as much more bid writing focussed. Made me passionate about going back to work.

I have learned a lot about the bid writing process. It was helpful to know which areas would need improvement and where I could be going wrong. It had less of a classroom feel to it. The training was very knowledgeable and friendly.

I really liked & found the real-life examples, audience participation & activities useful to me. It was casual but covered a lot! It was much better than most other courses I have been on. Thank you for all your help & engagement!

Following on from the course, we wrote a bid for a Town Council to the value of 80k which we have been successful with, scoring full marks, so the course has been well worth it!

Very easy to understand and well explained. Would highly recommend.

This was really informative and helpful. It answered a lot of questions and got to the point.
The interaction, format and the flow was great. I learnt a lot of new tips to help with the process

I found the guidance on layout and presentation most useful. We learned how to best answer a question, in future when won’t use 100 words when 10 will do

Very engaging and easy to understand. Enjoyed the group discussions. Nice relaxed, informal environment

Thoroughly enjoyed the course. Taken more away from this than other courses

Well structured, informative and really useful! Helped me identify gaps where we need to improve.

Really impressed. Way above and beyond other courses. Love the content relating to best practise!

Really interesting. It's given me lots of tips and processes to think about and implement.

Everything was very informative. I've picked up so much that we will benefit from. One of the best (most informative) course I've been on. Trainer was great - very knowledgeable and put across all info really well to all

Charles was very clear and concise and hit the nail on lots of bid topics.

Clear and concise explanation of the whole tender process from start to finish.
Interaction through both days was very good.

Charles's teaching method is very engaging and no-nonsense. Very punchy and no waffle. Well structured. Really informative and extremely useful. Very relevant to my day-to-day job. I really enjoyed the 2 days. I learned way more than I could have imagined.

Great course! I left with a good understanding of tenders and am feeling confident. I liked the examples given and the exercises.

Excellent course. Great day. The course has given me a good overall view of objective bid writing. Charles was great in delivery. One of the best courses I have been on. Great structure & content

Very good knowledge that was shared with the group. He could easily answer all questions regardless of specific areas. Much better than other courses I have been on. Very pleased with the training course. I would recommend to others.

Very good and informative course. Many thanks

10/10. It was useful and helped apply the knowledge to bids in our company. Great trainer

Course was thorough - covered some slightly different aspects from other training that I have been on. The course was useful, and it was enjoyable too which helps!

I have really enjoyed the course and it was packed with relevant and useful content. Charles was an excellent trainer, highly knowledgeable and highly engaging, creating a great environment in which to learn