About Us

Liz Austin Project Consultancy is a small, friendly, affordable consultancy business which aims to understand your needs and help you achieve your goals.  We won’t bombard you with technical jargon or try to confuse you into doing something you don’t really want and we’ll only be involved for as much or as little as you feel you need us. 

Our aim is to take the stress out of your project, whatever that project may be, by offering affordable advice, helping you to help yourself and being someone to call on whenever needed.  We believe that helping you to understand the processes and setting you up for the future is far more beneficial than simply doing it all for you (although we can do that too if you prefer!).  We can have as much or as little input into your project as you like.

Liz Austin is a Leisure Professional with over 20 years experience in the Sport and Leisure Industry.  Her experience covers Health and Fitness, Sports Development, Operations and General Management in both the private and public sectors, National Governing Body experience and Project Management on a wide range if different sports and non-sports projects.  Liz’s leisure experience has been easily transferred to non-sports projects including shop fitting, office refurbishment and VIP area refurbishment.

Capital projects Liz has worked on include:

• Involvement in the construction of 2 major multi-million pound sports facilities
• Health and Fitness Facilities (specification for area and procurement of equipment)
• Indoor Sports Halls
• Outdoor Multi-Use Games Areas (MUGA)
• Swimming and Hydrotherapy Pools
• Changing accommodation
• Indoor and outdoor tennis courts
• Office design and refurbishment
• VIP areas
• Shop conversion

Liz has assisted a number of sports clubs ranging from small volunteer run clubs to large commercial clubs in the writing of simple, effective and useful business plans which help them to identify their direction and goals and clearly set out plans to achieve them.

Liz’s Operations Management experience spans many years and comes from a variety of different backgrounds.  Liz was the operational lead in the development of a large multi-million pound sports facilities where she:

• Wrote Standard Operating Procedures and Emergency Action Plans from scratch
• Wrote the staffing structure and job descriptions and recruited the entire operational team
• Wrote the programming strategy and managed all the pre-booking for indoor and outdoor facilities
• Conducted Risk Assessments and wrote health and safety practices
• Produced and managed budgets and cashflow forecasts

Since then Liz has put this and her previous knowledge and experience to excellent use, advising on a variety of issues to clients ranging from small volunteer run clubs to large professionally managed clubs.

Specific references are available in our Portfolio and References section