perspectives

We are a company based in Plymouth with an interest in education and a desire to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship amongst young people.  

Anapoly Ltd is based in Plymouth. Our interests in education and the experience we have in our team led us to work with the Universities of Warwick and Plymouth, and we are currently in discussions with Plymouth Marjon University about how we can assist them.

As a natural corollary, we seek to invest our capabilities in young people who have ideas about innovation and entrepreneurship.  For example by encouraging and supporting them to develop their business ideas and create start-up enterprises.

Anapoly has a small office in the centre of Plymouth with workspace for about 4 people. With mentoring and coaching by Anapoly and other support from the local entrepreneurial ecosystem, this can be a stepping stone for young entrepreneurs as they develop their businesses.
Working separately from the university milieu in a supported environment

We seek, also, to help build social capital within the community, for example by providing technical support for the online activity of a mission community comprising nine Anglican parishes.

Outlined below is some of the experience brought to Anapoly Ltd by its principals.

We are helping a mission community of nine Anglican parishes in Devon to improve the online services which support their work.

We support the development of community-energy schemes for the purchase of three solar farms in Devon, totaling 12.3 MW.

We advised other consultancies on risk management tools and their application

We sponsored a 3rd year student project at Plymouth University to build a proof of concept demonstrator of a long-endurance, remote camera linked to a website for detection of fly tipping. The project considered the balance of performance, endurance, cost and size.

We assisted a startup company move from product formulation to controlled batch production with documented proof of regulation compliance.

We supported Plymouth University’s Professional Entrepreneurial Mentoring Programme. This involved working with individual students over a six-month period to help them explore their business ideas and to guide them in making informed decisions about how best to develop the ideas. The pandemic constrained this effort, nonetheless our student mentees’ business ideas spanned the design and online sale of personal fitness equipment, the operation of a vegan food truck, and  the application of composite materials technology to footbridges.

We supervise research projects carried out by MSc students at Warwick University.
Link to some of the topics researched by our MSc students

Electronic Document & Records Management. To provide a better quality of service, in 2006 Plymouth City Council set out an ambitious Information Management Strategy. This led to a five-year programme of work to implement electronic document and records management. An extensive, competitive procurement resulted in the selection of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services as the platform for this system. At the time this was cutting edge technology whose use involved substantial changes of organisational culture and working practices.
Link to briefing presentation on eDRMS given in 2008 Continue reading “Portfolio”