Our Agile Services

💷 Agile for Earned Income

Discover and build income streams with purpose, not pressure.

Grants can restrict your priorities. Trading can overstretch your team. We help you explore earned income that actually fits — through small, structured sprints that let you learn, adapt, and stay mission-aligned from the start.

At Placebased Agile, we use agile not just to deliver services — but to discover them.
We support your team to test income ideas in the real world, using short loops of feedback, reflection, and iteration. Along the way, we bring in just enough strategy to help you focus without getting stuck in planning.

How It Works

We guide you through an Agile Discovery Sprint, followed by optional support to build your offer using agile delivery methods.

Phase 1: Agile Discovery Sprint

You’ll work in short loops to:

• Identify realistic income opportunities aligned with your mission and capacity

• Develop and test Minimum Viable Offers (MVOs) — digital or in-person, free or paid

• Gather feedback from potential users, partners, or buyers

• Use light-touch tools to prioritise, prototype, and sense what’s viable

🧠 Tools we often draw on (Agile is a framework that works with any tool(s). We'll use the tools that work best for you):

• Value Proposition Canvas – to clarify what your users want

• Business Model Canvas – to explore how value flows and where income fits

• Capability Heatmapping – to check team readiness before committing

• Service Portfolio Mapping – to integrate or reposition existing work

• SWOT or PESTEL – to explore timing and external shifts when helpful

Phase 2: Agile Delivery Support

If an offer proves viable, we help you:

• Prioritise features and delivery components into a manageable backlog

• Set up a light agile rhythm (e.g. weekly sprints, check-ins, retrospectives)

• Coach team leads or delivery partners to build and learn without burnout

You don’t need to build a business plan. You need a structure that helps you move, listen, and adjust.

📦 Example Outcomes

• A pay-what-you-can workshop piloted in a local space

• A simple digital download or resource hub with a donation ask

• A priced pilot for an advice clinic, membership, or training

• A prototype of a consultancy, facilitation, or place-based offer

• Confidence to say no to income streams that don’t align — with good reason

💡 Agile Service Use Cases

• A heritage charity tests a paid archive tour with community-built audio guides

• A youth-focused CIC develops a sliding-scale mentoring offer for local schools

• A climate hub pilots a neighbourhood workshop as a fee-based training for council staff

• A faith-based org co-designs a spiritual wellbeing toolkit with a pay-it-forward option

Why this matters

We don’t believe income should come at the cost of trust, clarity, or care.

We believe core costs matter and prioritise grant independence.

Our agile discovery approach helps you test what’s possible — not just what’s fundable.
You’ll finish with insight, direction, and the right next step for your team.

This is revenue strategy for people who don’t want to become a business — but do want to sustain the work that matters.

🔁Agile for Community Fundraising

Give your community more ways to give — with less guesswork.

We help you design, test, and scale community-driven fundraising ideas without wasted effort or guesswork. You’ll leave with clear next steps, the tools to keep learning, and campaigns that match your team’s energy — not overwhelm it.

Together, we’ll:

• Map your current fundraising assets, efforts, and relationships

• Identify quick, testable ways to invite support — digitally or in-person

• Set up a feedback loop to learn what works (and what doesn’t)

• Pilot one or more Minimum Viable Campaigns (MVCs)

• Coach a fundraising lead to run light-touch sprints independently

How It Works

We guide you through an Agile Discovery Sprint, followed by Agile Delivery Support to launch and grow your campaign using agile delivery rhythms.

Phase 1: Agile Discovery Sprint

In just a few short loops, you’ll:

• Explore fundraising ideas aligned with your values, team capacity, and community relationships

• Develop and test Minimum Viable Campaigns (MVCs) — simple, smart, and quick to launch

• Gather feedback from your local community, supporters, and donors

• Learn what works in the real world (not just what feels urgent)

🧠 Tools we often draw on (we choose based on your context):

• Donor Journey Mapping – to centre relationship-building

• Digital Collection Audit – QR, NFC, JustGiving, and donation flow mapping

• Value Proposition Canvas – to align your asks with what supporters actually care about

• Feedback forms, polls, or short interviews – to shape next steps fast

Phase 2: Agile Delivery Support

If a campaign or tool proves viable, we support you to:

• Set up a light rhythm of test > reflect > refine

• Create a simple backlog of tasks and ideas

• Coach a fundraising lead or community partner to own and adapt the work

• Track impact with minimal admin

📦 Example Outcomes

• A QR-enabled poster campaign in local shops, food banks or mosques

• A community donation jar pilot with NFC touchpoint in a trusted venue

• A low-cost seasonal campaign co-designed with service users

• A peer-led mini-campaign for a specific local need

• A clear sense of what’s worth doing again — and what isn’t

🌱 Why This Matters

Community fundraising shouldn’t feel like cold outreach — or a desperate plan B.
Agile gives you space to start small, learn early, and build trust as you go.

With this approach, you can:

• Focus on supporter relationships, not just income targets

• Make progress without waiting for the perfect moment or big campaign

• Use your tools — and your time — more intentionally

• Build a fundraising culture that fits your team and community

This is for teams who want to treat community fundraising as a system to iterate, not just a campaign to launch.

⚙️ Agile for Internal Processes

Less chaos. More clarity. Simple systems that help your team flow.

We help you visualise your team’s work, set priorities more easily, and reduce bottlenecks using basic agile practices — no expensive software or long change programs required. You’ll leave with a lightweight rhythm your team can actually stick to.

Together, we’ll:

• Map your team’s current workload and workflow

• Introduce a Trello-based Kanban board, prioritisation method, and light backlog

• Establish sprint-style check-ins, weekly planning, and reflection tools

• Coach one or more team members to run these practices on their own

How It Works

We start with a light-touch review of your current ways of working, then help you move toward clarity using agile principles that fit your pace and culture.

Step 1: Team Flow Audit

We listen carefully to how your team currently works:

• What’s on their plates

• Where things get stuck

• How work is tracked, handed off, and delivered

We don’t impose a new system — we co-map your current one and look for what’s already working.

Step 2: Build Your Rhythm

Together, we’ll help your team:

• Set up a shared visual board (with Trello or even on a wall (or a tool of your choice))

• Introduce a simple prioritisation and planning cadence (Kanban)

• Try a lightweight weekly or fortnightly sprint cycle

• Run your first team retrospective in a way that builds safety and trust

Step 3: Embed and Evolve

We coach one or more team members to:

• Own and adapt the rhythm going forward

• Run their own planning and retro cycles

• Update and maintain the system without it falling off

You’ll finish with a structure that supports the way you really work — not a system that collapses under pressure.

📦 Example Outcomes

• A single shared board to track delivery, backlog, and deadlines

• Clearer task ownership across your team

• A weekly “retrospective” ritual to reflect on what’s working and what isn't

• A stronger team rhythm you can actually stick to

🌿 Why This Matters

Most charities and public teams don’t need “transformation” — they need clarity, breathing room, and systems that actually fit their capacity.

Agile helps you:

• Make work visible and reduce hidden stress

• Give your team structure without top-down controls

• Work at a rhythm that reflects your values and workload

• Adapt faster and reflect more often — so change isn’t always reactive

You don’t need to overhaul everything.

You just need a rhythm that helps you deliver what matters — with more focus, less burnout, and more trust in the process.