1 / 14

Being Enterprising

Being Enterprising. St Vincent Support Centre. St Vincent’s – charitable activities. Free support for families experiencing poverty & disadvantage. Core services include: Debt advice (500 beneficiaries p.a. Costs £60k) Counselling and CBT (100 benef’s. Costs £35k)

cole-lynch
Download Presentation

Being Enterprising

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Being Enterprising St Vincent Support Centre

  2. St Vincent’s – charitable activities Free support for families experiencing poverty & disadvantage. Core services include: • Debt advice (500 beneficiaries p.a. Costs £60k) • Counselling and CBT (100 benef’s. Costs £35k) • Adult education, job support, ESOL (500 benef’s. Costs £40k) • Supported volunteering programme (100 benef’s. Costs £40k)

  3. Income 2011/12 (approx £300k) 10% 12% 55% 8% 15%

  4. Enterprise attempts to date… Struggles to break even. More of a service than a business due to target audience Community Cafe Second hand shop High volunteer costs, staffing costs. As above, more of a service than a business due to client group Charging for counselling Compromised ethos of St Vincent’s Developing Yorkshire Community Co-operative (Y-CoCo) Great potential but lack of track record making it difficult to secure first contract Good launch last month, positive media coverage and in the first 2 weeks generated over £2k. Corporate launch planned with Ed Balls fronting. Hour Leeds Charging social housing providers for priority access for tenants to our debt services, provide financial literacy education to tenants, and basic debt advice training for housing staff. Working with 2 s.h.a. so far. Commissioning debt services

  5. Becoming enterprising Using and building upon our existing retail experience,volunteer workforce, and access to donated goods… Launching an trading operation

  6. Becoming enterprising Building on a service we currently run internally only at St Vincent’s: Develop a Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) service

  7. The last 3 months….

  8. The last 3 months….

  9. The last 3 months….

  10. The last 3 months….

  11. The last 3 months….

  12. The last 3 months…. Securing staff and contracts: • Advertised & shortlisted for social enterprise co-ordinator • Verbal agreements for PAT testing contracts with: • Locala CIC (formerly Kirkless Community Healthcare Services) • Eight voluntary sector organisations across Leeds • Ebay regular goods collections agreed with: • Johnston Paints • RING automotive • Food & Environment Research Agency • Yorkshire Bank • 9 churches in Leeds

  13. Looking ahead… • Begin trading • Secure more contracts

  14. Looking further ahead… • Expand staffing resources to allow growth • Develop and nurture more contracts • Become an ebay ‘broker’ for organisations and individuals • Provide more unemployed adults with training opportunities as a route to employment • Sustain St Vincent’s charitable work through social enterprise activities.

More Related