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Transforming Remploy through Social Enterprises

Learn about Remploy's mission to transform the lives of disabled and severely disadvantaged people through work. Discover their approach, progress to date, and opportunities for questions.

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Transforming Remploy through Social Enterprises

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  1. Transforming Remploy through Social EnterprisesBASE Conference 8th September 2010

  2. Outline About Remploy The Current Context Our Approach Progress to date Our Opportunities Opportunity for questions

  3. Remploy • Mission: To transform the lives of disabled • and severely disadvantaged • people through work. • Non departmental public body • Funded through block grant to deliver Workstep • Two approaches: • Employment Services • Enterprise Businesses

  4. Context for Change Rationalised from 83 to 54 sites in 2008 More than half the sites have little or no work Cost per person supported in the sites is rising, not falling Little or no progression from Remploy to Open Employment Impact of public sector cuts on sales

  5. Approach We researched the differences between Remploy and Social Firms model We identified internal and external champions We identified 5 Remploy sites to test the model:Aberdeen, Worksop, Bridgend, Haringey, Poole We employed dedicated, entrepreneurial management We are developing individual site propositionsaccording to local skills and markets We are exploring a number of different business models

  6. Governance and Structures Nationally Driven Centrally loaded Centrally controlled Strong Governance Part of Remploy structure and systems Conformance culture Locally Driven Flexible,can do, customer focussed culture Services and systems appropriate to business and size and legal compliance Reduced overhead costs High local involvement Increasingly independent from Remploy systems/processes Social Enterprise 1 Remploy Site Social Enterprise 2 Social Enterprise 3

  7. Progress to Date New Business and Governance model developed and is currently being implemented (within Remploy constraints) New site managers recruited Funding level remains flat at09/10 budget for 10/11 A Number of newenterprise opportunities identified and implemented across the 5 sites We have identified the first 4 individual SE businesses achieving minimum 50% commercial revenue, with a minimum of 25% disabled people

  8. Progress to date First 4 businesses running to Social Firms model:

  9. Next Steps As businesses become viable we can talk to employees about business ownership We could offer this approach to more Remploy sites We can share our lessons learned with other sheltered workshops We can use the expertise and experience gained to support disabled and disadvantaged people set up their own businesses across the UK without having to use a Remploy site and outside of Remploy ownership

  10. Questions ?

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