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Engagement through training and social enterprise

Engagement through training and social enterprise. Paul Anderson. Head of London. Homelesslink Kevin Finnon. South East Regional Manager, Homelesslink. No One Left Out – Communities ending rough sleeping.

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Engagement through training and social enterprise

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  1. Engagement throughtraining and social enterprise Paul Anderson. Head of London. Homelesslink Kevin Finnon. South East Regional Manager, Homelesslink

  2. No One Left Out – Communities ending rough sleeping • The 2008 Rough Sleeping Strategy, sets out its commitment to social enterprise as a means of tackling worklessness

  3. Social enterprises are businesses with primarily social objectives where profit is reinvested, rather than them being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders or owners. In social enterprises their social purpose is central to what they do.

  4. Why Social Enterprise? • Benefits to service users: • Wide-ranging learning and training opportunities, informal and formal. • Catering – research, legal issues, marketing, budgeting, design, cooking, planning and organisation, IT etc. • Working with others, anger management, handling conflict, presentation and appearance etc. • Catering – currently “fashionable”, attractive • Meaningful route from training, through work experience, into employment or further training • Working in collaboration with others on a joint project

  5. Some organisations use social enterprise as a way of providing training and employment opportunities for homeless and other socially excluded people. These increase first time employment opportunities for those who may be further away from the labour market.

  6. First BaseCatering Training Project • Big Lottery funded • Trainees trained on all aspects of catering – budgeting, menu planning, food preparation, serving etc • Food Hygiene Certificate, Health & Safety, Manual Handling

  7. Entered CLG Spark Challenge 2008. First Base external catering social enterprise – Winner of Spark Challenge 2008 The grant has enabled us to employ a worker specifically to take “Dine!” forward. She is expanding work with trainees of the Catering Training Project and building the external catering business. Currently catering to both small and large events – weddings, launch events, service user events, supporting people forums, training events etc. Supported by Local Authority

  8. Steak and Dark Star ale casserole; Chicken stuffed with stilton, walnuts and garlic; Wild mushroom timbale spiced with star anises in a Madeira sauce; followed by Fresh fruit Sabayon with Chocolate and Vanilla biscuits.

  9. Places of Change • A central government agenda based on learning from the sector • Transform the way that services are delivered to homeless people • Enable people to move away from homelessness for good

  10. Jamie's Computers. Society of St James. Southampton • There core aim is to provide learning and training to there client group.

  11. Through these client services, Jamie’s Computer Club has provided opportunities to over 500 learners. They have also hosted approximately 20 paid work placement schemes, with learners moving on either to employment, or volunteering opportunities elsewhere. Two work placements are now on permanent employment contracts with Jamie’s itself.

  12. Some organisations use social enterprise to raise funds for other areas of their work. These social enterprises are sometimes freestanding businesses or offshoots of homelessness agencies

  13. Jamie’s computers has developed the commercial aspect of the project, not only to provide work based training, but also in a bid to become self-funding, and eventually divert income back to the main charity – The Society of St James.

  14. With some social enterprises, the focus is on the service that the business delivers to a community

  15. Why Social Enterprise? Benefits to the Community: Social Returns: Increased employment Decreased rough sleeping – training and employment increasing access to accommodation Reduced social exclusion Reduced dependency on benefits Reduced substance addiction Reduced anti-social behaviour Reduced crime

  16. www.homelesslink.org.uk Homeless LinkGateway HouseMilverton StreetLondon SE11 4AP 020 7840 9930 Paul Anderson. Head of London. Paul.anderson@homelesslink.org.uk 02078404417/ 07738580685 Kevin Finnon. South East Regional Manager, Kevin.finnon@homelesslink.org.uk 07810867182 http://www.jamiescomputerclub.org.uk/home/home.php http://www.bht.org.uk/

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