2013 – a brilliant year!
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2013 – A Brilliant Year!. In 2012/13 we traded through a drop of over 55% of turnover and emerged stronger, leaner and operating profitably. Very few businesses would have the resilience to achieve that. Secured contracts totalling over £2.2million revenue and c£7million of capital. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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2013 – A Brilliant Year!
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In 2012/13 we traded through a drop of over 55% of turnover and emerged
stronger, leaner and operating profitably
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Very few businesses would have the resilience to achieve that
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Secured contracts totalling over £2.2million revenue and c£7million of capital
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Exceptional Work Programme job sustainability of c78% - up there with the best in UK among Avanta sub-contractors
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Established new Welfare Assistance services for Stockton, County Durham and
Northumberland to successfully meet challenging targets and criteria
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Secured extension to New Enterprise Allowance contract to deliver up to
£2million of loans to c1500 new businesses
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RBS SE100 ‘Impact Champion’ and one of only 10 social enterprises in the UK to score
10/10 for impact measurement
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Highly commended in the ‘Enterprise Agency of the Year’ category at the
National Enterprise Network awards 2013
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Leading provider of non-statutory youth services in Stockton – continuing brilliant
work with VIBE; All Stars; Muslim lads and Youthy… and an MB award!
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On site with first of our 75 Empty Homes properties in Evenwood, County Durham
and in Darlington
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Delivered first few large business loans of up to £50k from our Regional Growth Fund
pot of £750k capital
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Over 1,500 MyBnk attendees and agreement with MyBnk to expand our staffing to grow the initiative further
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Graeme Oram, won ‘Social Entrepreneur of the Year’ for the North of England in the
prestigious Ernst & Young ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ 2013
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We made over 13,000 personal loans to financially excluded people unable to
access affordable credit
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Shortlisted in ‘Best Communication’ category at 2013 NEN Awards
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Over £1.5million of ‘Helping Hand’ loans across all 12 NE local authorities
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Strong performance on our ‘Get On In Life (GOIL)’ project rewarded with new sub-contract to support NEET young people
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Extended our role in a broad range of energy saving/fuel poverty initiatives –
Warm Homes Healthy People; Big Community Switch; Big Energy Saving
Network
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Secured funding from Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation to create a
soft-play area at The Youthy
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Employed over 30 new staff, a massive challenge which HR have delivered on,
creating our strongest and most talented staff team ever
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Successfully bid for £42k of investment funding to lead the growth to scale and impact of our colleagues at Tees Credit
Union
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Expanded our ‘FamilyWise’ delivery into Redcar & Cleveland and Middlesbrough,
gaining three staff in the process
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Bought our first house for refurbishment – 3 Chapel Street, Evenwood …… and nearly
found ourselves on ‘Homes Under The Hammer’!
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Shortlisted for CDFA ‘Citi Microentrepreneurship’ Impact Award
2014
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CDFA ‘Inside Community Finance 2012’ shows us delivering nearly 40% of loans
made in UK by their members
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Our external auditors highlighted the exceptional performance of our finance
team in managing our increasingly complex finances and also the work of our credit control and admin team within Financial
Inclusion
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Successful joint bid to Synergy securing funding for ‘Healthways’, a consortium
approach to improving health outcomes of hard to reach and vulnerable groups in
Stockton
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DWP told us that 1 in 4 of NEA loans made nationally is from Five Lamps
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Our buildings are looking better than ever thanks to our splendid caretaking and front of house teams and more people than ever
are coming through the doors at South Thornaby
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Exceptional performance on the Start-Up Loan Company contract (nearly 200 loans
totalling close to £1m) has opened up further growth into North Yorkshire in 2014
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Our contract to deliver ‘CapacityBuilders’ financial inclusion support to pre-release
prisoners in HMP Kirklevington was extended and there is strong interest from
other prisons
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Strengthened relationship with ‘Smarterbuys’ to provide white goods and
other household items for Welfare Assistance and Financial Inclusion services
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Reaccredited as Investors in People Gold – a tremendous achievement for any
organisation
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Soon to be published third set of social accounts – the best yet!
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Established our trading company ‘Conduit’, enabling surpluses to be gift-aided to the
Charity
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Completed the restructuring of our Senior Management Team with the recruitment of
Director of Financial Inclusion & Housing and new structures will be fully
implemented from 1 January 2014
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Introduced our ‘Culture Champions’ initiative with representation from all parts
of our business
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Revised our Charitable Objects, with the approval of the Charity Commission, to allow us to work throughout England
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Now ‘Creating Possibilities: Improving Lives’ for over 30,000 people per annum
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NOW LOOKING AHEAD…
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We want growth in all areas of our business
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EU Structural Fund proposals totalling £17.4million have been submitted to grow Financial Inclusion; Enterprise – Access to
Finance and Enterprise – Managed Workspace in the period 2014-2020.
Amazingly, we are bringing over £14.4million to the table
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Expanding our Empty Homes activity by purchasing and repairing a further 50
properties per annum and establishing a social enterprise letting and property
management agency
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Introducing a fully-functioning on-line application portal for personal loans early
in 2014 with an integrated automated decision-making system and credit
assessment
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Actively seeking further investment from banks and social investors
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Giving detailed consideration to the acquisition of other businesses to enable growth and widen our geographic reach
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Working with partners to establish the ‘North East Social Investment Fund’ which
matches Big Society Capital funding to other investment to create a possible £20million fund for social enterprises
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Evaluating the benefits of delivering savings and other financial support and securing the relevant Financial Conduct
Authority accreditation
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Working with ‘Synergy’ the local VCS Consortium to take a prominent role in local Carers and Young Carers tenders
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Building our asset base by securing full legal title to Eldon Street and South
Thornaby
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Developing a detailed plan for one single contact centre that spans all of our services
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Exploring new markets like Homecare; Community Transport; Children’s Centres
and more
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Actively pursuing further growth in Welfare Assistance and related fields as wider
Welfare Reforms are introduced
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Seeking to take advantage of the Social Value Act, to work with local authorities in the co-production of new models of public
service delivery
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Building up our trading company ‘Conduit’ to create more jobs and considering audacious projects like an ‘Academy’
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Growing our Great North Loan Fund concept to over £20million in funds under
management