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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)
• Adult education, job support, ESOL (500 benef’s. Costs £40k)
• Supported volunteering programme (100 benef’s. Costs £40k)
Income 2011/12 (approx £300k)
grants
shop/café
fundraising
social housing
donations
55%
10%
12%
15%
8%
Enterprise attempts to date…
Community Cafe
Second hand shop High volunteer costs, staffing costs. As above, more of a service than a business due to client group
Struggles to break even. More of a service than a business due to target audience
Charging for counselling Compromised ethos of St Vincent’s
Commissioning debt services
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.
Developing Yorkshire Community Co-operative (Y-CoCo)
Great potential but lack of track record making it difficult to secure first contract
Hour LeedsGood launch last month, positive media coverage and in the first 2 weeks generated over £2k. Corporate launch planned with Ed Balls fronting.
Becoming enterprising
Using and building upon our existing retail
experience,volunteer workforce, and
access to donated goods…
Launching an trading operation
Becoming enterprising
Building on a service we currently run
internally only at St Vincent’s:
Develop a Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) service
The last 3 months….
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The last 3 months….
• 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
Securing staff and contracts:
Looking ahead…
• Begin trading• Secure more contracts
grants
shop/café
fundraising
social housing
donations
trading
grants
shop/café
fundraising
social housing
donations
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.