Transforming community

servicesDave Dawes

Entreprenurses CICwww.entreprenurses.net/

righttorequest

Characteristics•Values not structures

•Trading for social good

•Profit-making organisations

Examples

•Sandwell Community Caring Trust

•Kath Locke Centre

•Central Surrey Health

•Salford Health Matters

•CHAP

You can’t force someone to be an

entrepreneur

Right to Request

What is it?•Route for PCT staff to set up

a social enterprise

•NHS Indemnity through CNST

•Membership of NHS Pension Scheme

•3 year contract

Pensions•Existing staff can stay in NHS Pension

Scheme

•As long as they work on NHS contracts

•Excludes injury benefit

•Excludes premature retirement

•Excludes redundancy

Commercial insurance

The private The private sector recruits sector recruits without NHS without NHS

pensionspensions

To remain in the Pension Scheme, you

must be:•Company limited by Guarantee

•CIC limited by Guarantee

•CIC limited by Shares

•Industrial Provident Society (Co-op)

•Industrial Provident Society (BenCom)

You can make any structure work

Social enterprise survival rates

The importance of cashflow

Working capital

•Overdrafts (4 - 6 weeks)

•Managing supply chain

•Unexpected expenditure

Personal Personal guaranteesguarantees

Prepare for competition

DiversificationNew services to existing customers

ExpansionExisting services to new customers

InnovationNew services to new customers

NHS NHS MonopsonyMonopsony

New income New income streamsstreams

Stability

Contract models

Block contracts

Individual budgets

Sandwell Community

37 per year

0.3 per year

£652 per week

£328 per week

Absence Costs

Copy theCopy the NHS NHS

Staff Morale

Would they Would they vote for vote for

you?you?

The last ever reorganisation?

Limbix vs Cortex

Dave DawesEntreprenurses CICwww.entreprenurses.net

dave@entreprenurses.net07738 567573

www.entreprenurses.net/righttorequest