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UR Potential Annual Report 2011 – 2012

UR Potential Annual Report

1st

October 2011 - 30th

September 2012

UR POTENTIAL Community Interest Company is now in its 2nd year of trading. This report provides an overview of the company’s activities and projects for period October 2011 – September 2012.


UR POTENTIAL Community Interest Company Structure

Steering Group

Deborah Terras Linda Markey Director, Lead practitioner for Community Education Director, Lead practitioner for Workforce Development & Fylde Coast Be Involved Coordinator

Peer Mentor Scheme Fieldworkers Vicky McMahon

Office Admin Team Ben Mathew - Apprentice Nic Burrows - Volunteer

Blackpool Voluntary Youth Forum Jake Adams

Youth Led Groups LGBT Girls Group BVYF Artified Art Group Mystery Shoppers Fundraising group

Fylde Coast Be Involved Project Nina Beavers - Fleetwood Youth Action Team April Pollitt - Blackpool Youth Action Team Vicky Leah - Fylde Youth Action Team

Office Manager Emma Carr

VOLUNTEERS

Targeted Youth Support & Sessional Youth Workers Wendy Pearce Anna Elgee Danielle Vicky McMahon Dave Harrison Charlotte Kathoelber Andrew Bailey Joe Phi

Fylde Children’s Trust Coordinator Judith Davitt

Community Trainers Judith Davitt Lynne Brayne Anne Scholefield April Poliitt Nina Beavers


UR Potential What do we do UR Potential is a Community Interest Company which was launched in 2010 with a key aim to develop the capacity of local communities with

particular emphasis on children, young people and families to improve outcomes for children, young people and families, through volunteering

and development opportunities.

1. Research and Consultancy Services

Provide research and consultancy service for communities, statutory services and the voluntary sector. We conduct community research and

workforce change management across the sector. We coordinate and organise community events inc marketing and publicity across the Region

for both statutory and voluntary organisations.

2. Youth Volunteering

Fylde Coast Be Involved is a youth volunteering project which targets 14 to 25 year old young people who are living on Fylde, Wyre and

Blackpool. (The Fylde Coast). The project enables young people to prepare to take up volunteering opportunities or makes volunteering more

accessible to young people, offering support where required based on individual need of the volunteer. FCBI provides supported volunteering

opportunities to those who may require additional support. We provide training for young people including, Moving into Volunteering accredited

course, ASDAN Community Volunteering Qualification, employability, health and safety, food hygiene, customer service etc, as well as support

to organisations who host young people. We have 3 Youth Action Teams(YAT) who each cover the 3 areas on the Fylde Coast. The YATS

support the youth worker to deliver Volunteer training and training in schools, colleges, peer mentoring accredited courses and basic youth

work/ accredited youth work courses. We support the Blackpool Volunteer Youth Forum and 5 youth led groups which provide a stepping stone

to building young people’s confidence and support them into volunteering: LGBT, Peer mentoring, Art, Girls Group and Mystery Shoppers.


3. Direct Youth Service delivery

Bespoke packages including approaches that use peer mentors, motivational interviewing for drug and alcohol intervention, befriending groups

& accredited targeted training. We provide innovative methods to engage with young people within local communities to develop their capacity

and to enable them to become active citizens in their environment. We particularly work with young people aged 13 to 25 who are NEET, at risk

of being NEET, require brief intervention support and/or who have additional needs. We are currently commissioned by Lancashire Youth

Services to deliver NEET projects for the 2012 - 2014.

4. Training Services

We deliver accredited and non accredited courses for people, projects and companies within local communities and workplace settings. We

deliver a variety of courses ranging from ranging from confidence building for women only to employability, peer mentoring to Youthwork,

safeguarding to health and safety, volunteering qualifications to media and functional skills. Alongside bespoke courses specifically tailored to

meet individuals needs. We specialise in training for organic home grown youth and community workers. We use fully qualified tutor and youth

and community workers to deliver the training and projects to ensure all our community receive a excellent service


October 2011 – September 2012

Funding and projects Funding for our projects and training came from a number of diverse sources:

Commissioned services Lancashire County Council Young People’s Services

Commissioned 2 projects for NEET young people in Wyre and Fylde. In November 2011 we delivered 2 media project in partnership with DMC Media. The projects worked with diverse and hard to reach young people using media as tool to engage with and work alongside some very gifted, unique and inspiring young people. Each project designed, filmed, directed and edited their own DVD on an issue which had an impact on their community. The completed films were premiered together at The Odeon cinema with an audience of friends, family, youth workers and commissioners. The DVDs are today used in educational workshops. Some of the young people, involved in the DVD projects are now active members of Youth Action Teams and youth work training. We met the outcome for this commission and successfully gained further commissioned work for 2012-2014 for Wyre and Fylde. In August 2012 we commenced a further project engaging young people who were at risk of being NEET or who were NEET in Fylde. Working alongside FCWA. We also commence a part time project in Wyre under Fylde Coast Be Involved supporting young people into Volunteering.

Young People with Cllr Mark Perks, Lancashire County Council


Mentor and Addaction Street Talk Commissioned to train and induct 20 volunteers across Wyre and Fylde to engage with over 100 young people in delivering brief intervention to young people using the latest App and mobile technology. We exceeded pour targets and provide motivational interviewing and brief intervention to over 150 young people. Raising the profile of Young Addaction and increasing the capacity of volunteers as well as supporting young people in Wyre and Fylde.

Lancashire Drug and Alcohol Team (LDAAT) Commissioned through Wyre and Lancashire Children’s Trusts to deliver alcohol related youth projects to support the outcomes of both Trust’s action plans. We adapted the successful model of media as a too, and again working in partnership with DMC Media delivered 2 distinctly different projects to young people in Fylde and Wyre. The projects identified the impact alcohol has on a) the young person if parents are drinking and the negative stereotypes given to young people while b) the impact drinking has on you as a young person and the possible consequences. Both very powerful stories told by the groups with different mediums. Premiers were held in St Annes Island Cinema and Wyre Marine Hall. The audience consisted of family, friends, schools, Children Trust members, police and Fire service. Fylde Alcohol Strategy groups asked the Fylde group to sit as members on the group and be advisors.

Blackpool Adult Education and Lancashire Adult Education 2011 saw the beginning of our successful partnership with Blackpool and Lancashire Adult Educations. Our women only courses have grown in strength and developed from employability course, angel card readings to image consultant to confidence and action planning. Thanks to Judith Davitt for her ideas, commitment and patience with us while course were amended, evaluated and developed to produce packages to suit. We developed very strong links with Blackpool Women’s Centre and continue to deliver many women only courses from their bases in both Wyre and Blackpool. The Women only employability course provided grounding for our courses this year and successfully all women from the course are either in employment or accessing volunteering. We commenced the basic youthwork course in Fylde and Wyre which was very popular and supported the capacity of volunteers and the VCFS sector. We continued to deliver Step up to Volunteering across Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. Successfully gained further commissioned work for 2012-2013 in Blackpool and Lancashire.

Blackpool Council Youthwork training The first cohort of Youthwork trainees Level 2 ABC graduated. 12 successfully gained their Youth Support Level 2 with 1 gaining a Level 3 Diploma. All the trainees have employment or sustainable volunteer positions within youthwork. 3 have successfully gained places at University of Cumbria on the Youth & Community Degree. Successfully gained commission form Blackpool Young People’s council and Blackpool Council to deliver youth leadership youthwork training commencing Nov 2012 – June 2013.


Fylde Children’s Trust To coordinate, design and produce the Summer Activities for Fylde families, children and young people for Summer 2012. Working alongside our Artified group a summer activities credit card was designed for access to websites with up-to-date activities for families to access. Local MA student conducted a mapping exercise of the Town and linked this with Lancashire Young people’s Service Go4it. Duncan Hodgson coordinated the inputting and co design of the information leaflet. Park View 4U Lytham worked

The Foyer Blackpool Innovative delivery of alternative training based on the expressed needs of young people we delivered a 6 week nail art session to residents of the Foyer to support them in accessing further training and pathways to college. It was a very successful delivery working in partnership with Kim Smith Beauty therapy technician and qualified tutor. In February 2013 delivering citizenship and leadership skills to The Foyer residents

One to one session with resident of The Foyer

NHS Blackpool Commissioned to recruit, train and deliver a mystery project for 14 to 25 year olds. To mystery shop 5 GP surgeries in Blackpool and present the report to the commissioners. We successfully trained 12 Mystery Shopper who will visit 5 GPS surgeries from Oct to January To coordinate, organise, design and market new publicity material for NHS Tier 2 Sexual Health Services in Blackpool.. The launch is set for Jan 2013.

Lancashire County Council

Provide support of a coordinator to Fylde Children’s Trust and develop the action plan and coordination of partnership and Board meetings.


Direct delivery and income generated PTTLS We successfully delivered our first Preparing to teach in the Lifelong Sector utilizing the UK Online grant scheme to support community projects to access the funding alongside private funding. 8 learners achieved PTLLS status. Many thanks to Lynne Brayne for her continued delivery of this course and professional approach in all her work. Second cohort already commenced due to complete March 2013 and a waiting lst for cohort three!. Bespoke training courses/Consultancy Income generated to deliver training to public and private organisations in specialist subject i.e. Change Management with Lancashire Women’s Aid, health and safety with Blackpool Advocacy staff team. Due to commence training with Groundwork youth groups and The Foyer residents. Blackpool Council and other organisations both private and VCFS Provide accreditation verification and awards for young people across Region

Grant aided Fylde Coast Be Involved Fylde Coast Be Involved continued to be funded for Blackpool up to April 2012 by Blackpool Council, unfortunately no further funding was allocated and it was with regret we saw Wendy Pearce and Jan Atkinhead leave the project. We developed a model of delivery based on graduate and volunteer support and with some funding from Wyre and Community Foundation Merseyside we were able to continue the project across the 3 areas. On the 27th July 2012 we received amazing news that after 12 months of work we were awarded 5 year Big Lottery Reaching Communities funding for FCBI £199,333.00 for 3 project workers for Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. We appointed 3 workers and the work is continuing with some excellent results!( See attached Social Impact report for snapshot May 2011 – June 2012). The Peer mentoring supported FCBI and we saw our first Mentee and mentor relationship commence with support from Vicky McMahon and Lewis Ames our graduate on placement.


UK Online Outreach Project Successfully deliver an outreach project form Majestic sandwich Bar providing online training and a cuppa to community members. Supported by Vicky McMahon, Emma Carr, Lewis Ames and April Pollitt.

UK ONLINE Event at Majestic Sandwich Bar

ESF To deliver community based training including FA Coaching and Career development skills to learners across Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde. Due to commence Oct 2012 – July 2013


Partnerships and collaborative working We continue to be an active member of North West Regional Youthwork Unit. We delivered a workshop in 2012 to HE/FE directors in Merseyside, highlighting the importance of commissioning local providers to deliver community based training. We continue to work very closely with Cumbria University and have graduates on placement within our projects. We attended a National Council for Voluntary Youthwork Services (NCVYS) event in Oxford to support the development of youth work qualifications. We became members of Greater Together, Deborah is now a Director on the Board. Linda stood down as Chair of Cool Pool to concentrate on the development of FCBI. Deborah was nominated as Chair of Fylde Children’s Trust and is working alongside both statutory and VCFS partners to develop the Fylde CT. We are a members of:

CVS Wyre and Fylde Children and young people’s Forum,

One Blackpool

SELNET

GREATER TOGETHER

Cool Pool

Young Lancashire

NAVAJO network

Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde Volunteer Coordinators We continue to have very strong partnerships with:

Claremont First Step Centre

All BCVYS Members

Park View 4U

Cumbria University

Fylde Homestart

Lancashire YPS

BYPC

Tommy’s Youth Club

Richmond Fellowship

The Foyer

Groundworks

DMC Media

BIFFY

FCWA… to name but a few


Celebrations, achievements and success International Women’s Day In March 2012 we coordinated alongside Weeton Community workers an International Women’s Day with women from Fiji and Weeton Barracks as well as our Team including Olivia Whelan on work experience from St Bedes. We celebrated women across the worked The event was a great success with a host of activities for all the family including workshops, Fijian food, interactive Wii, foot massages and arts and crafts using batiking.

Women at Weeton Barracks March 2012


Britain in a day Our Drama Queens agreed to be filmed for BBC Britain in a day organised by CVS and supported by Vicky McMahon using social media to capture British life in a day, this was aired on BBC.

Artified Group The group entered into the first Blackpool Scarecrow competition supported by April Pollitt. They also worked alongside older members of Claremont Community to decorate and build the 25ft Giant Queen, a collaboration between Claremont, Lancashire Mind and UR Potential.

Art group with Keith Lemon, scarecrow!!

The Queen before Make up!!


Drama Group We bid a fond farewell to the Drama group members as they continued their journey into adulthood. The Drama queens delivered their final performance but went out with a bang as they won Blackpool Youth Awards 2012 Youth Culture Award!! Some members have gone to University, others have gained either employment or continue to volunteer in meaningful and sustainable volunteering positions. Special thanks to Jade Walsmley for her support.

Drama Queens final production at The Boys and Girls Club

Drama Queen winning their Youth Culture Award


Graduate Scheme We are pleased to be able to offer post graduate a bursary for Youth and Community Degree. April Pollitt is our first graduate on the scheme and commenced her studies at Cumbria University in Sept 2012. URPotential Celebration Event Our Blackpool Youth Action Team successfully coordinated, organised, fundraised and managed our celebration event in July. The event saw over 100 young people gain their volunteer certificates and adult learners gain their certificates in various accredited course. Cllrs from Blackpool and Lancashire attended alongside community members, commissioners and youth groups. Wyre YAT are currently organizing the 2013 celebration, it’s a tough act to follow but we’re sure they are up for the challenge.

URPotential Celebration event 2012


Awards and nominations We/our volunteers/team have been nominated for:

Drama Queens Philip Lawrence Awards for knife crime production

Wyre and Fylde Volunteers for the Lancashire Young People’s Awards for Volunteering

SELNET

Social Enterprise North West Small business of the Year, shortlisted ceremony Feb 2013

Spirit of Lancashire Awards shortlisted ceremony in February 2013

Linda Markey was nominated for National V Charity Awards for Contribution to Volunteering and was shortlisted as Regional Winner for 2012/2013.

Fylde Together and Wyre Forward Volunteer Awards

Lancashire young citizens of 2012 We have been awarded;

NAVAJO Quality mark for LGBT services

Hear By Rights Silver Award

Mentoring and Befriending Approved Standard – currently going through process

PQASSO – currently performing self assessment with support from Young Lancashire

The Future In an uncertain time of funding and cuts in services we will continue to work with who we know and what we know. To strive to deliver first class training, volunteering opportunities, infrastructure support and consultation for community members. We will continue to support the development of our team and those we work with. We will continue to source appropriate funding to support current projects and infrastructure of the organisation. Our thanks to our Steering Group members, community members, funders, young people, friends and family, who have provided us with their time, support, hard work, ideas, and above all their honesty and patience.

Thank you to our team, both staff, volunteers, steering group and students, of which none of this would have been possible without their dedication and passion for the roles they take on every day!!

Thank you to everyone and we look forward to working with you all in 2013

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