Healthier Lives,

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• Healthier Lives,
• Wealthier Communities
• Edinburgh Carlton Hotel
• Wednesday, 30th September 2009

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What is Social Enterprise

• Business Social / Environmental Purpose
• Asset Lock
• (Revenue Capital)

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Senscot Services

• Weekly e-bulletin (over 4,000)
• Website (4,000 hits on average per week)
• Database ( 6,000 records)
• New Services (Scotland UnLTD, DTAS, Social
  Enterprise Academy, First Port, Local People
  Leading)
• Local Social Enterprise Networks (16)

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Social Enterprise Networks

• Regional Aberdeen City Edinburgh
• Argyll Bute Glasgow
• Clackmannanshire Tayside
• East Dunbartonshire West Lothian
• East Lothian
• Fife
• Midlothian
• Moray
• Thematic Coalfields
• Cultural
• Health
• Sports

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Benefits of Social Enterprise

• Enterprising, independent and responsive
• Close to their communities
• Good at accessing hard to reach groups
• Passionate about achieving change for the better
• Re-invest surpluses (profit!) for community
  benefit

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Barriers to Social Enterprise

• Communication gap between health professionals
  and social entrepreneurs
• Lack of clarity around the Added Value
  delivered by the social enterprise approach
• Contracts dont take community benefit into
  account
• A need for more showcase examples of public
  bodies working with social enterprises

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Social Enterprise Health Activity

• Thematic Social Enterprise Network
• Thematic Round Table meetings leading up to
  national conference
• Three national conferences with a focus to
  overcoming barriers identified by SEs

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Focus for overcoming barriers

• Health Impact Translation Toolkit
• Developing an economic dimension of evidence of
  impact
• Social Enterprise Health Case Studies

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Successes - Badaguish

• Outdoor centre near Aviemore which provides
  respite, care and activity holidays for children
  and adults with special needs from all over the
  UK.
• Turnover of 600,000
• 70 self-funding
• 80 repeat business
• Supported employment for 18 young people

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Successes - The Breadmaker

• An artisan bakery and coffee house in Aberdeen,
  which provides meaningful work and training for
  adults with learning disability.
• 21 apprentices with a learning disability,
  supported by 8 staff
• 480,000 turnover in 2007
• 65 self-funded
• aim to be 100 self-sufficient by 2010

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Successes - Crisis

• Crisis counselling service in Renfrewshire
  committed to significantly reducing the barriers
  and exclusion in mental health care by providing
  a range of flexible, easily accessible and
  affordable choices in professional therapeutic
  services.
• 1,300 clients 2007
• 700 under 16 referrals
• 93 counsellors (23 training places)
• 167,000 turnover
• 45 self-funded (aiming for 80)

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Vital Stats for Case Studies

• 10 organisations
• Staff FT-104 / PT- 26 / Sessional - 52
• Volunteers 639
• Turnover 11,382,811
• Assets 3,786,657
• Trade Vs grants 75

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Contact details

• Colin Campbell
• Senscot Development Manager
• 54 Manor Place
• Edinburgh
• EH3 7EH
• T 0131 220 4104
• E colin_at_senscot.net
• W www.senscot.net

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Lanarkshire Community Food and Health
Partnership

• Ian Shankland
• 0141 771 6095

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How Fruits and Roots fits into our existing
projects.

• LCFHP is a community based charity that aims to
  overcome barriers to healthy eating by working in
  disadvantaged communities across North and South
  Lanarkshire
• LCFHP was established approx. 20 years ago has 8
  full time, 1 part time staff, a warehouse in
  Bargeddie and 5 Delivery vehicles
• Turnover in the current year will be approx
  520,000
• LCFHP runs 2 funded projects.
• Community Food Co-op - network of 12 initiatives
• High Five for Fruit - supporting health promotion
  in 129 nurseries via fruit deliveries 22,000
  pieces per week and taster sessions 144 last year
• and 1 Social Enterprise Fruits and Roots..

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About Fruits and Roots

• Operating in Monklands Hospital since Sept 2006
  and Hairmyres and Wishaw General since Oct 2007
• Fruits and Roots operate a mobile food co-op four
  days a week in Monklands, 2 days in Wishaw and
  once in Hairmyres between 9.15am and 3.00pm
• Extended into the Primary Care network in 2008,
  now includes another 11 fruit stalls in
  Coatbridge, Bellshill and Airdrie localities and
  supplies fruit to 16 NHS Lanarkshire locations
  across Clydesdale, Hamilton and East Kilbride
• The food co-ops are located at the main entrances
• The co-ops sell a wide range of fruit and
  vegetables at cost price
• ( 15), to cover LCFHP staff costs etc.
• Promoted in local newspapers, internal
  newspapers, posters and staff briefings

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Developing Social Enterprise

• When the organisation looked at developing a
  string of S.E. activity we considered.
• Could we simply charge more for current service
• Business activity which we knew
• Activity which complimented our core goals
• Understanding of existing capacity and future
  requirements of funded projects versus capacity
  and management need of S.E. work

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Identification of Benefit

• Unusual position for us as no funders asking for
  evaluation
• Looked at other similar projects
• Wanted to ensure evaluation was not just data
  collection but helped to inform future
  improvements
• Used links with Glasgow University

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Identification of Benefit and Data Collection

• Undertaken in partnership with Glasgow University
  Human Nutrition Dept.
• Aims of the Evaluation
• To measure fruit and vegetable consumption across
  3 hospitals
• To determine customers perception of produce
  quality and affordability and acceptability
• To appraise knowledge and understanding of
  government guidelines and recommendations re
  fruit and vegetable intake