North West Regional Network Meeting

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North West Regional Network Meeting
North Birkenhead Development Trust 21st May 2009
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Todays Programme

• Policy and Funding Update Jeff Scales (DTA)
• Workshop - Knowing Your Worth A Workshop on
  Valuing Your Activities and Achieving Full Cost
  Recovery Chris Hart (Pulse Regeneration Ltd)
• Staff Exchange Programme What do you think of
  the idea? Chris ODonnell (DTA)
• Members Networking
• LUNCH
• Introduction to the DTA in the Northwest - Jeff
  Scales
• A RANGE OF KEY SPEAKERS ON THE THEME OF
  Collaboration and Consortia
• Collaboration Benefits Michelle Carrahar
  (bassac)
• Catalysing Consortia Project - An introduction to
  a new Capacity Builders funded Social Enterprise
  North West (SENW) Project Liz Tapner (SELNET)
• CASE STUDY Running markets through consortia
  working Jackie McQueen (DTA)
• GROUP DISCUSSION Collaboration and Consortia -
  What are the opportunities? What are the
  challenges?
• Legal Issues in Consortia Working Crispin
  Pettifer (Hempsons Solicitors)
• North Birkenhead Development Trust our host
  organisation for the day will tell us about their
  journey and plans for the future (Anna Wallis)

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Policy and Funding update

• Jeff Scales
• Regional Development Manager - North West

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Community Builders Fund - 70m

• 59m from DCLG, 11m from OTS
• Investment fund supporting enterprising community
  organisations achieve sustainability
• Acquiring property assets and building
  enterprises
• Orgs must be
• - locally controlled by residents
• - neighbourhood focussed and empowering
• - providing a range of activities, services
  facilities
• - inclusive of all sections of their community
• Originally - 70 capital / 30 revenue (probably
  more 50/50)
• Balance between loan and grant needs to be struck
• Pre-investment support (up to 20,000)
  feasibility (up to 50,000) and 100k-2m
  investment (more likely be around 750k)
• Decision on fund manager in June 09 open for
  applications July 09
• Call for an asset acquisition fund of 100m to
  build on the Community Builders Fund (12th May
  Social Enterprise Summit)

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Targeted Support Fund (15m)

• Part of Real Help for Communities Volunteers,
  Charities and Social Enterprises (42.5m)
• Grants programme for small third sector
  organisations (turnover between 30k and 250k)
• CLGs / charities
• in areas most at risk of increasing levels of
  deprivation as a result of the recession
• Grants between 10 and 40k
• - information, advice and guidance
• - Employment and employability
• - Health and well-being
• Need to demonstrate increased demand for services
  due to recession
• Not just core funding frontline delivery
• Allows for full cost recovery
• Has to be spent by March 2010
• Community Development Foundation (nationally and
  locally)
• www.cdf.org.uk

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Targeted Support Fund eligible areas

• Blackburn with Darwen 128,703
• Bolton 250,557
• Calderdale 235,013
• Manchester 435,894
• Oldham 190,989
• Rochdale 241,209
• Salford 227,730
• Tameside 229,143
• Wigan 361,433
• Blackpool 112,071
• Halton 167,727
• Knowsley 167,292
• St. Helens 186,858
• Liverpool 439,046
• Warrington 210,338

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Future Jobs Fund (1.4 billion)

• Announced in April budget
• Department of Work and Pensions
• Bidding round in May, delivery between Oct 09 and
  April 11
• Local Authorities and 3rd sector organisations
  will be able to bid
• Aims to provide work for 150,000 people on Job
  Seekers Allowance, young people (18-25)
  unemployed for 12mnths.
• Steve Wyler (DTA Director) has been appointed to
  a third sector task force on this
• Scheme favoured large organisations (prime
  contractors) so pressure is being exerted to
  provide opportunities for smaller community based
  organisations
• 13th May 2009 A minimum of 100 million will be
  available for delivery through social enterprises
  to create 15,000 new jobs
• 15th May 2009 DWP agreed to reduce the minimum
  number of jobs bidders need to provide from 100
  to 30
• http//www.dwp.gov.uk/campaigns/futurejobsfund/ind
  ex.asp

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Inspiring Communities Grant Programme (10m)

• DCLG DCSF Cabinet Office
• Raising aspirations of young people
• NW areas eligible Blackburn with Darwen,
  Blackpool, Bolton, Cumbria, Halton, Knowsley,
  Lancashire, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham,
  Blackpool, Bolton, Cumbria, Halton, Rochdale,
  Salford, Sefton, St. Helens, Tameside, Wigan,
  Wirral
• Seeking 15 neighbourhoods nationally
• Up to 450k
• 2009-2011
• Applications from neighbourhood partnerships
• http//www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/11985
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The Safer Homes Fund (6m)

• Home Office in partnership with the Community
  Alliance
• Grants between 10,000 - 100,000
• Community-led initiatives to improve home
  security and create wellbeing
• In 90 priority areas
• Handy peoples schemes community development
  (e.g. social activities to bring people
  together) peer to peer (e.g. befriending
  schemes) community enterprise (e.g. local home
  security business)
• Application deadline is 31st July 2009
• http//www.grantsadmin.co.uk/saferhomes/index.html
  

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Meanwhile uses of Empty Shop-front Properties
(3m)

• Small grants up to 1000 to community groups
• Creative use of vacant shops
• special planning application waivers, standard
  interim-use leases, and temporarily leasing shops
  to councils will allow empty shops to get
  makeovers for use as cultural, community or
  learning services.
• Were seeking to discover development trusts that
  are already undertaking such activities, where
  and with what success or barriers
• Please email r.hearn_at_dta.org.uk with any comments
  on this subject. We look forward to hearing from
  you!
• http//www.communities.gov.uk/publications/plannin
  gandbuilding/towncentres  

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The Cultivating Enterprise Programme
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The Cultivating Enterprise Programme

• Whats on offer?
• A specialist diagnostic assessment
• Support from regional case manager
• Access to our small grants
• Signposting to other sources of support and/or
  funding
• Access to RBS business mentors
• For more info - www.dta.org.uk/enterprise

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In brief

• Lobbying for a Community Reinvestment Act
• Ministerial working group, chaired by Liam Byrne,
  aims to deliver a level playing field for social
  enterprises/charities to compete for public
  service contracts
• Enhancing Communities (up to 50k for building
  improvements) SITA http//www.sitatrust.org.uk/app
  ly/community/locator
• Learning Launchpad, Young Foundation (300k)
  http//www.learninglaunchpad.org/apply.php   
• Modernisation Fund (16.5m),Capacitybuilders and
  Futurebuilders http//www.modernisationfund.org.uk
  /
• MyPlace 2009/10 http//www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/p
  rog_myplace.htm
• Social Enterprise Investment Fund (Big Issue
  Invest) Risk Capital of 50-100k
  http//www.biginvest.co.uk/cdfi.html
• Generations Together - 5.5 million
  (intergenerational volunteering activity)
  http//www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/third_sector/news/
  news_stories/090417_generations.aspx
• Asset Transfer Unit Launch http//www.atu.org.uk/
  
• New Social Return on Investment Guide
  http//www.sroi-uk.org/component/option,com_docman
  /task,cat_view/gid,29/Itemid,38/

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North West Regional Network Meeting
North Birkenhead Development Trust 21st May 2009
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Todays Programme

• Introduction to the DTA in the Northwest - Jeff
  Scales
• A RANGE OF KEY SPEAKERS ON THE THEME OF
  Collaboration and Consortia
• Collaboration Benefits Michelle Carrahar
  (bassac)
• Catalysing Consortia Project - An introduction to
  a new Capacity Builders funded Social Enterprise
  North West (SENW) Project Liz Tapner (SELNET)
• CASE STUDY Running markets through consortia
  working Jackie McQueen (DTA)
• GROUP DISCUSSION Collaboration and Consortia -
  What are the opportunities? What are the
  challenges?
• Legal Issues in Consortia Working Crispin
  Pettifer (Hempsons Solicitors)
• North Birkenhead Development Trust our host
  organisation for the day will tell us about their
  journey and plans for the future (Anna Wallis)

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Introduction to the DTA

• Jeff Scales
• Regional Development Manager - North West

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About Development Trusts

• Development Trusts are community owned and led
• They use trading for social purpose, and
  ownership of buildings and land, to bring about
  long-term social, economic and environmental
  benefits in their community
• They are independent, but work with the public
  sector, private businesses, and with other
  community groups
• They are community anchor organisations
• They create wealth in communities and keep it
  there

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What do they do?

• Property development
• Managed workspace
• Sports and leisure facilities
• Retail and market space
• Building restoration
• Environmental improvement
• Education and training
• Develop manage low-cost housing

• Information services
• Community development
• Social care provision
• Countryside management
• Tourism
• Heritage interpretation
• Business development
• Manage community buildings

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What do they do!

• Provide childcare, make benches, manage office
  space, teach ICT, support small businesses, cook
  healthy food, run cafés, recycle paper, support
  other community organisations, employ people with
  special needs, grow stuff, manage community
  centres, run cinemas, rent out houses, undertake
  youth work, provide home help schemes for older
  people, run community transport schemes, lobby
  Councils for improvements on behalf of local
  people, undertake consultancy work, run schools
  for excluded young people, manage parks and play
  areas, have festivals fun days Dickensian
  Christmas Fairs, run credit unions, support
  neighbourhood management and other local
  initiatives, refurbish derelict buildings, set up
  social enterprises, support people to find work,
  homework clubs, DJ Workshops, five a side
  football, manage Healthy Living Centres, support
  local artists, provide wedding and conference
  facilities, create web-sites, regenerate market
  town centres, teaching basic skills English and
  Math, lend money, employ local people, repairing
  and selling bicycles, running play schemes,
  sports days, manage sports facilities, provide a
  refuge for women, publish community newsletters,
  teach construction and catering skills, support
  community radio, run community arts projects,
  manage renewable energy schemes, build green
  homes, manage grant funding, managing local
  markets (market stalls), run community cohesion
  projects, manage street ranger schemes, install
  CCTV, manage shops, benefit advice and debt
  counselling, promote tourism, manage heritage
  sites, undertake social audits, run pubs and
  bars, building and managing a BMX track, run
  Archaeology schools, provide sets for film and
  television productions, manage allotments, run
  Tourist Information Centres, run Abattoirs,
  provide ferry services

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The DTA membership 2008 figures

• 444 full and emerging development trusts in the
  UK (40 in the NW)
• Working in communities that make up a quarter of
  the population
• Development trusts have combined income of 263m
• Of which 106m is earned income
• 489m of assets are in community ownership

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About the DTA

• The DTA Mission
• to empower people to achieve a successful
  development trust in every community
• DTA Objectives
• help people set up new development trusts
• help development trusts work effectively
• influence others to support our movement

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What the DTA does for its members

• Lobbies on your behalf (local, regional and
  national)
• - For policy that supports the sector
• - For resources that support the sector
• Links and signposting to resources
• Provides networking opportunities
• Knowledge and skills exchange (up to 750-1000)
• Discounted rates on conferences, seminars,
  training
• Direct staff support (1-1)
• Access to publications
• Monthly and Quarterly e-bulletins
• Preferential deals on insurance (Finance
  ReDirect)
• Access to advice on legal (Interchange) VAT
  (Delloitte)
• Subscription to New Start
• Member profiles added to DTA website
• Opportunities to earn income
• Range of products and services from partner
  organisations in the Community Alliance (BASSAC
  Community Matters)

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What we would like from you

• Share your experience and information with other
  members
• Welcome enquiries and visits from interested
  parties
• Attend the annual members conference
• Support your regional network and value the work
  of other members
• Provide information to the DTA about your
  organisation and your work
• Promote the development trust movement and its
  values
• Use the DTA logo on your website and other
  promotional material where appropriate
• Welcome visits and assessments from DTA regional
  staff

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GROUP DISCUSSION

• Collaboration Consortia
• What are the opportunities?
• What are the Challenges to overcome?

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Key Dates

• Communities in Control Developing Assets 2nd
  3rd June 2009, New Contemporary Urban Centre,
  Liverpool
• On 16th June 2009 Social Enterprise North West
  (SENW) will be holding the first North West
  Social Enterprise Trade Fair IN BUSINESS FOR
  GOOD
• (Aintree Racecourse, Merseyside). For further
  details contact info_at_senw.org.uk ,
  http//www.senw.org.uk/
• DTA NW Regional Network Meeting The Big Lunch!
  16th July 2009 (Cumbria)
• DTA national conference, 13th-15th Sept 09, Queen
  Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London
  www.dta.org.uk/conference2009

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Contacts
Jeff Scales Regional Development Manager
(Northwest) t 01254 889925m 07912 269668 e 
j.scales_at_dta.org.uk
Jackie McQueen Regional Development Officer
(Cumbria) t 01768 362111 m 07792 623783 e 
j.mcqueen_at_dta.org.uk
Chris ODonnell Regional Development Officer
(Northwest) t 0151 5237195 m 07949
042391 e  c.odonnell_at_dta.org.uk
Website www.dta.org.uk