Horizon Youth Zone is a brand-new state-of-the-art facility being built in the heart of Grimsby, providing activities, support and a safe space for the local young people. With skilled youth workers at the forefront it’s going to create opportunities for years to come. Open 7 days a week, with an annual membership of £5/yr and just 50p a session it will be the place to go for anyone who is 8-19 (25 with additional needs). Creating a family of amazing Founder Patrons is my key activity right now, so if you would like to get involved, feel free to drop me a message.

Providing support to vulnerable adults whilst they are in custody.

Working on various projects for Forum from the Humber Social Enterprise Accelerator programme to Poverty Truth Commission, Social Inclusion project to my current project of setting up a Mental Health Collaborative in Hull and East Riding. Work is very varied and consists of Business Needs Analysis, Action Planning and providing support to Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises. Also involved in researching and setting up Employee Management System and writing HR documents including Staff Handbook and policy/procedure documents. Some consultancy work for HR issues for other organisations too.

Developing effective relationships between statutory, business and VCSE sectors; managing relationships in a positive way and promoting the VCSE sector as an equal partner;Promoting asset-based community solutions and social action;Working with stakeholders to co-produce community commissioning model and quality assurance processes, providing a mechanism for the development of place-based community solutions;Co-producing tender/grant bids for the benefit of the community.

Operations ManagerManaging government funded contracts for AEB and e-assessment; contract signatory Monitoring funding, creating funding and KPI targets and reports ESFA and learndirect relationship managementCompletion of due diligence paperwork, SAR, QIP, EDIMS, proformas and profilesQuality and audit, writing observation process and maintaining clean audit filesSuccessfully got BAD onto ROTO and ROaTPSuccessful in tender process for direct AEB contract through ESFAManagement of centre performance and centre staffing including Rotas, holidays, sickness, setting targets, staff training, inductions, Functional skills, IT and observation trainingManagement of e-assessment provision Management of Learner Recruitment team and liaison with JCP officesEmployee matters ie salary revise, expenses, appraisals, action plansProduction of all policy and procedure documents and staff handbookWriting Employability and Self-employment programmesMatrix, Ofsted and IIPAnd more! 😀