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Newton-Le-Willows, Gb

Tempo Time Credits is a national charity offering a rewards programme for volunteers in order to recognise their contribution in communities across the UK and promote volunteering activity. My role is to manage and deliver co-production and community development contracts across Lancashire and Birmingham. I'm accountable for all contract deliverables including profitability. I'm proactive and passionate about communities and about creating positive, lasting change that builds on the skills and assets of all. I have significant experience of customer engagement and enable customers to understand the features and benefits of Tempo Time Credits. I communicate effectively about our work, build relationships quickly and collaborate with team members to achieve goals.

Isle Of Coll

Hebrides Flat is a comfortable self-catering apartment in the village of Arinagour, Isle of Coll. The accommodation has three bedrooms sleeping up to seven people, plus a cot, and was redecorated in early 2017. The flat is ideally situated in the island’s main hub, Arinagour, with beautiful views over the bay. The local hotel bar and restaurant, cafe, community centre and shops are just a few minutes walk away whilst the ferry terminal is very close by. See www.hebridesflat.com for further info.

Wakefield, England, United Kingdom

Nova is a member organization and the support agency for the voluntary and community sector in Wakefield and I worked with a range of organisations and individuals across the District. My main duties are summarised below:• Provide tailored development support to voluntary and community organisations to enable organisational sustainability, good governance and high quality of service delivery.• To manage contracts and coordinate delivery with a range or partner organisations and stakeholders, including voluntary organisations and the local authority.• To contribute to the development of community led solutions to meet local needs including volunteering, Community Anchors and community led businesses.• To secure resources for Nova and Nova members to support sustainability including the development of paid for services.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Venture Scotland offers an outdoor-based personal development programme which empowers vulnerable young people aged 16-30, who face complex and difficult problems. We build the confidence and skills of young people and aim to empower each individual we work with to make positive and lasting changes in their lives and play a positive role in their communities.My role is to lead all aspects of Glasgow operations and ensure the successful delivery of our projects. I manage a team of outdoor youth workers who deliver the Journey Programme, a high quality, coherent and consistent programme for young people that supports them to achieve their individual goals.I'm especially keen to link up with anyone supporting young people in and around Glasgow and always happy to meet up to discuss the aims, ethos and vision of Venture Scotland.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

The overall aim of my role is to provide a dedicated programme of practical support to social enterprise in identifying and responding effectively to emerging tender and other business opportunities. The role will support social enterprises to develop partnerships and consortia. Key Responsibilities:• Linking with social enterprises and social firms across Scotland to assess interest and capacity with regard to bidding for contracts.• Supporting partnerships or clusters of social enterprises – not only for tendering – but for developing new services; joint working; scaling up etc.• Building links with key public sector procurers (e.g. Local Authorities; NHS Trusts; Scottish Govt etc) in regard to both current and future tender opportunities.• Establishing links with other third sector intermediaries – i.e. TSIs; DTA Scotland; CRNS.• Working closely with Ready for Business Consortium partners via Developing Markets contract.• Identifying existing good practice examples for dissemination amongst social enterprises and wider third sector organisations.• Organise and facilitate bespoke training events and seminars with regard to partnerships and consortia development – at both a local and regional level.• Representing Senscot and Social Firms Scotland at events both locally and nationally.• Produce Case Studies as exemplars of good practice in partnership/joint working; consortium building.• Liaise with Senscot Legal re development of appropriate templates for partnership working/consortium building.

Each year, members of The Touring Network, stage over 700 events in the highlands and islands in over 60 small-scale venues from community centres to pubs, village halls to historic castles. Set amidst some of the most breath-taking scenery in the world, these small-scale events bring you up close and personal with the very best performers from across Scotland and beyond.The Touring Network exists to see rural touring be a central, celebrated and indispensable part of the cultural life of Scotland. We exist to enable live performances of the highest level, transforming people as promoters, performers and audiences to create vibrant places to live, work and visit.Our venues cover over half the area of Scotland. We have promoters working in communities across Highland, Argyll & Bute, Moray, Orkney, Shetland and Perthshire.We work on behalf of our members and alongside partner organisations to strengthen and support the rural touring ecology as a whole and and to ensure that touring and promoting remain accessible and relevant to all.We provide a forum for voluntary promoters across the Highlands and Islands to connect and network sharing knowledge, skills and resources. We develop relationships between promoters and performers and help the best performances reach people who make them happen.We are committed to bringing live performances of the highest quality to all areas of the Highlands and Islands. Through our touring scheme we are able to support performances in under-represented geographic areas and genres.

Scottish Independent Hostels (SIH) is a Membership Association of independently owned Hostels in Scotland. It is the largest Hostel network of its type in the world, with 130 Hostels located from Scotland’s Highlands and Islands to the vibrant cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness within its membership. Each one of our Hostels is unique, providing hospitality from independent owners that is excellent value, customer-led and quality assured. The description “Hostel” includes Backpackers, Bothies, Bunkhouse, Group Accommodation and Activity Accommodation and, yes, Hostels!SIH is managed by a Board of Directors on behalf of the Association. SIH is a not-for-profit Company to support Independent Hostel Members and to promote Independent Hostelling in Scotland. As a voluntary Director, I help to ensure the quality standards are being met, represent the Hostels interests within Scotland and undertake marketing initiatives. SIH works closely with Independent Hostels UK in promoting the benefits of Hostelling.

To take the strategic responsibility for the financial and community success of the Isle of Coll's new community centre, An Cridhe, and hostel, Coll Bunkhouse. To develop both businesses to be fully self-sustaining, whilst maximising community benefit including full use of the facilities by the community and visitors.Working with Directors, take a lead on representing and promoting the organisation.Prepare business and marketing plans on behalf of the Management Committee and Board of Directors.Business development through co-operative working with tour operators and similar potential hirers of AC / CB. Working with local businesses, promote tourism on Coll and raise the profile of the island.Marketing of facilities through proactive means including direct mail, advertising, press releases, websites, promotional material and personal contact. Partnership working with other islands for networking and joint promotion of islands / key facilities.To identify and prioritise grant funding opportunities for AC / CB or closely related services.Succession planning for AC / CB beyond 2013 relating to staffing structure and operations.Support (or arrange support) for groups of local residents, individuals and businesses to create demand for the facilities at AC / CB.Prepare and present reports to the Management Committee (for AC / CB) and Board of Directors of Development Coll including financial forecasts and progress against targets including outputs required by funders.Ensure that policies and procedures are in place, understood and adhered to including for HR, H&S, security, operations, finance, customer service, quality and complaints.Demonstrate that the style of working for the organisation includes accountability, transparency, commitment to excellent service and community engagement and involvement.Ensure that returns to funders and to OSCR / Companies House are timely and accurate.Line manage staff including reviews and appraisals where required.

Forth Sector is a social enterprise providing employment support to people recovering from mental health problems. The organisation operates several social businesses which operate on a more than profit basis – seeking to generate income whilst meeting the social aims of the charity. Forth Sector Development is the consultancy arm which provides business development services both internally, to Forth Sector’s own businesses, and externally, to third sector organisations across Scotland. My job was split between business development for Forth Sector businesses and working on Scottish Government funded contracts, such as Just Enterprise, providing business support to charities and social enterprises across the country. The key duties are summarised below:• Project managed business support assignments working with managerial staff at over twenty organisations on a one-to-one basis and developed excellent working relationships • Worked with organisations to identify objectives, set targets and outline practical action plans to help them become more sustainable• Developed effective working relationships with delivery partners on Scottish Government contracts• Liaised and networked with a range of stakeholders and attended events such as conferences, seminars, and exhibitions• Organised and delivered training sessions, seminars and workshops on marketing, impact measurement and procurement to Third Sector organisations• Developed business for several Forth Sector businesses including a three star guest house, a retail outlet on the Royal Mile and a commercial laundry • Managed databases for three of these businesses using a combination of excel spreadsheets and Salesforce customer relationship management software• Promoted the businesses through a range of communication tools and by organising various sales campaigns and promotional events• Conducted market research, customer profiling and customer relationship management activities for each business