Justin Ricks Email & Phone Number

Saint Dennis, GB

Truro, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for effectively engaging with a diverse range of VCSE organisations and stakeholders in Cornwall. Using a wide range of mediums for engagement opportunities. Leading the development of creative and engaging alliance meetings, workshops, consultations, surveys, events, conferences to strengthen an alliance-based model of engagement by expanding.

Redruth, Cornwall

Working within the Community Investment Team to develop creative and innovative approaches to community engagement, participation and development. Ensuring that customers' voices are at the centre of developing services. Supporting customers to access services to meet their health, wellbeing and personal development needs. Including running work placement.

Bath, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing and facilitating the successful development of an exciting new community hub that was built as part of the Mulberry Park Development in Bath. Worked with the existing local community and stakeholders to ensure that the community hub provided a high quality and beneficial facility for all. The hub incorporates a nursery, cafe, mixed.

Responsible for developing new business opportunities for Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC). Particularly focusing upon establishing the Bristol Makerlab and the Social Enterprise KWMC The Factory. https://kwmc.org.uk/thefactory/This involved developing business plans, fundraising and managing Makerlab associated projects that developed from the KWMC.

Leading and managing a Green Digital Business Programme to deliver a new approach to enterprise and skills development. Making the most of new green and digital technologies to provide opportunities for a community most in need of economic development.Capitalising on the growing recognition that many of the new jobs and enterprises of the future will rely.

Engaging and supporting people from under represented groups through 1:1, small group activities and specialist training, that enables them to make the enterprise journey into starting up their own business. Also supporting existing entrepreneurs from the same background with personal and business development. To enable them to achieve business growth..

Responsible for design, delivery and evaluation of a practical and innovative training programme delivered to start-up and existing small and medium size enterprise owner managers and employees.

Project Manager for an Incubation Programme called “SPACE”, involving the design, development, implementation and delivery of the programme, which won the UKBI National Award for Newcomer Business Incubation Environment of the Year 2007.Part of the support provided to clients involved the design, development, implementation, and training a team of 18.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Providing Independent Financial Planning Advice to individuals in a range of areas. Including Savings and Investments, Protection, Pensions and Mortgages. Specialising in Equity Release Mortgages.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Providing Financial Planning Advice to individuals and small business owners in a range of areas. Including Savings and Investments, Protection, Pensions and Mortgages. Specialising in providing advice to Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and Corporate in the areas of shareholder and partnership protection, key person protection and pensions.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Managed a portfolio of 300 small and medium sized enterprise clients. Supporting them with business advice to leading towards achieving personal and business development. Specialist ability to assist with business and financial planning for ranging from start-up businesses through to trading businesses aiming for business growth.

Leadership And Management, Level 5 Award

Business Support With Enterprise Training Specialism, Level 5 Diploma

Enterprise Mentoring, Level 3 Award

Certificate In Training Practice, Learning And Development, Level 3 Certificate With Distinction

A1 Assessor, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, And Research

Certificate For Financial Advisers Level 3, Financial Planning And Services

Certificate In Mortgage Advice And Practice, Mortgage Advice