Tony Ferguson Email & Phone Number

Andover, Gb

Newbury

Deputy CEO with responsibility for Finance and Domiciliary Care / Supported LivingOriginally set up a supported living project for people young people with challenging behaviour in Newbury (7 flats). and now added a second project (with a further 5 flats) Alongside this established a Domiciliary Care Agency (West Berkshire Mencap Your Choice Services) which is registered with CQC and trading effectively delivering around 1,700 hours of support per week. In addition to the Domiciliary Care and Supported Living I have responsibility for Finance including oversight of the compilation and ongoing monitoring of the annual budget for West Berkshire Mencap and all its service areas.I am also responsible for project management, business case and models for all new West Berkshire Mencap services from initiation through to integration in business as usual. I also take a lead in negotiation of any associated contracts and service level agreements.In addition I working closely with the Chief Executive, and supporting her and the Board of Trustees in providing direction and leadership, and in ensuring development and implementation of strategies and plans and act on behalf of the Chief Executive in her absence.

Newbury

Responsible for day to day oversight and management of the Charity reporting to the Chair of Trustees

Newbury

Deputy CEO with responsibility for Finance and Domiciliary Care / Supported LivingOriginally set up a supported living project for people young people with challenging behaviour in Newbury (7 flats). and now added a second project (with a further 5 flats) Alongside this established a Domiciliary Care Agency (West Berkshire Mencap Your Choice Services) which is registered with CQC and trading effectively delivering around 1,700 hours of support per week. In addition to the Domiciliary Care and Supported Living I have responsibility for Finance including oversight of the compilation and ongoing monitoring of the annual budget for West Berkshire Mencap and all its service areas.I am also responsible for project management, business case and models for all new West Berkshire Mencap services from initiation through to integration in business as usual. I also take a lead in negotiation of any associated contracts and service level agreements.In addition I working closely with the Chief Executive, and supporting her and the Board of Trustees in providing direction and leadership, and in ensuring development and implementation of strategies and plans and act on behalf of the Chief Executive in her absence.

Newbury

Have set up a supported living project for people young people with challenging behaviour in Newbury (7 units now full). Alongside this established a Domiciliary Care Agency (West Berkshire Mencap Your Choice Services) which is now registered with CQC and trading effectively delivering around 900 hours of support per week. Also involved in a wide range of other projects including a succesful 300K Lottery bid, Service reviews, Service Level Agreement and contract negotiations with local authority and private customers, tenders for new and existing services.

Newbury

In 2003 the Trust restructured its activities so that there was a separate trading subsidiary which was responsible for running and developing the Business Park. Having stepped down from West Berkshire Council and therefore given up my role as West Berkshire Council’s Trustee on the Greenham Common Trust Board I was invited to join the Business Park board in my own right. This is a commercial operation with a turnover of around £3m which covenants its profits to Greenham Common Trust.

Greenham & Crookham Common

From 2003 until 2007 I was the Chairman of the Greenham and Crookham Common Commission which was set up by the Act of Parliament to oversee the management of the common. From 2007 until 2012 I was Vice Chairman and in 2012 I was elected Chairman again serving until January 2014. I continue to be a Commissioner appointed by Greenham Trust

Liberty House, Greenham Business Park, Thatcham Rg19 6Hs

Liberty House, Greenham Business Park, Thatcham Rg19 6Hs

The Good Exchange is a new website that allows applicants, funders, fundraisers and donors to set up profiles with photographs and video, as well as add projects, funding schemes and fundraising events. Projects are automatically matched with funding schemes and donors can donate to their favourite projects.Good Exchange founding funder, Greenham Common Trust, has helped to shape the platform by sharing its five years’ experience of managing its own fundraising website findmegrant. With a single online application, local good causes on findmeagrant raised over £10.5m in grants, donations, Gift Aid and match funding on donations in West Berkshire and north Hampshire. That included £2.3m of public donations to local projects. The Trust itself has supported over 1,000 local organisations with over £34m of grant funding across most sectors of the community since it was established in 1997.

Newbury

Empowering West Berkshire (EWB) exists to promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of the public, principally but not exclusively in the local government area of West Berkshire and its area of benefit and, in particular, build the capacity of third sector organisations and provide them with the necessary support, information and services to enable them to pursue or contribute to any charitable purpose. Promote, organise and facilitate cooperation and partnership working between third sector, statutory and other relevant bodies in the achievement of the above purposes within West Berkshire.

Responsible for Development and Implementation of Yell Project Method (Yell’s in house methodology for management of all Projects.Providing consultancy and auditing on Project Management and Process Improvement.Project management of a Six Sigma project to improve the efficiency of the change management processesManagement of Process Mapping Projects and workshops within the IT department and across the business using Control-ESManagement of the administration functions within Control-ES for a department of 300 people plus functional and technical support.Production of internal User and Administrator guides for Control-ESManagement of departmental improvement initiatives e.g. improvements to the Development Process Development and Management of a business wide customer satisfaction survey and the associated annual action planAuditing and assessment of in house projects and processes against internal processes and external standards

Newbury

West Berkshire Mencap is a large local charity which provides a wide range of services to those with a learning disability in West Berkshire. I was the Trustee responsible for Link Up which is West Berkshire Mencaps Adult Employment and Training Scheme for people with a learning disability. I was heavily involved in the procurement and project management ( as a volunteer) of a brand new building (worth £2m) which led to a doubling of the available service. West Berkshire Mencap share the lease with another local charity and are able to lease desk space to burgeoning local charities.I was involved in long and complex negotiations between West Berkshire Council and West Berkshire Mencap which led to a ground breaking form of open book partnership contract which gives the Council a say in how the service is delivered and a ceiling on the funding it needs to provide whilst offering West Berkshire Mencap the stability of long term core funding. I was also involved in negotiating a set up grant for the new Link Up service.

Newbury

I was elected onto Newbury District Council in 1992 and was re-elected on three further occasions before standing down in 2003. In my job as Councillor I was able to develop and apply a whole range of skills including chairing meetings, public speaking, presentations and negotiating skills. I also learnt to deal with a wide range of people from constituents who found themselves homeless to Government Ministers. I was also elected to various posts within the Council including Deputy Leader, Chair of the Ruling Group and Cabinet Member for Public Protection and Waste. In these roles I acquired and developed a range of other skills including partnership working, policy making, strategic decision making and budgeting.

Newbury

Greenham Common Trust was established as a Charity by Sir Peter Michael, West Berkshire Council and other prominent local people in 1997. It acquired the former airbase at Greenham Common and the majority of the open space was returned to West Berkshire Council for restoration as heathland with public access. The remaining area of the airbase is run as a Business Park with the profits being distributed to local good causes.

Newbury

For the first five years of its existence I was the Chairman of the Trusts Distribution Committee which was responsible for setting up the policies and processes by which the grant aid would be distributed to local good causes. This involved analysing local needs and ensuring that the priorities for the grants given met those needs. This is an innovative trust which has many advantages including a light touch approach to monitoring and the ability to be flexible and proactive about its grant giving activities

Devizes

During this period I was a member of the Partnership Board which was responsible for drawing up and implementing a successful Heritage Lottery Fund application for restoration of the Kennet and Avon Canal. The Scheme was for £29.25m worth of works of which £25m was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund with the remainder being provided by the other partners including the Canal Trust, local businesses and local authorities.

Newbury

From 1999 to 2002 I was the Chairman of Greenham Committee which was responsible for drafting and overseeing the Greenham and Crookham Common Act as it was steered through parliament. I was also responsible for all negotiations with interested parties who wished to see amendments to the Act. I also attended and gave evidence to the committee in the Lords and attended parliamentary debates in the commons. I was also successfully lobbied the local members of Parliament to support the bill.

Management of liaison with all Business Systems areas to ensure that all compliance issues had been addressed including all interfaces between systems.Responsibility for liaison with Yellow Pages critical suppliers to ensure that all necessary steps had been taken to achieve compliance.Responsibility for ensuring that the Year 2000 change control rules were set up and adhered toSetting up and tracking of the main Year 2000 project plan and production of detailed hour by hour project plan for the critical period between Christmas Eve and New Year.

Newbury

From 1992 onwards I was involved in efforts to return the former Greenham Common Airbase to public use. I chaired the Greenham and Crookham Common Advisory Committee and was also involved in developing a planning brief for the area which had previously been protected by Crown Immunity. I also took part in several exploratory meetings which then led to me being involved in the establishment of the Greenham Common Trust.

Master Of Science (Msc),, Voluntary Sector Management, Distinction

This describes what the PGDip/Msc provides (taken from the Bayes website) Gain broad knowledge and understanding of non-profit.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Government