Yakub Patel Email and Phone Number

Lancaster District CVS works to represent, promote and develop local voluntary and community organisations across Lancaster district and Central Lancashire. We have offices in Lancaster and Preston offering a range of voluntary sector services. We aim to strengthen the sector, build partnerships and influence local policy. We provide a wide range of services that enables charitable organisations to grow and deliver. We offer IT support, specialised training programmes for volunteers and paid staff, funding and social enterprising information, providing a range of financial services including payroll and independent examinations and finally the largest volunteering brokerage scheme. We currently manage over 900 volunteer applications and looking to place these in the interest of their work. We aim to support everyone working in the charitable sector especially those working with hard to reach groups. We have over 1000 members and we are dedicated to protecting the work the charity sector offers in the areas we work in.

Changing the lives of disadvantaged young people, aged 13-19 through weekly support programs and life changing expeditions. Examples include cycling (achieved Lancaster to Edinburgh in 3 days), cycling from Blackpool Tower to Eiffel Tower, conquering the Yorkshire 3 peaks, National 3 peaks, canoeing the Great Caladonian Canal and walking the length of Hadrian Wall. We are committed to supporting over 3 years helping young people throughout their youth. Our other work includes nutrition programme, gym based training, training and development, mentoring, counselling, team building workshops and working towards Silver Duke of Edinburgh award. Highlights have included meeting Jason Quealy, 2 times Gold Olympic winner at London Olympics, Project of the year by Sport England and improving the lives of local young people.

-Managing the day to day running of a medium size organisation including 20 paid staff members and 10 volunteers,-Budget and finance management, including SAGE50,-10 years HR experience,-Premises management,-Maintaining and securing long term funding, both capital and revenue,-Successful management of Home Office funding, Social Investment funding,-Managing local & student volunteers, Trustees and paid staff and their training & development,-Experienced management of Pupil Referral units and partnership working within 12 secondary high schools,-Identifying local needs and working with all sections of the community,-Working with children and young people, particularly hard to reach and responding to their needs,-Global Youthwork,-Providing support to vulnerable children, young people and thier families,-Supporting people with mental health issues, elderly in partnership with local partners,-Supporting people with housing issues, homeless applications, universal benefit applications, general social security assistance, -Neighbourhood management and regeneration,-Community work, -Providing the community with a dynamic and safe centre with good facilities and modern space,-Implementing Every Child & Youth Matter principles,-knowledge and experience of working together with families agenda, CAF, child protection,-Experience in commissioning models and managing contracts,-Multi-agency working - working together with local police, councillors, government agencies, VCFS partners, primary and nursery education and the local children Centre,-Preparing and designing research projects,-Social network, website management and office 2010 experience.

-Strategic support for services working with children and young people aged 0-19-Providing support to achieve a comprehensive quality framework for all childcare settings, youth settings and integrated centres-Provide support to achieve accreditation and self certification-Carrying out audits on behalf of 4Children to ensure standards and quality.

-Supporting fathers, especially young fathers and those 'hard to reach' and their family, through information and advice work,-Assisting Dads back in to work, training and further education,-One2one work with young fathers providing practical advice relating to housing, benefits, education, employment, and legal issues -Providing regular activities for children and their family.

-Providing projects and activities to Asian young men and young people in the deprived wards of Lancaster,-Providing information and advice including career support, sexual health and substance misuse support,-Detached / Outreach work within local communities. -Youth worker on the New Horizon progarmme - working with NEET young people,-Youth worker at the Morecambe Youth Cafe' - providng information &advice, healthy cooking, DJing and positive activities,-Youth worker at the Youth Venue on Ryelands Park - helping to transform an old disuded cafe into a Youth Club facility for young peole living in the Skerton area,-Youth worker on Summer Splash programmes,-Project planning,-Working with young people and community members in projects. Using sport as a vehicle to promote citizenship, help reduce crime and juvenile nuisance and encourage greater involvement in the local community.

Specialising in developing and delivering culturally-sensitive projects, and assisting local organisations to engage young people and hard to reach communities. Provided advice, experiences and support to young people and young adults to help advance their life skills so as to enable them to take full and active roles in society.

-Maintains welds on various items using a variety of processes (manual arc, tungsten inert gas, metallic inert gas, brazing, cement core drilling, sheet metal, steam-fitting, etc.) -Repair metal surfaces (e.g. doors, drain covers, fences, gates, grates, furniture, tools, parts, electric motorized gates, sheetmetal, etc.)-Installs various items (e.g. backboards, serving lines, railings, fences, re-wiring trailer lights, etc.)-