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He lives in a chaotic household with all members of his family having issues with mental/physical health as well as learning difficulties. His well-being is currently adversely affected by poor diet, lack of activity, social isolation and conflict within the family. He is very sensitive and very worried about the health of his father and younger brother. His learning difficulties mean that he is usually unable to articulate his distress which leads to low moods. He would greatly benefit from spending time out from his household with an adult who would be able to give him the time to listen to him and help him cope with the complex situation at home. He would love to be more active. He has a great sense of humour and can be very enthusiastic in the right setting.
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Guidance teacher on a young person recently started on the Day1 program
Young people are always at the heart of our work
“Day1 has been the best thing that has happened to me. My mentor Zoe is the most amazing wonderful person and I don’t know where I would have been without her.” Molly Day1er.
94 percent success
Day1 has achieved a rate when measured against our number one outcome which is‌ young people who participate on the program gaining employment, education or training in a full time capacity that will allow them to achieve their potential. This measure is taken at the end of the 12 month program and is especially impressive, given the high probability of the young people referred to Day1 becoming NEET.
Striving to improve upon our highly respected service last year, we once again sought structured feedback from service users new and old, alongside input from partners. The result is the continued evolution of Day1 where new ideas are tested whilst proven solutions are maintained as the cornerstone of our work. In recognition of the need for a dynamic, fluid approach to relationship-building it is this ability to both explore new techniques whilst focusing on the hard outcomes of helping young people achieve sustainable employment that is one of the keys to our success. A year with many milestones; highlights of which have been winning the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Services and completing contract-signing to build our social enterprise; this annual review presents a number of examples of how our work transforms the lives of young people and illustrates how we are able to scale up this impact through our social enterprise ambitions.
Corrin Henderson
Operations Director Day1
Day1 The Idea The Day1 mentoring program helps these young people (Day1ers) to become focused and encourages them to unlock their potential, regain self-confidence and ultimately help them find employment in an area they are passionate about.
Day1 is a youth mentoring program set up to provide a much needed support system for young people who are struggling to find direction in life.
Since 2006, the charity has enrolled more than 150 young people, aged between 14 & 16.
The Day1 mentoring program helps these young people (Day1ers) to become more focused and encourages them to unlock their potential, regain self-confidence and ultimately find them employment in an area they are passionate about.
Day1 purposely seeks to work with young people in this age range because there is a risk that in this transitional phase of development, poor decision-making may have a lasting negative effect on employability.
Throughout the year-long mentoring program, Day1 helps to find work experience for these young people, thus improving their employability and giving them an insight into the world of work which prevents them from falling into the NEET category (Not in Education, Employment or Training).
Day1ers & Mentors Day1 is linked to 8 schools in the Highland area. Day1ers come from mixed backgrounds but all are in danger of becoming part of the NEET category. Many Day1ers have experienced hardship, whether it be bullying, close family bereavement or coming from an unsettled family environment. These experiences can leave many young people feeling isolated and adrift in life. The Day1 mentors provide a safety net for them and are always on hand to listen and offer advice. A Day1 mentor is a role model - must be dependable and be able to encourage a ‘can do’ attitude within a young person. Each mentor is provided with the Day1 training that equips them to focus on the principal outcome for their Day1er, namely sustainable employment. Sustainable employment comes as a result of many hours of contact between mentor and Day1er, where positive, realistic destinations are identified and pursued. Day1ers are encouraged to develop their CV and work on employability skills. The year spent with Day1 in itself is viewed as a very positive life-skills program by employers. By the end of the year the success of the program is measured against whether the Day1er has chosen to go into employment, further education or training. To date, 94% of the young people on the Day1 program have.
Number 1 Outcome
“To be in education or employment or training towards employment.”
This ‘hard’ outcome is easily measureable and Day1will continue to build our reputation based upon our ability to help our young people to attain it. Attainment is recorded at the end of the 12 month program for each participant and also on an ongoing historic basis. We now have five years of records and we know exactly what each of our Day1ers is doing one, two, three and four years after they have completed the course. The results, we hope, speak for themselves with 94% of our Day1ers achieving our first intended outcome. In addition, the so-called ‘soft’ outcomes such as increasing self- esteem, building positive direction and respect for others etc. are built on the back of the focus on the main ‘hard’ outcome, i.e. getting into work. We believe that ‘work is good’ and that, in the process of securing, holding down and growing within a job, we can also ensure that each young person improves on all those ‘soft’ skills and attributes that are key for living a good life and creating a positive direction. Our progress against our ‘hard’ outcome is visible to all and, with some past Day1ers now starting to become mentors, our hope is that this cultural change that ‘work is good’ will settle ever more deeply into the lives of those in our community who need it most.
Work Experience Partnership Program
For many young people work experience through school is the only opportunity they have to get a taste of employment. Many businesses cannot afford the time to involve the young person completely.
Day1 has sought to engage partner organisations who are prepared to sign up to providing work experience to our young people that are focused and add real value. The aim is to give each young person a true insight into the world of employment whilst being engaged in actual work. Day1’s Partnership Program relies on organisations that are able to put a work mentor in place for the duration of the experience (5 days) to make it more valuable in terms of learning the main aspects of a working environment. The pilot of this program was undertaken at Aquascot Limited in Alness. The feedback from both the young people on the placement and the team at Aquascot has been invaluable. So far Day1 has signed up Aquascot, Lifescan, Macrae and Dick, Cairngorm Windows, Little Angels and Fairways and placements to all of these providers are offered to all our Day1ers. Day1 mentors are instructed to encourage their young people to participate in the program. As a part of the core service, the provision of placements on the Partnership Program are in addition to work experience placements that Day1ers request and put together with their mentors. The key to the success of a placement hinges on the positive mentor relationship between a responsible partner employee and the young person (Day1er). This is an opportunity to really inspire a young person. As mentoring is a goal-oriented process that supports informal learning and development, goals are developed around the young person’s interests, abilities and aspirations.
Facts & Figures Money raised to date: ÂŁ1.7m Mentors trained to date: 140 Number of young people benefitting from Day1 Service: 176 94% participants entering employment, education or employment 10 Day1ers have returned to Day1 to become volunteer mentors
8 schools in partnership with Day1 21 residential weekends since 2007 work placements completed: 170
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To construct a new indoor go-karting arena in Inverness. Located at Fairways Golf and Leisure, features of the facility will include spectators lounge, briefing room, state of the art karts and race management system, café and fly over bridge. The twin aims are to provide a new venue to support young people with greater needs vocationally through appropriate training and employment opportunities and also to provide an income stream to allow Day1 to maintain and expand upon the number of young people benefitting from our mentoring program. Social covenant agreed with principle funding partner, Social Investment Scotland. • Part-time employment of young people. 16 young people at any one time on 10 hours per week. For each of first three years. • Work experience for young Day1 service users and other referred young people. Target 40 per year for each of first three years. • Training. Day1 service users and other young people. Target: A minimum 100 per year for each of first three years in mechanics, maintenance, catering and customer service. • Community Pathways Program: Premises to be made available to allow community leaders to meet with young people during school hours, estimated 2 hours per day 5 days per week in term time for each of the first three years. • Vulnerable young people mentored in the first three years 90.
Impact investment Social Investment Opportunities
As defined by Global Impact Investment Network as, “investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.” Now attracting tax relief under the new Social Investment Tax Relief scheme, see: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-investment-tax-relief-factsheet Day1 is looking to attract impact investors to Inverness Kart Raceway.
Corporate sponsorship
We believe there is a unique opportunity for local businesses to fulfil their social responsibility agenda through a commercial association with Inverness Kart Raceway whilst benefitting from innumerable sponsorship benefits.
Volunteering
We believe the profile of Inverness Kart Raceway will help us continue to secure volunteers from the community both to allow us to fulfil our social covenant through IKR and to maintain and expand upon our existing core service level with Day1.
Patronage
If Inverness Kart Raceway is to be the success we believe it deserves to be, every £1 spent by you, our customers, directly benefits the young people of your community.
Did You know?
Financing an individual who is not in education, employment or training (NEET) costs the taxpayer around £95,000 in welfare. The majority of the costs come from unemployment and underemployment
By investing in Inverness Kart Raceway you are helping local teenagers to develop self-belief, to gain confidence in the workplace, to be more positive about authority and gain respect for others. You are helping our young to help themselves long-term.
In the Highlands approximately 350 teenagers per year will be included on the NEET register. The success of Inverness Kart Raceway will allow us to expand upon the number of young people who benefit from our service. For more information please contact: Corrin Henderson on 0845 367 0651 or email corrin@day1.uk.com
PRESS RELEASE Mentoring charity joins forces with IT company in a refreshing approach to social enterprise, thus creating a product that supports similar charities. Award winning Scottish charity, Day1, has undertaken a joint venture with a commercial partner sfG Software, an IT company from Inverness. Day1 commissioned sfG Software to design a bespoke software package for the charity to help secure long-term funding for Day1. The product was launched in December 2011 and will be sold not only to other mentoring charities but also to organisations in the private and educational sectors that are involved in mentoring. The mentoring charity Day1 has tackled the problem of securing long-term funding from a new angle and has come up with a self-sufficient strategy. The result is a valuable software product which not only generates money but also strengthens the core functionality of the organisation, while also helping other charities to better serve their purpose. The benefits of this joint venture will demonstrate the possibilities for third sector organisations to make money in an entrepreneurial fashion. By utilising the experience and expertise of a commercial partner, Day1 can support other charities whilst, at the same time, providing for their own needs. The software package called MentorNet is an online forum for mentors which allows them to communicate with other mentors, record reports on their meetings with their mentee and allows for more efficient monitoring of the mentor’s progress by the organisation’s admin team. David Garvie Director Joint venture partner sfG Software had this to say; “two and a half years in and MentorNet continues to attract new customers, including some early successes in the US market and the UK business sector. It is now cash positive, with all current development funded by ongoing subscriptions. The product continues to develop with new features being driven by feedback from current users. MentorNet is a core part of the faceto-face and e-mentoring programmes of a number of universities, charities and businesses across the UK and the US.”
MentorNet Social Enterprise Unique social enterprise venture for Highland charity
The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service In June 2014, Day1 was presented the highest national honour that can be bestowed upon volunteering groups, The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. Termed the MBE for volunteering groups, it recognises the outstanding contribution made to local communities by groups in the UK voluntarily devoting their time for the benefit of others. Only 6 charities in Scotland won the award this year. The board would like to express their particular gratitude to our volunteer mentors who put themselves forward year on year to help more young people. “By stepping up as a DAY1 Mentor, you have helped all these young people reach a launching point for adulthood that would not be possible without you. I can see too that a lot of focus and work has been done to win them work experiences and real training opportunities that will lead them into solid sustainable careers. This is exactly what DAY1 is about and I wanted to say thank you from Robert, Corrin and I for your enthusiasm, your professionalism and, most of all, for caring enough to join the DAY1 team in the first place. As your Day1ers now negotiate their next stage of growing up, I hope your individual relationships with them will continue far into the future. Thank you again, DAY1 would not exist without you.”
Ed Ley Wilson Co-founder Day1
Day1 was presented with the highest national honour that can be bestowed upon volunteering groups
Other Milestones Young people and mentors from Day1 have been invited to represent Scotland’s Big Lottery to present the benefits of funding from dormant accounts to senior banking personnel in London. Reclaim Fund Ltd makes it possible for money in dormant bank and building society accounts to be used to help good causes. Its purpose and vision is to distribute surplus monies for the benefit of good causes For any further information about Day1 please contact Co-ordinator Corrin Henderson on 0845 367 0651 or email across the UKwww.day1.uk.com and to maximise the benefit for those causes through their corrin@day1.uk.com or visit: For any further information about Day1 please contact Co-ordinator Corrin Henderson on 0845 367 0651 or email stewardship of unclaimed corrin@day1.uk.com or visit: www.day1.uk.comassets. £194m has been transferred since the Thank you for your interest in Day1! fund’s inception in 2011. Thank you for your interest in Day1!
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Funding secured this year includes the second year of funding from the Big Lottery Young Start program, the 6th continuous year of funding from Highland Council and a new 3 year package with the Robertson Trust.
Day1 is proud to be working with the following new funding partners in 2013/14 – The Moffat Charitable Trust, Moray Firth Radio Cash for Kids, The Gannochy Trust and The Rozelle Trust.
“The type of activities and mentoring that Day 1 can offer is invaluable and engages the young people directly. One recent experience was with an S4 pupil who had disengaged from school completely and had become totally isolated from school and from friends. No other support service had been able to engage successfully with this young person and he was in real danger of becoming NEET. Day1 provides a unique service to young people who are feeling lost and isolated. The fact that the support continues long after the young person has left school is also really important and provides the young person with some consistency and continuity in their life.” Guidance teacher of a School in partnership with Day1
“The highlights of my year so far on the Day1 program? There have been so many! The three work experiences I did were really helpful and the 2 weekend trips were amazing. But it is really just the simple things that have made the most difference. Being able to tell your mentor everything and then to get their support in working through things that are really holding you back… That’s what I love the most about Day1.” Day1er
“I am immensly proud of my Mentee and all that he has acheived in the 12 months (and beyond) that I have known him. I have been priveledged to watch him grown from a quiet, shy boy into a young man and firmly believe that Day1 has had a hugely positive influence on a his turbulent and complex life”. Day1 Mentor Funding partner Business Service Officer commenting on The Queen’s Award. “This is fantastic news for Day1. I know how hard you and your team have worked on developing the charity and training and supporting the mentors over recent years. It is great to know that the young people and community partners value your efforts and the Queen’s Award is evidence of this. It is also a fantastic opportunity to spread the word about Inverness Kart Raceway and your aspirations for this social enterprise which I’m sure will also be a successful business venture”
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“My Mum died a few years ago and I have felt lost and out of control ever since. I knew I was making some bad choices but I didn’t care. My mentor knows me better than anyone now and I don’t know where I would be now if it wasn’t for Day1.” Day1er
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Money Matters
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In 2013/14 our work cost £7.08 per beneficiary per day, down by £2.03.
Out of every £1 we spent 91p went on our work with young people.
For every £1 spent on fund-raising we raised £21
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Day1 Headline Financial Position For Year End March 2014 based on draft accounts Funds Generated Total expenses Net Income/Expenses
£90,911 £77,613 £13,298
Reserves at March 2013 Reserves at March 2014
Restricted £86,778 £88,681
Unrestricted £12,570 £25,215
Getting Involved MENTORING
Day1 is always recruiting volunteer mentors. Call Corrin Henderson on 0845 367 0651 for details.
DONATIONS
Donations can be made by logging onto www.day1.uk.com, and by clicking on the make a donation link.
WORK EXPERIENCE
For details of what Day1 is looking for regarding work experience placements email Corrin Henderson on: corrin@day1.uk.com
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