Transforming Kingston's Infrastructure

Transforming Kingston’s Infrastructure Project (TKI) May 2012 – September 2013

Award finalists Two TKI projects nominated for the inaugural Kingston Business Awards: • Commitment to the Community • Training and Development

Kingston Community Furniture also nominated for Best Green Business

Thank you to our partners:

TLIs and TKI In early 2012, the Government awarded the last lot of grants to 74 local infrastructure organisations across England.

The aim was to rationalise and transform in order to improve access to high quality advice and support for front line organisations, enabling them to be well-led, influential, responsive, efficient and less reliant on statutory of Lottery funding.

Every local area delivered this in their own specific way.

What we promised to achieve in 18 months

1. Empower local organisations through improving their knowledge and skills

2. Progress the realisation of Kingston Community Hub

3. Enable local organisations to diversify and increase access to funding sources

Improving knowledge and skills Why? • Identified need (55% of staff in the voluntary sector still believe they don’t get sufficient training and development) • Capacity building is part of Kingston Voluntary and Community Sector Strategy • Dame Mary Marsh Review of Skills and Leadership found the charity sector wanting in 8 key areas

How we have achieved it:

59

Capacity-building

courses

500

people

local managers

achieved CMI Level 5 Diploma in

Management

& Leadership

21

organisations

mentored

1000

hours

consultants’

own time

Our courses speak for themselves “This was the best course the KVA has run for our organisation” Rebecca Wright, Kingstonfirst Evaluate the Impact and Value of your volunteering programme

“This is the BEST training course that I have ever been on. Daunting, yet exciting! Thanks” Matt Hatton, KCAH How to fundraise using Social Media, 26 June 2013

“Fantastic job! Well done, Sorrell you are very knowledgable. #sorrelfab!”

Carrie Tierney, EnhanceAble Ready, Steady, Tweet – Twitter for Beginners

Responding to the Dame Mary Marsh Review Attract and develop leaders Digital Fluency Enterprise Capability Data-informed social change Collaboration within and across sectors Skills sharing Pathways in and out of sector

Strengthening Governance

KVA & The Cranfield Trust in Partnership deliver BUSINESS CONSULTANCY

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The Cranfield Trust The Cranfield Trust provides free management support to voluntary organisations addressing issues of poverty, disability and social exclusion.

Working with 250 client organisations a year, nationally, the Trust has a register of over 700 management professionals and is the largest provider of tailored management consultancy support to the voluntary sector.

HRNet, the Trust’s online employment advice service.

Striving for sustainability Types of Support

Mentoring Social Enterprise Commissioning

20 5 6 Progress

11 8 2

Projects Completed Projects On-Going In Development

Our TKI success to date

1,000 ÂŁ500,000 hours of highly skilled management consultancy

worth a staggering

Can The Trust help your organisation? www.cranfieldtrust.org

Capacity Building Mentoring

“Frances has helped me to think more strategically, to be more forwardthinking, to stop being so reactive and to be more outcome focused.''

Listen to Nuwa Serunjogi’s experience Social Enterprise '' We are extremely grateful to The Cranfield Trust and indeed to Marcus for helping us to think laterally, and helping us to work through what we want/need to do. I don’t think we could have done it without you!''

Commissioning “You have done all you can'' recognising that there is no more to be done.

The Cranfield Trust’s 700+ Volunteers are high calibre managers, active in the commercial sector. Most have postgraduate qualifications and are from leading international business schools.

One of The Trust’s London Project Managers lives locally in Kingston

Where we are now "The project volunteer brought (what the charity needed) an objective, skilled and knowledgeable approach to our strategic planning needs…"

Business plans Performance Management

Where we want to be

Finance Strategy Human Resources

Marketing IT

“I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to have a mentor. Mark was extremely patient with me and his advice was fantastic”

Change

“I love what you guys do and that you exist in the world.”

Love is All We Need

24 years experience as the UK’s leading provider of free management consultancy for the voluntary sector

Kingston Community Hub A space for voluntary and community organisations to meet, learn and work together‌

How we have achieved it:

Memorandum of Understanding for the Kingston Community Hub Project signed on 13 Sept 2013 Leader of the Council, Councillor Liz Green, welcomes the work of TKI in supporting the development of a Kingston Community Hub

Further progress to date • Agreed principal of groups “pay no more than now” (collectively) • Inclusive package to be affordable • English Heritage “informally” squared (subject to formal planning process) • Refurbishment to happen regardless • Majority of original groups still on board

Issues to be confirmed • Length of lease? 10 or 20 years (5 year break clause)? Feedback?

• Separation (in perception) between RBK and Hub, ensuring integrity of the project • Heads of Terms, details of lease, payment schedules • Input into refurbishment design • Advice giving friendly lay-out

Timetables and landmarks • RBK confirm refurbishment plans end September 2014 • All preparation work and planning consents by end March 2014 (RBK) • Space planning exercises before end November 2013 • Governance and building management agreed by end 2013 • Occupation presently timetabled for end October 2014

Back offices and ICT provision options appraisal finalised We are confident that we can achieve reduced costs and an increased level and quality of services: • State of the art telephone system with fast access broadband • Printing/photocopying/scan/fax resource • Shared postage - Franking system • Possible shared HR advice.

• Ways to reduce stationary costs

Beyond buildings • Back office services, technology and intellectual • Co-locational and cross-referral benefits • “Hothouse” for smaller groups • Utilising experience of Hub project to cascade out (spokes etc.)

• A whole new future of sustainability and mutual co-operation for all

Our focus on funding Across the borough, many inspiring organisations run by dedicated individuals achieve extraordinary things with very limited resources.

For many their future depends on securing small but vital amounts of funding to reach individuals and communities in need.

That’s why we helped organisations start fundraising online and started an exciting new fundraising campaign for local groups.

How we have achieved it:

Online fundraising with Localgiving.com Provide local charities and community groups with the technology to raise money, awareness and support online.

Why Localgiving.com?

Reduce dependency on grants Provide new sources of funding and support Engage with local donors You DON’T have to be a registered charity

Receive Gift Aid regardless of size Match fund challenges

38

voluntary & community

organisations

893

donations received in only

one year

ÂŁ34,234.43

Organisations in Kingston upon Thames generated one third of London’s income on Localgiving.com

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Stories of Localgiving Charles Kounoupias& Femina Makkar

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Five Projects &

Kingston Legacy Fund www.love-kingston.org.uk

All Donations to Love Kingston shared equally between the Five local projects & The Kingston Legacy Fund

Five Projects

Legacy Fund 50% match funding

Launched on 4th October 2012

Press Coverage

Founding Donors

One Per Cent Scheme

CSR Partners

Established Love Kingston Day

ÂŁ2,470

funds received by

each project so far this year!

Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness

Hestia – Kingston Women’s Aid The Butterfly Project

Kingston Foodbank

SurreySave (Kingston Savers)

Oxygen – youth project

Today we present the second round of funds for each of our Love Kingston projects

What next?

Refreshments followed by Breakout Sessions at 3.30pm: Growth beyond grants Brighter futures: business skills Digital training & Learning Pool