LivabilityReport and Accounts Livability
What we did in 2010/11 - Aim 1 (cont’d): To continue to provide and improve our high quality, cost effective, personalised services that support, educate and enable disabled children, young people and adults to live their lives to the full. What we said we would do
What we did
Refine and improve Livability’s quality management system in the light of the new registration standards and inspection frameworks that regulate Livability’s work.
A new department, the Quality and Performance Unit, has been set up to ensure that Livability has total quality at all levels and the ability to test its progress against relevant performance objectives.
Investing in improving our buildings and estate, through continuing the capital appeals at Victoria Education Centre and John Grooms Court and the two feasibility studies into the reprovision of off-site learning at Nash College and upgrade of Ashley House.
Fundraising for the John Grooms Court Appeal has been successful and the work to provide five new rooms and a new lift is underway. Phase One for the Victoria Education Centre Appeal has made excellent progress and detailed planning has been authorised. Planning on the Ashley House upgrade is well advanced and the reprovision of off-site learning at Nash College has been subsumed into a comprehensive review of post-19 education to take into account changes to the delivery model for specialist colleges.
What we did in 2010/11 - Aim 2: To equip and inspire local churches and ourselves to respond effectively to issues of poverty, disability and injustice in a range of practical ways through community development and social action. What we said we would do
What we did
Maximise community impact through our partnership with Tearfund.
Through our partnership website www.communitymission.org.uk we reached 15,000 individual visitors, over 3,000 people engaged with our monthly eNews and over 400 people attended partnership events. These outcomes provided examples of local change to include on the website, and resulted in increasing numbers of people being trained in community mission locally. The partnership also began extensive work in expanding the network through new collaborations.
Developing community mission training resources and materials.
A new health check resource for churches was developed alongside newly provided training materials across the training programme. The highly popular “Just People?” DVD course developed with Tearfund has been reviewed and redeveloped, adding resources from a new partner. The Community Mission staff team has also developed an innovative model of assessing social impact both of its training events and local grassroots consultancy work.
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