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| Charity
of the Year |
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Sponsored
by
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 Mark
Ingram, head of insurance at Ansvar Insurance with winner
Martin Kinsella, chief executive of P3 and the awards'
host Dominic Holland |
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| WINNER:
P3 |
| Formally
known as The Good Shepherd Trust, the charity underwent
a modernisation programme in 2004 when its name was changed
to P3, the social inclusion charity. At the same time,
changes to the senior management team and governance structure
were introduced, and a corporate business plan and stragetic
plan developed. Following this, several initiatives have
been launched which have improved P3's responsiveness
to the equalities agenda, for example, an equality and
diverstiy steering group has been set up. It has also
worked with the Charities Evaluation Service, its service
users and the staff team to develop a measurement tool
which enables it to evaulate the outcomes of its services.
Much work has also been done to improve the learning and
development of its employees, and the charity was awarded
an Investors in People in June 2004. Overall, the modernisation
programme has enabled P3 to meet its objectives and develop
a solid infrastructure that allows it to provide improved
services for both users and employees. |
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| SHORTLIST:
Tomorrow's People |
| Tomorrow's
People's objective is to help the hardest to reach groups
within society find their way into work, training or education
so that each individual it helps, and the community in
which they live, thrives and prospers. It has done this
by designing a number of innovative programmes to reach
its target groups, one of which involves a partnership
with a North West London health clinic where it runs a
specialist employment outreach clinic offering job search
support, CV preparation and interview training - so far
87% of those who have registered for the employment service
have returned to work. An independent evaluation of Tomorrow's
People by Oxford Economic Forecasting found that the charity
had helped 382,000 people since 1984, including finding
165,000 people new employment. The evaulation calculated
the benefits to society over the last 20 years to be worth
approximately £450m. |
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| SHORTLIST:
Street Child Africa |
| Over
the past seven years, Street Child Africa has maintained
a unique status as the only UK charity entirely devoted
to addressing the desperate needs of street children across
Africa. Founded in 1998, it has grown from a kitchen table
of volunteers to having a board of eight trustees, four
full-time and two part-time staff, a second office in
Scotland, and a UK-wide network of volunteers. It has
doubled its income year on year, which totalled £400,000
in 2004. Street Child Africa has built close and transparent
partnerships of trust with small grassroots African agencies
who work with street children, and by installing measures
of governance in the UK they are able to respond quickly
to emergency situations as well as demonstrate long-term
accountability. |
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