Jail 'n' Bail fundraising for Ormiston Children and Families Trust

26/03/2013

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A big thank you to everyone who has contributed bail money to secure Chris's release from jail.  Chris is still trying to riase more bail for Ormiston Children and Families Trust (www.ormiston.org).

If you can please continue to help this very special charity.  It's easy to do.  Just go to www.justgiving.com/chris-banks-jail or TEXT:  BANK90 £10  to 70070 (or less than £10).

This can make a real difference to children's lives 
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NHS Expo 2013

13/03/2013

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NHS Expo 2013 starts this morning at Excel in Docklands. We are supporting the Healthcare UK team, part of UKTI, which has been established to promote the best of UK healthcare overseas www.ukti.gov.uk/healthcareuk.


Hope to see you there.
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Chris Banks is innocent, ok

07/03/2013

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Please help....

We urgently need your help.

On 26th March Chris Banks will be arrested by Special Constables for assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm to his computer.

Proclaiming his innocence, Chris Banks said " I had an urgent report to get out but every time I booted up my computer it gave me the dreaded blue screen.  Finally I cracked under the intense provocation and in an instant found an entirely novel, and terminal way, of "booting up a computer".  My foot has now healed but the computer is no more."

During the special "Jail and Bail" event, Chris will be taken into custody by special constables while attending a breakfast hosted by Penny Walkinshaw, High Sheriff of Cambridge, at which several other high-profile local figures will also be apprehended for various "offences". The suspects will then be taken to Cambridge Crown Court to be sentenced by Judge Gareth Hawkesworth; then taken to an undisclosed location until they have raised sufficient funds for the Ormiston Children and Families Trust to secure bail.

We need your help to obtain Chris's release on bail.  Please go to 
www.justgiving.com/chris-banks-jail 
and make a donation to the Ormiston Children and Families Trust.  If sufficient funds are raised Chris could be released and back with his wife, dog, cats and new Mac Air Book the same day.  


About Ormiston
Ormiston Children & Families Trust is the leading charity for children and young people in the East of England. We provide services to support children and young people from disadvantaged communities who face the very real dangers of social exclusion. Working across six counties and with over 40 projects, Ormiston raises funds for “unpopular” causes. Using vital knowledge about social issues at a grass roots level, we harness the expertise of our professionals to create change where it is really needed. We also run a number of children’s centres across East Anglia.
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Breathe Arts Health Research CIC 

24/11/2012

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We are very proud to have been able to help Yvonne Farquharson, Dido Green and the Executive Team of Guys and St Thomas's Charity to launch a new social enterprise "Breathe".  Breathe researches, develops and provides programmes which use art as therapy, and in August it ran a highly successful, and well publicised "Magic Camp" for children with hemiplegia.  You can see what The Telegraph said about it here.

Yvonne, Breathe's Managing Director, is currently in Australia spreading the word at a major conference and we wish her every success down under.
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Public Servant of the Year - Update

21/11/2012

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Tracy Cannell attended The Guardian Public Servant of the Year Awards 2012 this week to support Jean McVann who had been short-listed for the award.  Jean is Managing Director of Gateway Primary Care, an amazing and highly successful social enterprise based in Rotherham.


Sadly Jean did not take the top prize but both she and Tracy had a fantastic time, and Jean's nomination helped to recognise not just the great work she does every day for her community, but also to highlight the needs of homeless people.  


Thank you to everyone who voted for Jean.
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North Lincolnshire Children's Services - Right to Provide Request

19/11/2012

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We are delighted to have won a competitive tender to develop a business plan to inform a right to provide staff enterprise feasibility study.  We are looking forward to working with colleagues from North Lincolnshire Council over the next few months.
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Public Servant of the Year 2012 Nomination - Jean McVann

26/09/2012

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Vote for Jean

We are delighted that Jean McVann, Managing Director and founder of Gateway Primary Care CIC in Rotherham has been nominated for the Guardian's Public Servant of the Year Award 2012.

Tracy Cannell and Chris Banks are both directors of Gateway.  Jean has been an inspiration to us and to her team, and a champion for disadvantaged and hard to reach groups in Rotherham.  You can find out why she deserves this nomination if you read her story by clicking here: The Guardian Public Services Awards 2012

If you are as moved by what Jean does as we are, please vote for her.
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Social Return on Investment Network - PractitionerTraining Events

26/09/2012

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The Social Return on Investment (SROI) Network is running a series of training events for aspiring practitioners

The training course is designed to be taken as 2 days together.  It provides practitioner training to a level suitable for trainees seeking to become accredited practitioners. 

DAY 1 is a practical, step-by-step introduction to the SROI process.  It begins with some theory but the process is best learnt by trying it, so trainees will learn how to develop an impact map – the heart of the SROI process – and explore the processes using an example appropriate to each trainee.

DAY 2 covers, through group exercises and discussion, issues that practitioners will need to demonstrate an understanding of if they wish to become accredited.  Although designed with the assurance process in mind, this course is suitable for anyone wanting more than just an introduction to SROI.  Current issues will be discussed, best practice and techniques shared and examples explored.

Training will be in London, Leeds, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester.  For dates and more information click the link:   http://www.thesroinetwork.org/training/practitioner

For enquiries about availability or bookings please contact Tania Vera-Burgos at the SROI Network on 0151 703 9229, or email: tania.veraburgos@thesroinetwork.org

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Healthwatch Cambridgeshire

08/09/2012

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We are delighted to have been awarded the contract to support the establishment of Healthwatch Cambridgeshire.  Healthwatch Cambridgeshire will be the new local consumer champion for health, public health and social care services.   It will be the local consumer voice for the whole county including, children and young people, working age adults, parents, older people and people with disabilities on health, public health and social care issues. It will also provide a voice for out of area users of health, public health and social care, for example tertiary hospitals and care homes.

More news in due course....
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East Coast Community Healthcare

25/08/2012

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Following the appointment of Jonathan Williams as Director of Quality Assurance at East Coast Community Healthcare (ECCH), the substantive appointments to the Board are now complete and Chris Banks, who is one of ECCH's founding directors is standing down.  Chris said, "Both Tracy and I thoroughly enjoyed supporting the team in Great Yarmouth and Waveney to establish their community services as a flourishing social enterprise.  ECCH is a fantastic organisation with an amazing team of people in it, providing great services day in and out. I wish it every success for the future."
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