Download - Jon Sparkes - Crisis. Ambition & Innovation
Ambition and Innovation – Really
Jon Sparkes
Ambition and innovation
• History
• Bit of doom and gloom
• What happens when we get it right
• How it goes horribly wrong
• What’s it going to take
OrganisationsAt work
• GEC telecoms• Derby TEC• Generics Group AG• Cambridgeshire Council• SCOPE• NHS Cornwall• UNICEF• Crisis
Non Exec
• Greenpeace• Routes to Work • Opportunity Links• CIPD• Pentahact• Speaking Up• SeeAbility• ACEVO
About Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOPKi9oePP4
Doom and gloom
• Austerity and the imperfect storm– Cuts to charities– Cuts to services– Greater demand– More competition between charities
• Public confidence
• Lobbying act
Corporate donations& Gifts in Kind
Donations & gifts from individuals1, including Gift Aid
Legacies
Grants from statutory bodies for funding charities or tocharitable intermediaries
Grants from NationalLottery Distributors
Grants & donations fromcharitable trusts & intermediaries
+2.0%
UK voluntary giving income (£bn)
-12.0%+1.4%
10
15
0
20
5
2013e20082007 2009 201220112006 201020052004
2.43.13.9
3.05.82.6
4.44.5
3.04.9
Compared to:
•Politicians 16%•Journalists 22%•Bankers 31%•Clergy 71%•Doctors 90%
2. Threats to independence of voiceOur verdict: this has worsened every year since we have been monitoring independence.The introduction of the Lobbying Act in 2014 is having a chilling impact on campaigning. We have heard of more ‘gagging clauses’ in public service contracts since our previous report. The Criminal Justice and Courts Bill, despite some welcome amendment, has introduced further restrictions on the ability of NGOs to support individuals who seek to overturn poor government decisions through the courts. Ministers, including the Chancellor, have taken an increasingly hostile public stance toward charity campaigning. We heard first hand from the Trussell Trust and Women’s Aid of attacks on the independence of voice of charities that have sought to raise issues with central and local government, and also of examples of ‘self-censorship.’ The Charity Commission is taking a more ambiguous stance on charity campaigning. However, the sector has been strong in arguing against specific threats.
Yet, charities are needed now more than ever …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmhydKkIq30
SeeAbility
SeeAbility• Formerly Royal School for the Blind, became SeeAbility in 1994
• Provides housing and support services for disabled people who are also blind or sight impaired
• Faces severe and ongoing downward pressure on fee rates from local authorities
Their response?• Sticking to their guns on personalisation
• Extending skills to more and more complex support needs
• Increasing appetite for risk to invest in unique and attractive settings for their services
• Creative use of volunteers to supplement the statutory services
• Fundraising to supplement the statutory service, from £0.5m (2014) to £2m (2017)
• Campaigning for the rights of their service users
• Expanding services to children, and building profile
Christie Jane is a young woman with no sight and is autistic with other sensory needs.
Crisis at Christmas• 4300 guests at 12 centres in London, Newcastle and
Edinburgh (980 overnight)• 9800 volunteers, 133,000 volunteer hours• 1087 advice sessions, 300 eye tests, 769 health checks,
393 dental appointments• 32,260 meals, 895 haircuts!• 60,000 video views on Facebook, 12000 additional
petition signatures, launched new research on support for homeless people, 700 media pieces
• Raised over £8.5m in December
Crisis at Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmJQMtzmLVQ
• Ambition• Fundraising • Integrated• Partnership• Friends• Community• Risk
Result
£5m gross (£3.9m in 40 mins)
£3.5 net
Projects throughout Commonwealth
Baby book for every child born in Scotland
UNICEF & Glasgow 2014
UNICEF & Glasgow 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHNfRDGXtMM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rYn-TFZN0Q
UNICEF & Glasgow 2014
Getting it wrong, putting it rightScope 2005
• £10m deficit and getting worse
• Regulatory closure of services
• Threat of Charity Commission inquiry into governance
• Internal fraud
• Services losing money
• Shops losing money
• Poor employer of disabled people
• Weak alliance with disabled people, no alliance with charities
• Pension deficit £20m
• Bank losing patience
Scope 2010• Sustainable surplus
• 85% of services ‘good’ or ‘excellent’
• Charity Commission case study
• Services full cost recovery
• Shops 10th out of 17
• 23% of staff disabled people
• Capacity-building alliance with disabled people & DIAL UK
• Chair of disability charities consortium
• £5m investment from Futurebuilders
Pulling it together• Being chief executive of a big charity is not
the same as a small one – but let me tell you how I spend my day … sending bids, asking for help, balancing the books, talking to the media, fundraising, listening to the team, convincing the trustees, trying new things …
• Hopefully what I have learned is ….
Lessons• Risk / ambition / find friends / stick to the mission
and values whatever it takes• It can go very badly wrong, and putting it right
means more risk• We are needed, we have a duty to deal with the
constraints - and we can• People in charities can achieve anything• People will help