current work

Stockport Borough Council

Community Catalysts is working with Stockport Borough Council on an exciting micro markets project. A Micro Markets Coordinator started in post in October 2010 with the first task of identifying and mapping out the current level of micro provision in Stockport and to understand the local landscape. The Coordinator will go onto work with new and existing organisations to help develop a diverse range of local services for people to purchase with their personal budgets or own funds.

MacIntyre

Community Catalysts has worked with a hand-picked team of staff to unlock innovation and stimulate the development of new and entrepreneurial services. MacIntryre have committed to takin gthe best ideas through to launch, using a dragons den approach to test ideas and pick those with most potential.

North Yorkshire County Council

Community Catalysts is working with a small number of council-managed enterprises to establish the best way to enable those services to develop and thrive.

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

Community Catalysts is working in partnership with DMBC and has appointed Lorna Reid as a Micro Service Co-ordinator to encourage the growth of existing and emerging smaller providers. The project aims to offer local and flexible support for people who need care and support and their carers, including people with a learning disability leaving day centres.

Click here for the Dudley year one report on the project carried out at Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

Ruskin Mill Educational Trust

Work to establish three new Shared Lives Schemes as a way of providing college students and others with accommodation and support in a community based family-type setting within a appropriate regulatory framework .

Telford and Wrekin Council

Taking forward the Putting People First agenda CC is providing support to recruit, induct and mentor a Micro Services Coordinator to offer current and potential care providers the information, advice and help that they need in order to set up a small enterprise or adapt a current service to meet new local requirements as well as sign-posting people to other local sources of support and advice.

Improvement and Efficiency South East (IESE)

IESE recently published the results of a piece of research which demonstrates the high quality and personalised nature of Shared Lives arrangements and that the total cost of a Shared Lives arrangement is significantly less that the cost of other types of support service. They are now working with Community Catalysts to offer a series of master classes aimed commissioners and Shared Lives Schemes to enable them to develop and extend their Shared Lives service.

Wokingham Borough Council

Working with Community Catalysts to encourage the emergence of new, high quality micro social care enterprises. Seen as an opportunity by the Council to stimulate the local economy at the same time as helping vulnerable people in the borough choose from a greater range of services

National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)

Working in partnership with Community Catalysts to plan and deliver support and training to third sector organisations in response to the personalisation agenda

Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council (OMBC)

Funded by the DH Community Catalysts is working with OMBC. Wendi Bennett is employed by Community Catalysts, is based in Oldham as a Micro Services Coordinator and is working with micro entrepreneurs who themselves need support and services and who wish to use their personal knowledge and expertise set up micro social care, support and health enterprises

East Midlands Joint Improvement Partnership

Working with Community Catalysts on a regional project with a focus on the development of micro markets. This will include the establishment of micro provider co-ordinators posts in each locality taking part in the project, exploration of cost effective options to meet specific needs (such as supporting people with learning disabilities and mental ill-health into employment and settled accommodation), as well as a quality marking system proportionate and appropriate for small providers. Seven councils are engaged in this project and they include:

Nottingham City Council

Click here for a full Nottingham City article on the project carried out at Nottingham City.

Lincolnshire Council

Derby City Council

Leicester City Council

Derbyshire Council

Leicestershire County Council

Nottinghamshire County Council

Nottinghamshire is a large county that wants to encourage and stimulate small local care and support services such as micro providers to meet the needs of people in their local communities. Working in partnership with Community Catalysts who have appointed Rebecca Stanley as a Micro Services Coordinator. The project will encompass both existing and new micro enterprise and will focus particularly on gaps in services in rural areas and for some hard-to-reach groups