about the Champions This leaflet has been developed Joyce Ojudun by HCT Group’s Social Enterprise Engineering, Ash Grove Champions. The Champions are Daniel Amato … making a a cross-section of HCT Group staff – TCC, Ash Grove from bus drivers and administrators Grenette Johnson to passenger assistants and Learning Centre, Ash Grove real difference to call centre staff – who have been Neville Cunningham hct group is learning about social enterprise E&HCT/Olympic Park people’s lives as a better way of doing business. Lawrence Humphrey a social enterprise They have been visiting other Hull Dennis Thomas social enterprises across the country, as well as finding our more about LaSCoT Donna Robinson White what HCT Group does, exploring organisations that do social and LaSCoT Arthur Sharman environmental good things as which means well as being successful businesses. depot John Clark Their role is now to spread the word that buses across the Group and beyond Leeds Alternative Travel Alan Dickinson about social enterprise. depot Richard Obodoechina like these … HCT Group Community Transport Haringey 5th floor Shamsul Haque 88 EC1V 9HU Old Street tel Mohammed Usman 020 7275 2400 CT Plus, Ash Grove fax 020 7608 8969 Ahmed Ali e-mail CT Plus, Ash Grove [email protected] Joanne Hole HCT Group is a company registered in CT Plus, Ash Grove England and Wales. Company number 1747483. Sarah Shine Registered charity number 1091318. VAT number 805311274. Our registered CT Plus, Ash Grove and main correspondence address is: Albertha Allick Ash Grove Bus Depot, Mare Street, London E8 4RH Photography: © Mark Bourdillon, © Jonathan Cole Low Hall depot, Waltham Forest and www.firstladyphotography.com Vivien Wright Design: David Shaw and associates Kensington and Chelsea depot Printer: Blackmore Ltd, Shaftesbury, Dorset © HCT Group 2011. All rights reserved in 2010 we put the money we made back into communities by providing:

what is a not all bus companies social enterprise? are the same 93,696 passenger journeys Social enterprise is a new way HCT Group is a social enterprise. of doing business that puts We earn our money by delivering for community groups people and the planet first. transport contracts won in the Social enterprises exist to make marketplace, delivering over a difference to the communities 12 million passenger trips on our where they work. They get their buses every year. We then reinvest 163,240 money through trade, just like a the money we make back into the passenger trips communities where it was earned. normal business, but the money for people with they make is reinvested back into the communities where it is earned. mobility difficulties or Social enterprises don’t have we make a real difference shareholders and can’t sell out to big business, so they can focus on by providing: making their communities ppSubsidised for 392 … help to pay for better places to live and work. community groups and a whole qualifications They often work alongside the range of other services for for people who are community to design the services people who find it hard to get long-term community services they provide, making sure that out and about people’s needs are really met. unemployed ppTraining for people who are like these … what a refreshing change! long-term unemployed, helping www.hctrgoup.org them to get and keep jobs ppJob creation in the areas that need it most. about the Social Enterprise Champions This leaflet has been developed Joyce Ojudun by HCT Group’s Social Enterprise Engineering, Ash Grove Champions. The Champions are Daniel Amato … making a a cross-section of HCT Group staff – TCC, Ash Grove from bus drivers and administrators Grenette Johnson to passenger assistants and Learning Centre, Ash Grove real difference to call centre staff – who have been Neville Cunningham hct group is learning about social enterprise E&HCT/Olympic Park people’s lives as a better way of doing business. Lawrence Humphrey a social enterprise They have been visiting other Hull Dennis Thomas social enterprises across the country, as well as finding our more about LaSCoT Donna Robinson White what HCT Group does, exploring organisations that do social and LaSCoT Arthur Sharman environmental good things as which means well as being successful businesses. Leeds depot John Clark Their role is now to spread the word that buses across the Group and beyond Leeds Alternative Travel Alan Dickinson about social enterprise. Wakefield depot Richard Obodoechina like these … HCT Group Community Transport Haringey 5th floor Shamsul Haque 88 Old Street London EC1V 9HU Old Street tel Mohammed Usman 020 7275 2400 CT Plus, Ash Grove fax 020 7608 8969 Ahmed Ali e-mail CT Plus, Ash Grove [email protected] Joanne Hole HCT Group is a company registered in CT Plus, Ash Grove England and Wales. Company number 1747483. Sarah Shine Registered charity number 1091318. VAT number 805311274. Our registered CT Plus, Ash Grove and main correspondence address is: Albertha Allick Ash Grove Bus Depot, Mare Street, London E8 4RH Photography: © Mark Bourdillon, © Jonathan Cole Low Hall depot, Waltham Forest and www.firstladyphotography.com Vivien Wright Design: David Shaw and associates Kensington and Chelsea depot Printer: Blackmore Ltd, Shaftesbury, Dorset © HCT Group 2011. All rights reserved in 2010 we put the money we made back into communities by providing:

what is a not all bus companies social enterprise? are the same 93,696 passenger journeys Social enterprise is a new way HCT Group is a social enterprise. of doing business that puts We earn our money by delivering for community groups people and the planet first. transport contracts won in the Social enterprises exist to make marketplace, delivering over a difference to the communities 12 million passenger trips on our where they work. They get their buses every year. We then reinvest 163,240 money through trade, just like a the money we make back into the passenger trips communities where it was earned. normal business, but the money for people with they make is reinvested back into the communities where it is earned. mobility difficulties or disabilities Social enterprises don’t have we make a real difference shareholders and can’t sell out to big business, so they can focus on by providing: making their communities ppSubsidised minibuses for 392 … help to pay for better places to live and work. community groups and a whole qualifications They often work alongside the range of other services for for people who are community to design the services people who find it hard to get long-term community services they provide, making sure that out and about people’s needs are really met. unemployed ppTraining for people who are like these … what a refreshing change! long-term unemployed, helping www.hctrgoup.org them to get and keep jobs ppJob creation in the areas that need it most. about the Social Enterprise Champions This leaflet has been developed Joyce Ojudun by HCT Group’s Social Enterprise Engineering, Ash Grove Champions. The Champions are Daniel Amato … making a a cross-section of HCT Group staff – TCC, Ash Grove from bus drivers and administrators Grenette Johnson to passenger assistants and Learning Centre, Ash Grove real difference to call centre staff – who have been Neville Cunningham hct group is learning about social enterprise E&HCT/Olympic Park people’s lives as a better way of doing business. Lawrence Humphrey a social enterprise They have been visiting other Hull Dennis Thomas social enterprises across the country, as well as finding our more about LaSCoT Donna Robinson White what HCT Group does, exploring organisations that do social and LaSCoT Arthur Sharman environmental good things as which means well as being successful businesses. Leeds depot John Clark Their role is now to spread the word that buses across the Group and beyond Leeds Alternative Travel Alan Dickinson about social enterprise. Wakefield depot Richard Obodoechina like these … HCT Group Community Transport Haringey 5th floor Shamsul Haque 88 Old Street London EC1V 9HU Old Street tel Mohammed Usman 020 7275 2400 CT Plus, Ash Grove fax 020 7608 8969 Ahmed Ali e-mail CT Plus, Ash Grove [email protected] Joanne Hole HCT Group is a company registered in CT Plus, Ash Grove England and Wales. Company number 1747483. Sarah Shine Registered charity number 1091318. VAT number 805311274. Our registered CT Plus, Ash Grove and main correspondence address is: Albertha Allick Ash Grove Bus Depot, Mare Street, London E8 4RH Photography: © Mark Bourdillon, © Jonathan Cole Low Hall depot, Waltham Forest and www.firstladyphotography.com Vivien Wright Design: David Shaw and associates Kensington and Chelsea depot Printer: Blackmore Ltd, Shaftesbury, Dorset © HCT Group 2011. All rights reserved