2009/10 IMPACT REPORT OUR MEMBERS ARE Asthma UK N.Ireland Connswater Homes Limited HIV Support Centre Playboard Ulster Wildlife Trust CHIEF OFFicERS OF Autism Initiatives Contact a Family NI Home Start NI Praxis Care Group Upper Springfield THE FOLLOWING Autism NI Contact Youth Counselling Housing Rights Service Prison Fellowship NI Ltd Development Limited ORGANISatiONS: Avec Solutions Services Include Youth Public Achievement Victim Support Northern Ireland Aware Defeat Depression Co-operation Ireland LASI Quaker Service Voice of Young People in Care Access To Benefits (A2B) BAAF Northern Ireland Co-ownership Housing Law Centre NI REACT Voluntary Arts Ireland ACET in Ireland Ballynafeigh Community Association Leonard Cheshire Reconnect Voluntary Service Bureau ACEVO Development Association Council for the Homeless (NI) Lifestart Foundation NI RELATE Northern Ireland Volunteer Now Action Cancer Barnardos NI Cruse Bereavement Care Lloyds TSB Foundation for NI Reminiscience Network War on Want (NI) Ltd Action for Children Beat Initiative Cúnamh ICT M.U.S.T. Hostel Northern Ireland West Belfast Training Services Northern Ireland Belfast & Lisburn Womens Aid DePaul Ireland Macmillan Cancer Support RNIB Women’s Aid Federation Action Mental Health Belfast Activity Centre Diabetes UK NI Marie Curie Cancer Care RNID (NI) Northern Ireland Adoption Routes (C of I) Belfast Carers’ Centre Disability Action Mediation Northern Ireland ROYAL MENCAP SOCIETY Women’s Resource and Advantage NI Ltd Belfast Community Housing Dry Arch Centre Mill House Royal National Lifeboat Development Agency Advice NI Association Dunlewey Substance Mind Wise Institution Women’s Support Network Age NI Belfast Healthy Cities Advice Centre MS Society SCA (Springfield Charitable Workers’ Educational Age Sector Platform Belfast Unemployed Early Years – the organisation Mulholland Aftercare Services Association) Association (NI) Alzheimer’s Society Resource Centre for young children National Deaf Children’s Society School & Employer Connections Young Enterprise NI ARC Healthy Living Centre Blackie Community Group East Belfast Community NCB NI National School For Social Entrepreneurs Youth Initiatives Ards Development Bureau & Association Development Agency Children’s Bureau Sentinus Youth Link NI Community Network British Red Cross East Belfast Partnership NEA (NI) SHAC Housing Association Youth Works Ark Housing Association Brook Northern Ireland East Down Rural Community New Life Counselliing Shalom Care Arthritis Care NI Bryson Charitable Group Network Newry Women’s Aid Shankill (Lurgan) Community ASSOciatED MEMBERS: ASBAH Bytes Project Edward Street Hostel NI Association for Mental Health Project Ltd Association for Real Change CARDI EGSA NI Cancer Fund for Children Shelter NI Age NI (ARC) Carers Northern Ireland Employers for Childcare NI Centre for Trauma Simon Community NI Association for Coaching Ireland Caring Breaks Ltd Engage With Age and Transformation Skills for Justice Autism Initiatives NI CAUSE for Mental Health Extern Organisation NI Chest Heart & Stroke Social Economy Network Belfast Central Mission Causeway Women’s Aid Extra Care NI Council for Integrated South Belfast Highway to Health Coca-Cola Bottlers (Ulster) Ltd Cedar Foundation Falls Community Council Education Speedwell Trust Corrymeela Community Belfast Centre for Global Education Family Planning Association (NI) NI Federation of Housing Springboard Opportunities Ltd Dancing Leopards Ltd Centre for Health & Well Being FASA – Forum For Action Associations Strabane & District Citizens Down District Council Challenge For Youth On Substance Abuse NI Hospice Care Advice Bureau Front Door Housing Charity Bank Fermanagh Trust NI Institute for the Disabled The Orchardville Society Stepping Stones Chartered Institute of First Housing Aid & NIACRO The Prince’s Trust Tides Training Environmental Health Support Services NICAB The Rainbow Project Belfast Verbal Arts Centre (NI) Ltd First Steps Women’s Centre Children’s Law Centre NICMA – The Childminding The Royal Society for the Fold Housing Association Christian Guidelines Ltd Association Prevention of Accidents CORPORatE MEMBERS: CIH in Northern Ireland Footprints Womens Centre NICVA The Rural College & City of Belfast YMCA Fostering Network NI Northern Ireland Anti-Poverty Derrynoid Centre Anne McMurray Consulting Ltd Colin Glen Trust Foyle Hospice Network The Salvation Army ASITIS Consulting Ltd Committee on the Administration Friends of the Cancer Centre Northern Ireland Scout Council (Divisional HQ) Blu Zebra Ltd. of Justice Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland Union of The Women's Centre Derry Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors Community Conventions GEMS Northern Ireland Limited Supported Employment Threshold Corporate Affairs, BERS Gingerbread NI Tides Training Community Development NOW Project Northern Bank Health Network Girl Guiding Ulster NSPCC Tinylife Forde May Consulting Community Evaluation NI Girls Brigade Northern Ireland NUS-USI Together 4 All Ltd Gilpin Executive Search R M Community Foundation NI Greater Village Open College Network NI Training for Women Network & Development Community Transport Regeneration Trust Opportunity Youth Trauma Recovery Network Influence – Strategic Association Groundwork NI Orana Children and Triangle Housing Association Communications E Concern Worldwide NI Habitat for Humanity Family Centre Trinity Housing Marsh Ltd Confederation of Com. Groups Headway Belfast Parkanaur College Ulidia Housing Association Moore Stephens Chartered of Newry & District Helm Housing PeacePlayers International NI Ulster Cancer Foundation Accountants OU M 05 It is our privilege to present the report on the activities and 05 achievements of CO3 Chief Officers 3rd Sector for 2009/10. In CHaiRPERSON & this year’s report we have focused on the impact of our work, told DiREctOR’S FOREWORD through the experience of five members who, in one way or another, have engaged with CO3 over the past year. These stories of impact are a testament to these five individuals but also to all third sector 08 leaders, who are continuing to provide outstanding leadership in WHO WE ARE incredibly challenging times. A very significant proportion of our community rely solely on the vital lifeline that is the third sector, to be 10 able to live independently at home, benefit from day services or receive OUR ACHIEVEMENTS compassionate hospice in a much more appropriate and effective way at A GLANCE than expensive hospital care. Much of the contribution to Northern Ireland’s arts, sporting, rural and environmental provision is made by 12 third sector organisations. The sector’s leaders are crucial to this work. LEADERSHip During this year, CO3 introduced a programme developed to help members ‘Lead in Difficult Times’, reflecting this difficult context and the skills required to meet these challenges, as well as preserving personal 15 resilience and vital services. Alongside this programme, an Executive 3 CO ’S PUBLIC AFFAIRS Mentoring programme and regular Calls for Help, we have continued & RESEARCH to support strategic partnerships with leaders in other sectors to help create connections and understanding and influence change. 16 SUppORtiNG MEMBERS During this year we began to mark our association’s 25th anniversary, with the Leadership Voyage Conference and the Voyager Awards. The anniversary is an important reminder that chief officers created and 17 shaped their membership association to help create effective leadership StRENGTHENING in this sector. With such strong roots and a clear commitment and & N OUR ORGANISatiON engagement amongst members, we are well positioned to continue FOREWORD to champion and connect third sector leadership during this period of intense challenge. We are a sector that is well used to having to work O 20 in the margins of poor funding. We are a sector that has to deploy BaLANCED ScOREcaRD creativity and resourcefulness in delivering vital services to our users. S We know the coming years will be tough years, and many tough 23 decisions will have to be taken. We want to play a part, together with R’S R’S political leaders, in doing what we can to protect the delivery of services RS T FiNANciaL REPORT to our most vulnerable and communities that are in greatest need. 26 We want to thank our members for their engagement, the Executive CHARitY INFORmatiON Committee and staff of CO3 for their commitment and strategic PE thinking and our funders and sponsors for their support, particularly TO EN in this difficult financial climate. C T Stephen Mathews Majella McCloskey Chairperson Director E ON The body copy in this document CHAIR C has been set in 12pt text. DIR 07 The organisation I lead, Caring Breaks Ltd, a small Belfast based charity, provides regular respite breaks to the carers of adults with a learning disability. This substantial group of carers, most of them parents, some of them nearly 90 years old are in desperate need of support after a lifetime dedicated to caring for their sons and daughters. Caring Breaks alleviates the burden of continuous care felt by many of these carers who are often coping alone, by providing community based leisure and social activities for their sons and daughters. For carers these respite breaks of a few hours each week, gives them the chance to have time for themselves, and it usually represents the most regular break they ever get to enjoy. Caring for someone with a learning disability is like nothing else most people experience, every decision taken must fit in with the needs