The Rayne Foundation

Every workshop has a shape. Great session with The Rayne Foundation Chris Falconer and a network of collaborators yesterday exploring the future of where people meet. Cc The RSA (The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce)

Just Announced: The RSA (The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce) #StudentDesignAwards 2024 winners! This year's innovators demonstrated the potential of design to unravel complex problems, explore new possibilities + unlock new ways to meet the needs of people, place and planet. Congratulations to Abhipsha Ray for winning the award in response to the brief we set on enabling and encouraging cultures of care. See the winning and highly commended projects for our brief here: https://lnkd.in/eE--RwB8

We are delighted to have been part of the 100th Student Design Awards and to have set a brief with so many fantastic ideas shared in response. We asked how might we improve the lives of older adults and their carers by encouraging and enabling cultures, and higher standards, of care? More information on the winning and highly commended submissions to follow.

This is the post I've been wanting to make for ages!! At Care City we're really excited to announce that we've received funding from the fantastic The Rayne Foundation to scale up the delivery of Nursing Associates and AHP Assistant Practitioners in care settings across North East London. Working with our partners BHR CEPN we'll be growing experienced care staff into these roles through apprenticeships as well as creating new roles in care for qualified staff. There is enormous unlocked potential within our care workforce to deliver better, more personalised and more holistic healthcare to our residents. These roles will result in healthcare tasks (delegated by our community health colleagues) being delivered to residents by those who know them best, are best places to spot when something isn't quite right and spot it early, and keep them well in the place they call home. We know from years of work in the sector that care staff are more than capable of developing into these roles and delivering this care. We know from countless interviews, focus groups and personal experience that residents want continuity of care and a more personalised approach. We know that our health colleagues are under enormous pressure and need additional capacity to do their vital work. These roles will not only address these issues but also offer much needed opportunities for development and advancement within the care sector. There is an enormous recruitment and retention challenge in the sector substantially driven by a lack of progression opportunities. These roles are also a first step in a potential full degree pathway within the sector to becoming qualified AHPs/nurses. I appreciate I'm getting very excited about something that's going to be incredibly hard work over the next 2 years. These roles represent true health and care integration and for all we talk about it this is still very rare and needs our siloed systems and ways of working to be brought together for the benefit of all our residents (both those receiving care and those delivering it). Care City and BHR CEPN are up for the challenge and will be bringing it to all our partners over the next few months. Special thanks to Jo Barter Paul Olaitan MBA, DProf Hannah Leask for all their support so far

Thank you so much to The Rayne Foundation for their support. With the funding we will develop an Advisory Board made up of 20 care workers as well as recruit 30-40 Care Worker Champions. Read more in their blog but here is a bit more about the project. "The Advisors and Champions will receive training in public speaking, media engagement and access to research and other opportunities. CWC will establish a network of Advisors and Champions that will enable care workers to share regional insights, foster collaboration and learn from each other's experiences. Care workers will be supported to share their stories and insights, enhance their skills and visibility and participate in strategy, decision-making and policy arenas. By building a diverse group of trained and supported Advisors and Champions, CWC will amplify the voice of care workers and support their contribution to collaborative practice and policy solutions. In April, CWC held a roundtable discussion with 10 care workers to start thinking about the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of an Advisory Board and Champion network, providing insight into possible areas of focus for the Advisors and Champions. Job security, sick pay, emotional wellbeing, bereavement support, and training and development opportunities were all highlighted as issues that need attention and solutions built with care workers." #CareSector #Roundtables #LetsTalkAboutCare

We’re delighted that alongside our partners BHR CEPN we have been awarded funding from The Rayne Foundation to create a framework for sustainable co-delivery of nursing and AHP services between care providers and NHS Trusts that can be further scaled up within North East London and replicated across the UK. The project will create Nursing Associates and AHP Assistant Practitioners, employed by care providers but working closely with NHS Trust colleagues who will delegate health interventions to these roles. Our work previously piloting Nursing Associates in non-nursing care homes and AHP Enablement Champions in care homes helped us recognise the inequity in available support for apprenticeship delivery between health and care. Barriers include a lack of adapted commissioning models to create and support enhanced roles within the care setting and a need for available and agreed-upon governance structures to facilitate cross-organisational delegation and supervision that don’t readily exist. Funding from the Rayne Foundation combined with partner contributions will be used to develop a sustainable system of training, governance, and funding to deliver career and development opportunities within the care sector, support integration and improve the experience of people drawing on care. https://lnkd.in/eqaq5bcn NELFT NHS Foundation Trust, East London NHS Foundation Trust

We are delighted to announce our first four grants agreed in response to the Better Careers for Better Care open call. We are very excited to be working with Care City and BHR CEPN in North East London, Leeds Health and Care Academy and Leeds City Council, The Care Workers' Charity, and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) to deliver transformational change programmes within adult social care. Find out more about the funded programmes in this blog from our Programme Development Lead, Holly https://lnkd.in/e-jV5j3a

We learnt a lot from the Better Careers for Better Care open funding call. While we are still developing the shortlisted bids to full application, we wanted to share what we saw across the bids we received and our internal reflections so far on a new way of funding for the Foundation. Read this blog from Susan O'Sullivan, our Head of Grants, to learn more. https://lnkd.in/e4xCVSTf

This is a really important proposition to transform leadership recruitment - and retention - in to the #SocialCare sector! Huge thanks to all those involved and supporting the development of these powerful proposals! Hallmark Foundation The Rayne Foundation Anchor Kent County Council David GraysonVic Rayner OBE Nadra Ahmed CBE DL 💚Prof Martin Green julia cleverdon Alastair Clegg James Darley Jon Wilks

The Rayne Foundation today announces the retirement of the Honourable Robert Rayne who has been its Chairman for the last twenty years. Robbie, as he is known, joined the grantmaking Foundation’s board in 1977 and took over following the death of the founder, his father Max, Lord Rayne. Robbie has championed, inspired and mentored many charities and individuals in the UK, Israel and elsewhere and will continue to do so both personally and in his role as Chairman of the Rayne Trust, a smaller sister charity. Robbie will be succeeded by Jeremy Sandelson, a senior business leader and a former partner at leading international law firm, Clifford Chance. He is a long-standing supporter of the creative arts and has played a major role in the governance of a number of prestigious arts institutions, serving previously on the Boards of the Royal College of Art, London Print Studio and Hampstead Theatre. He is currently Chair and Pro-Chancellor of the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) and a trustee of The Clore Duffield Foundation Jeremy said: ‘I am delighted to have been invited to take forward the great work of the Rayne Foundation which Robbie has done so much to nurture and develop over the last 47 years.  The Foundation plays an essential role in providing much-needed support to some of the UKs most deserving charities.  I am looking forward to working with the excellent staff and trustees to deliver the Foundation’s new strategy which will see it focus on mental health, social care and refugees and to help its charities go beyond grantmaking by aiding collaboration, developing solutions and sharing learning.’    Notes:   The Rayne Foundation is an independent grant-making trust. Our purpose is to effect and promote positive social change through enabling charitable organisations and their leaders to:   1.   realise their potential; 2.   respond to the most challenging needs and neglected issues; 3.   develop and share solutions; and 4.   create a fairer society.  We make grants, convene and enable partnerships, draw out and share learning and seek to effect direct improvements in services and people’s lives.   Please direct any enquiries to:   Crispin Truman, Director ssmith@raynefoundation.org.uk