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Post focusing on my Charity Future Housing Solutions ( FHS) We see a developing market in the build to rent (BTR) housing scheme. Ensuring long term security for all, much welcomed. Over the past 8 weeks FHS has reached out to two of the larger providers to discuss the opportunity for Company let’s to organizations like ours that spealise in supported living to allow individuals with a disability to also have long term security and a house of thier own. Our clients on their own would never qualify, some lack capacity, none would meet the income and job threshold set hence why a corporate let is the only mechanism that could be put forward to help these potential clients obtain a home of their own. Unfortunately the two companies we have reached out two do not see the potential. Do any of my many contacts have any suggestions as to who in the BTR market would grab the opportunity to work with the 100s of organizations up and down the country like ours that could take 1,000 of homes a year. Remember people with a learning disability do not like change, current average length of tenancy in our sector is 7 years.! I would welcome any thoughts, suggestions. Kindest Denis CEO Future Housing Solutions.

If you want to retain your staff value them. Show them that you find them important and the things they need to complete their job. Pay them more than a pittance respecting that we don’t just want to pay bills and be done, we want a life too. Learn how to do your own job and learn it inside out so that staff feel secure and confident with their managers. Something has to change in the working world, especially in the charity and health and social care sector. #wecare #careforyourstaff #employment #valuestaff #staffmanagement

FOUNDATION/PHILANTHROPIC COLLEAGUES: There is a HUGE need for box trucks and hired movers. I am part of many many online groups that link people with extra furniture/household supplies with those who need them (new arrivals, re-entry population, those escaping DV, etc). The problem is that no one can pay for moving the things they want to donate to the people who need them. For once, there is a relatively simple solution that just requires some funding. AND, if done correctly, we can create some jobs for people who drive the truck and move the items. Please let me know how I can assist to get this off the ground.

Radical Recruit is a charity with two full time members of staff.   Yes - just two. Everyone else is a volunteer or offers pro-bono support.   One of the two is Alisha Bobb.   Alisha grew up in a loving, stable home, so finding herself homeless was a huge shock to the system. She made the tough, but necessary decision to ‘fly the nest’ at 16 due to a sibling going through a challenging time and making it impossible for her to remain in the family home. Homelessness certainly wasn’t on the agenda when Alisha decided to leave with £3,000 in savings and a full-time job in IKEA whilst studying at college, she was more than set for the future. Then she lost her job. With no available support from family, Alisha lived off her savings and the kindness of friends, but both were to run out. With no means to travel to college every day and finding herself sleeping in a car, Alisha turned to the council for help. After a three-day battle proving she needed support, she was offered a room in an unsafe hostel where, she was told by a member of staff, she’d “need to get violent to survive”. Eventually, she was placed in temporary accommodation but when the ceiling collapsed, she was left with no kitchen. Alisha threw herself into volunteering and getting involved in community projects to help others in dire situations and to give her some time away from another unsafe home. A chance meeting with a lady at a housing association event informed her about Radical Recruit. The team at Radical worked closely with Alisha to help her prepare a CV, learn interview techniques, and build her self-esteem. She found herself applying for jobs that she would’ve previously shied away from. Alisha soon received an offer of employment to work in a medical practice on reception, but Emma Freivogel couldn't ignore her potential, so she bit the bullet and offered her a role at Radical Recruit. Three years on, she's been promoted from Coordinator to Manager and has helped to place over 600 Radicals into employment.   Alisha is a prime example of the amazing things that people can achieve when they’re given the right support.   The work that she does with our Radicals is nothing short of extraordinary.   The Radical Recruit Christmas Crowdfunder is raising funds to get us in a good place so we can continue the work we do into 2024 – the work that Alisha does.   But it’s also to ensure that we have enough in the much-needed Radical Relief Fund to get some of our most vulnerable candidates through the winter months - some of them are the "hidden homeless"; the young people that Alisha describes.   Whether it’s £5 or £10 that you have spare personally, or a larger, corporate charity-allocated pot that you could put to good use, we’d be so incredibly grateful for your support.   Link in the comments to donate – and thanks in advance💛

Many people in Nigeria who supposedly should know about social work are still very unclear about what social workers do 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️ Most people think is all about charity organizations and Child protection 🤧🤧 Well I have come to say it is not so. What is social work ? Social work is a profession that helps society to work better for people and helps them to function better within the society and it is one of the most comprehensive human services occupation which centre it's attention on helping people to improve their social functioning. 🔗🔗 Social work is generally understood to be a helping profession that utilizes qualified personnel who use their knowledge to help people tackle their social problems 😊😊. With these few points of mine I hope I have been able to convince you and not to confuse 🥴🥴 that social work is not all about charity organizations and child protection #Socialwork