Transcript People and Possibilities-Angela Catley

People and
possibilities
Angela Catley
Community Catalysts
 A Social Enterprise
 Work with with authorities, groups and organisations
 Believe in people and communities
 Help what works
 Challenge what doesn’t work (and find real alternatives)
 Want people to have a real choice of great services and
supports
The vision
 Social Care (Self-directed Support)
(Scotland) Bill
 Support based around people not services
 This is called personalisation
 People can get a personal budget and use it
to buy the care or support they need
 People can take the money or ask someone
else to manage it for them
Simple?
The reality?
Lots of Cs
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Connection
Community
Contribution
Control
Choice
If we get these right we will get
personalisation right
All that knowledge and talent...
People are good at lots of things. What they can do is
sometimes hidden. They often want to contribute to
their community
“People think that
because I’ve got
problems myself I’ve
got nothing to offer!”
What we do
Help people set up small, local
care and support services.
This gives people who need
care or support more choice
in their local community
What we do
We also help people to use what they are
good at and to contribute to their:
• own life
• family
• friends
• community
People and possibilities
Dance Syndrome
DanceSyndrome
• Jen Blackwell dreamt of being a dancer
• Felt her disability was stopping her follow this dream
• Jen and her Mum set up DanceSyndrome in 2009
• Jen got a personal budget and used it to employ her own
staff who help her to run DanceSyndrome
• They run dance groups. They train disabled people to
lead dance groups
• Believe that everyone has the right to follow their
passion – regardless of whether they have a disability or
not
Jen Blackwell
21:12
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Set up in Wigan in 2012 in Wigan
Supports people interested in music
Offer cheap tuition, equipment and facilities
Offer music therapy to people connected to drug
and alcohol rehabilitation groups, and older and
disabled people.
• They also help people form bands and arrange for
them to perform
• Some people have a personal budget and use it to
make music at 21:12
Pulp Friction CIC
 Jessie Carter has a learning disability
 When she left school she wanted to work like
her friends. She didn’t want to go to a day centre
 This would have been very hard for Jessie
 Jessie and her Mum Jill set up Pulp Friction
 Pulp Friction run cycle powered smoothie bar at
community events
 Work with young adults with learning disabilities
to learn new skills and get work.
 Some people use their personal budget to fund
Quotes from Pulp Friction
“I’ve been with Pulp Friction for a year now and
when I first started I wanted to build my confidence
skills up more by serving the customers. I go to local
places and other locations too helping out with the
pedal powered smoothie bar”
“I liked doing Pulp Friction, it was good meeting new
people. It was helpful for me and I got a job”
“ I like doing Pulp Friction, I do cleaning and put the
rubbish in the bin. It has given me more confidence”
Enterprising Minds Changing Lives
Run by Hansel and Community Catalysts
• Supporting people with learning disabilities who
live in North Ayrshire
• Will link with local people in the community that
could help
• We want to find out what people are good at
• We want to help people to take control and to
make a contribution
• We hope that people will make lots of new
connections
Enterprising Minds Changing Lives
The project will help people who want to:
• set up their own business and earn
money. We call these people small
business leaders
• set up an enterprise but don’t earn money.
We call these people entrepreneurial
volunteers
• do something for their community. We call
these people community innovators