UNITY ENTERPRISE 

Contribution to the costs of supporting young carers in Girvan and South Carrick over two years

To fund healthy eating cookery workshops, cookery demonstrations and a community meal for members of The Unity Social Kitchen?s Pantry Shop members and the wider community in the Parkhead, Tollcross ....more

To fund healthy eating cookery workshops, cookery demonstrations and a community meal for members of The Unity Social Kitchen?s Pantry Shop members and the wider community in the Parkhead, Tollcross and Shettleston areas of Glasgow.

To fund the supply of 1,440 home-cooked, nutritious meals to those living in food poverty, provided by The Unity Social Kitchen through their local pantry shops in the Parkhead, Tollcross and ....more

To fund the supply of 1,440 home-cooked, nutritious meals to those living in food poverty, provided by The Unity Social Kitchen through their local pantry shops in the Parkhead, Tollcross and Shettleston areas of Glasgow.

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We are seeking funding to provide staff with arrange of training that will increase their skill, knowledge and confidence to undertake this work and to produce high quality, outcome focused ....more

We are seeking funding to provide staff with arrange of training that will increase their skill, knowledge and confidence to undertake this work and to produce high quality, outcome focused plans/statements which accurately reflect the carers needs and how these can be best met. Each Centre has held staff meetings to discuss with staff about what training they would benefit from and we have contacted several training organisations, we also sought the advice of colleagues within the HSCP about the training and training providers that would be most relevant and of the highest quality. From this activity we have identified In Control Scotland as a suitable training provide and would like to work with them to deliver the following 1 day sessions • Understanding self-directed support • Getting to grips with support planning • Support planning • Embedding a personal outcomes approach in practice • That's Life – person centred approaches to risk • Recap and Review session These sessions are relevant to all 3 centres. Individually each Centre's staff teams are quite small and the respective managers think it would be beneficial to undertake the training with peers from other Centres as this would facilitate greater discussion, sharing of practice and encourage network and peer support. The above training is very relevant to the specific duty of adult carer support plans and young carer statements but will also influence the practice of how our staff support carers on a day to day basis. During the staff consultation, they also identified training and support in relation to hosting meetings, information events and support groups. For this reason we would also like to incorporate a session called Crafted Meetings by Tic Toc training. This training provider has recently worked with Dumfries and Galloway Carers Centre and evaluated extremely positively. Finally in addition to the above training we have identified the need to improve the staffs ability and confidence in using information technology. All 3 Centres were part of a consortium application to the first round of CATS funding and were awarded funding for a new management information system. This new system can be accessed from out with the office and this has required the Centres to change their IT operating systems to Microsoft Office 365 and our staff need support to make the most out of this system. Again we have identified a training course delivered by Tic Toc training called, "Time management and putting outlook to work." Some of the stated outcomes of this training include • Full utilisation and value from Office 365 • Less pressure and stress – develop 'e-resilience' • More in control of daily tasks and projects • Handle interruptions better • Distinguish being 'busy' from being 'productive' • More reliable – less procrastination • Less time spent dealing with emails • Time saved due to better prioritisation/focus • Better 'work life balance' • Better team working • More efficient processes After every training session we would ask all staff who attended to complete a training evaluation form. We would then gather the information and discuss with staff. We would have follow up sessions at the 3 month & 6 month stage. Again, fully involving staff and management. We would also discuss with staff at team meetings and at each staff members supervision sessions. We would also have a team catch up specifically to discuss the training and the impact it was having. This would all be documented and assessed by management. We would speak to carers after the training and ask them if the service has improved since staff received this training. We have centre evaluation forms and we would have questions around the training added to it. Carers could then directly let us know the impact of the training after staff have attended.

This group will develop two new strands of work in Glasgow a training kitchen for adults and young people with learning disabilities, and a social kitchen and dining experience for isolated and ....more

This group will develop two new strands of work in Glasgow a training kitchen for adults and young people with learning disabilities, and a social kitchen and dining experience for isolated and vulnerable people.

We are looking to replace dated desk top computer equipment at North and South Ayrshire, have access to tablets for outreach and purchase an SMS package. As we cover a large outreach/rural area we ....more

We are looking to replace dated desk top computer equipment at North and South Ayrshire, have access to tablets for outreach and purchase an SMS package. As we cover a large outreach/rural area we regularly work out of the office and at present do not have tablets that we are able to take with us. Having access to tablets would greatly improve the quality and effectiveness of service we can provide as we would be able to access the information needed when we are with Carers rather than having to return to the office. We would also be able to access and update our new data management system whilst out of the office.

The salary costs of the Spoon Café Service Coordinator and the new training kitchen

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