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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£1.2M
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Spending
£1.0M
Public benefits
[What are the direct benefits flowing from your organisation's purposes?] Systematically supporting the process of job creation, training and wider economic opportunity thereby enhancing pathways for people to move out of unemployment into employment, self-employment and further education. Assisting in the retention and enhancement of traditional
skills associated with the city's historical link to textile industries. Removal of urban blight and physical decline, improving the environment, streetscapes and the public realm.Increased awareness of the built heritage and the need for conservation and improved urban design in regeneration.Practical experience through educational visits and work placements. Enhancing civic pride and confidence through improving standards in design, restoration, decoration and street environment. Stimulation of confidence for further investment and attracting footfall to improve urban streets. Supporting and enhancing provision of services to those suffering from the material and psychological consequences of poverty, including improving mental health, treating addiction, suicide prevention, personal counselling and provision of food, clothing and fuel. Easing the distress of homelessness. Increased numbers of affordable refurbished buildings An improved mix of buildings, creating more diverse footfall. [How can the benefits identified above be demonstrated?] By the number of charitable organisations supported and services they deliver. By the number of premises provided for job creation, training and accommodation. By the number of people housed. By the amount invested, in cash and in-kind, in the pursuit of the relief of poverty. By the numbers of individuals in receipt of training support in the fashion and textile sector By the number of training organisations supported. By the number of buildings recovered and mix of premises now in use. By the improved physical fabric of buildings and streetscapes, additional and improved public realm spaces and increased footfall. By improved civic pride [Is there any harm arising from any of the purposes?] The Trust’s Board, Sub-Committees and Executive ensure, through appropriate scrutiny and due diligence, that no harm arises from the delivery of its objects. [Who are the charity's beneficiaries?] The Trust operates in an area of high embedded unemployment, high levels of economic inactivity and poverty. The beneficiaries therefore are individuals facing poverty and its consequences, those in need of employment and the relief of distress associated with unemployment, homelessness and other forms of poverty. Those charities dedicated to helping to create a meaningful impact on the causes of poverty and its consequences, and their beneficiaries. Those not-for-profit organisations dedicated to delivering training. The general public, citizens of and visitors to the city. [Is there any private benefit flowing from any of the purposes? Is it incidental and necessary?] In the delivery of our aims, e.g. creating opportunities for employment, there will inevitably be some private benefit. The Trust’s Board and Sub-Committees and Executive exercise appropriate scrutiny to ensure that any private benefit that arises is incidental to and necessary for the fulfilment of its objects. There will be private benefit in the attaining of educational awards by participants but this is incidental and necessary to the process of creating access to opportunities.There may be increased trade and tourism from regeneration projects but this is an incidental benefit to the arrest of urban decline and improvements in the streetscapes.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
The Trust, through its urban regeneration and social enterprise activities, acquires, restores and maintains buildings so that premises are created and income generated to address the physical, economic and social challenges associated with the prevention and relief of poverty. These actions include bringing non-productive buildings into use,
thereby helping to create jobs and generating income to sustain re-investment, creating training premises, creating affordable housing, creating free or subsidised premises to charities in the field of poverty action. We also promote excellence in urban design, encouraging this approach in local and regional government plans and promote public events to encourage the process of direct and indirect investment. The Trust supports training through (a) its in-house training unit, the Fashion & Textile Design Centre, which develops and delivers short, medium and long-term training programmes in the sector. The unit also provides incubator space for trainees to develop their business and technical skills and (b) by providing free or rent subsidised facilities for other not-for-profit organisations engaged in the provision of training and education across all age groups. Additionally, the Trust provides work placements directly and in association with its tenants, funds an employer-school placement organisation and delivers seminars and educational workshops on heritage related construction skills.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
- The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
- Other charitable purposes
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- General public
- Homelessness
- Unemployed/low income
How the charity works
- Urban development
