Transforming community
servicesDave Dawes
Entreprenurses CICwww.entreprenurses.net/
righttorequest
Characteristics•Values not structures
•Trading for social good
•Profit-making organisations
Examples
•Sandwell Community Caring Trust
•Kath Locke Centre
•Central Surrey Health
•Salford Health Matters
•CHAP
You can’t force someone to be an
entrepreneur
Right to Request
What is it?•Route for PCT staff to set up
a social enterprise
•NHS Indemnity through CNST
•Membership of NHS Pension Scheme
•3 year contract
Pensions•Existing staff can stay in NHS Pension
Scheme
•As long as they work on NHS contracts
•Excludes injury benefit
•Excludes premature retirement
•Excludes redundancy
Commercial insurance
The private The private sector recruits sector recruits without NHS without NHS
pensionspensions
To remain in the Pension Scheme, you
must be:•Company limited by Guarantee
•CIC limited by Guarantee
•CIC limited by Shares
•Industrial Provident Society (Co-op)
•Industrial Provident Society (BenCom)
You can make any structure work
Social enterprise survival rates
The importance of cashflow
Working capital
•Overdrafts (4 - 6 weeks)
•Managing supply chain
•Unexpected expenditure
Personal Personal guaranteesguarantees
Prepare for competition
DiversificationNew services to existing customers
ExpansionExisting services to new customers
InnovationNew services to new customers
NHS NHS MonopsonyMonopsony
New income New income streamsstreams
Stability
Contract models
Block contracts
Individual budgets
Sandwell Community
37 per year
0.3 per year
£652 per week
£328 per week
Absence Costs
Copy theCopy the NHS NHS
Staff Morale
Would they Would they vote for vote for
you?you?
The last ever reorganisation?
Limbix vs Cortex
Dave DawesEntreprenurses CICwww.entreprenurses.net
[email protected] 567573
www.entreprenurses.net/righttorequest