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Personalisation - Financial Best Practice

10am-1pm, Wednesday 2 February at Bradford CVS, 19/25 Sunbridge Road, Bradford BD1 2AY

The workshop will give a brief overview of how people can access individual accounts in Bradford before exploring some of the key issues that organisations need to consider such as:

• systems that you will need to have in place for recording sales to a number of individual customers
• potential cash flow issues related to individual accounts
• specific personalisation-related issues – such as how/whether to contract with individuals, and whether you can charge in advance for services
• issues related to financial management, and management of any bad debt.

The workshop will be practical and interactive, and will be of use to any third sector organisation in Bradford that is actively considering delivery of services to people through personalisation.

The trainer is West Yorkshire Community Accounting Service.

For more information visit http://www.bradfordvcspp.org.uk/news-events

To book a place visit http://personalisationfinancialbestpractice.eventbrite.com/

Creative Support Planning Workshop

10am-1pm, Tuesday 8 February, Thornbury Centre, Leeds Old Road, Bradford BD3 8JX

Participants will work together to consider some real, anonymised examples of people in Bradford who have been through the social care assessment process so that they could be offered an individual account.

The workshop will consider the outcomes that they said they’d like to achieve (in terms of independence, social interaction etc.) and see how much money they were allocated. Small groups will work together to consider creative ways that they could achieve their outcomes, whilst staying within budget. They will then compare their ideas with what they actually received – and discuss any issues that this raises.

For more information visit http://www.bradfordvcspp.org.uk/news-events

To book a place visit http://creativesupportplanning2.eventbrite.com/

Sell Your Services to Social Workers

11am-1pm, Thursday 10 February, Mabel Booth Room, Bradford CVS, 19/25 Sunbridge Road, Bradford BD1 2AY

10.30am-12.30pm, Tuesday 22 February, Little House, Market Street, Bingley BD16 2HP

11.30am-1.30pm, Thursday 31 March, Central Hall, Alice Street, Keighley BD21 3JD

The Health Partnership Project is working in partnership with BMDC Adult Services to give you the chance to meet your local social workers. Come along to one of three free events and:

• promote your group's activities
• raise awareness of what's available for people to buy from you with their personal budget
• make contacts and sell your services
• update your contact details on the personalisation services directory.

Tea and coffee will be provided, please feel free to bring your own lunch.

For more information see the attached document.

Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment!

To book a place contact Debbie Atkinson on (01274) 781222 or email admin@sbvs.org.uk

Pricing and Personalisation

10am-1pm, Tuesday 15 February at Bradford Resource Centre, 17-21 Chapel Street, Little Germany, Bradford BD1 5DT

The workshop will be practical and interactive and cover the following:

• a brief overview of the process people go through to access an individual account
• how to decide what to charge for your service
• how do you work out what to charge in order to sustain your service?
• how can you tell whether your charge is something that customers will be happy to pay?

For more information visit http://www.bradfordvcspp.org.uk/news-events

To book a place visit http://pricingandpersonalisation.eventbrite.com/

Getting Ready for Personalisation

10am-12pm, Wednesday 16 February at Kala Sangam, St Peter's House, 1 Forster Square, Bradford BD1 4TY

Enterprising Bradford, Kickstart and bfunded are hosting a half-day event for smaller providers. At this event you can:

• find out why it's so important to be ready for personalisation
• access a range of free support
• meet staff from support agencies that can help you on a one-to-one basis

This is a chance to get to know a range of professionals who can offer you tailored business planning and development support in the following areas:

• preparing a business or development plan
• marketing and promoting your services
• diversification
• developing new services
• financial planning
• selling your services to the public sector
• tendering and procurement
• organisational change and improvement

For more information see the attached flyer.

To book a place call (01274) 434500 or email commissioninginbox@bradford.gov.uk giving your name, organisation, email address and contact telephone number.

Business Link and Social Enterprise Support Centre events

Business Link is holding a workshop about developing consortia from 1.30pm-4pm on Monday 7 March at Olicana House, 35 Chapel Street, Bradford BD1 5RE

The SESC events are for residential care providers and the workshops are:

• Introduction to social enterprise - 1.30pm-3.30pm, Tuesday 22 February
• Business essentials - 9.30am-11.30am, Monday 28 February
• Sales and marketing on a shostring - 9.30am-11.30am, Tuesday 8 March
• Diversification and resilience - 1.30-3.30pm, Tuesday 15 March

More information on Business Link and SESC events will follow soon.