ymb meeting 22/11/13 anni broadhead support network ceo

YMB meeting22/11/13

Anni BroadheadSupport Network CEO

We are your charity

• Advice & financial support charity for the IMechE• Only help IMechE members and ‘dependants’• Relief & prevention poverty, includes ‘wellbeing’• We listen to problems• We give advice• We help people get jobs• We give/lend people money • We put people on the right track• PRIORITISE MEMBERS OF WORKING AGE

We are your charity

• Advice & financial support charity for the IMechE• Only help IMechE members and ‘dependants’• Relief & prevention poverty, includes ‘wellbeing’• We listen to problems• We give advice• We help people get jobs• We give/lend people money • We put people on the right track• PRIORITISE MEMBERS OF WORKING AGE

STUDY

EMPLOYMENT

END OF WORKING LIFE

LIVING IN OLDER LIFE

LIVING IN VERY OLD LIFE

CARING FOR PEOPLE LIVING

IN OLDER &VERY OLD LIFE

IMECHE MEMBERPARTNER

DEPENDANT+

(FORMER5 year paying

duration)

OWN & FAMILY

ILLNESS and/or DISABILITY

FAMILY TRANSITION

and /orTROUBLES

LIFE SITUATION(S)LIFE STAGEELIGIBILITY

IMECHE MEMBER

+PARTNER

DEPENDANTS

LIFE SITUATION(S)LIFE STAGEELIGIBILITY

EMPLOYMENT

STUDY

IMECHE MEMBERPARTNER

DEPENDANT

LIFE SITUATION(S)LIFE STAGEELIGIBILITY

FAMILY TRANSITION

and /orTROUBLES

EMPLOYMENT

STUDY

IMECHE MEMBERPARTNER

DEPENDANT

LIFE SITUATION(S)LIFE STAGEELIGIBILITY

FAMILY TRANSITION

and /orTROUBLES

OWN & FAMILY

ILLNESS and/or DISABILITY

EMPLOYMENT

STUDY

IMECHE MEMBERPARTNER

DEPENDANT

LIFE SITUATION(S)LIFE STAGEELIGIBILITY

CARING FOR PEOPLE LIVING

IN OLDER &VERY OLD LIFE

FAMILY TRANSITION

and /orTROUBLES

OWN & FAMILY

ILLNESS and/or DISABILITY

EMPLOYMENT

STUDY

IMECHE MEMBERPARTNER

DEPENDANT

LIFE SITUATION(S)LIFE STAGEELIGIBILITY

CARING FOR PEOPLE LIVING

IN OLDER &VERY OLD LIFE

FAMILY TRANSITION

and /orTROUBLES

OWN & FAMILY

ILLNESS and/or DISABILITY

EMPLOYMENT

STUDY

Current services

• EMPLOYMENT coaching /CV clinics / back to work• ADVICE re general, legal, debt, budgeting issues• NEW PARENT SUPPORT, Pre-school / New dads • SPECIALIST HELP: autism, dyslexia, dementia, care

PRACTICAL

•Breathing space grants: e.g. 3-12 months

•Secured loans: interest free for homeowners

•Undergraduate grants: c.£1050 per academic year

•Apprenticeship grants: c.£500-£1050 per annum

FINANCIAL

•Befriending: to combat isolation and loneliness•Counselling: telephone based; grants for 1:1•Depression: (including post-natal depression)

EMOTIONAL

VOLUNTEERING : Befriender, Visitor, Trustee, engineer to engineer, focus groups...

Where are we?

• Flyer• PE advert (inc. online)

• At back of Engineers’ Data Book• Stand alone website:

www.supportnetwork.org.uk• Increasingly within:

www.imeche.org/about-us/support-network

• info@supportnetwork.org.uk SERVICE LEAFLET in production

Any questions? Any suggestions?