Socio Economic Regeneration CIC provide cultural activities that benefit the people from afro Caribbean communities who live, work and or run business in Manchester. The company’s objective is to advance social and economic cohesion and cultural prosperity and the well-being of its community. We develop and implement training and development, cultural projects and activities that leads to employment or self-employment. We work to develop ways to support the long term unemployed to get them closer to the job market or enter self-employment via training, mentoring, coaching and work experience. Our projects support people in isolation, loneliness and or mental health. We run weekly activities, building collaborative alliances that expand opportunities within the cultural and creative industries. We plan poetry events, cultural showcases, and creative learning workshops that encourage critical thinking and personal skills development. We work with the NHS and mental health teams in the areas to provide cultural support.
Highly efficient
Our project management team is made up of both residents and professionals that have a vested interest in improving the quality of life in their neighbourhood. We work with organisations which provides us with professional services in project development and management, quality assurance, and the monitoring and evaluation for project activities.
Our projects are designed and delivered using project management techniques and controls that ensure they are delivered on time, within budget and to the highest quality standards. We develop project plans, project initiation documents, risk management plan, and monitor and evaluate the progress of our projects.
Our Skills
Capacity Building
100%
Management
95%
Workforce Development
99%
Youth Development
95%
Personal Development
90%
Socio-Economic Regeneration CIC use monetised value (using the principles of SROI, Wellbeing Valuation techniques, and Social Value Reporting) with our outcomes, for example, to monetised the values for soft outcomes -increased confidence, self-esteem, motivation, and aspirations as well as the hard outcomes – improved physical and mental health, independent living.
We focused on interventions to reduce the high levels of anti-social behaviour and youth nuisance which has resulted in the social isolation of families. There are significant correlations between older people, fear of crime, social isolation and loneliness which leads to poor physical and mental health.
We use questionnaires to monitor the individuals and groups that accesses our services so that we can get a general picture of the people who engage and identify any gaps in service provision so that we can target the most hard to reach individuals and groups. We use focus group workshops to help us evaluate our services and help shape and improve them as they are taking place.
We also use other methods, tools and techniques for measuring the social, economic, and environmental impact of the services we provide, to ensure we are achieving the outcomes we set out to achieve and the long-term benefits are realised by the stakeholder.