Over £2m
of social value against The Angel Centre contract
1788 hours
of activity to help tackle social isolation
1,559 hours
of 1-2-1 mental health support provided
37,500
of Government funded childcare places
Annual Accounts
This was a very different year in terms of how we delivered services and we recovered after the pandemic. However, the resilience and adaptability of the organisation shone through. We found new ways to deliver against contractual targets, reached out to our communities in different ways and delivered new services around the needs brought on by the pandemic.
Responding During a Pandemic
At the end of 2021 we produced a report looking at the work we had done in the Covid-19 pandemic. This report highlights how third sector organisations, embedded within communities are often well placed to quickly mobilise services on the ground.
Examples of this included; Opening a Covid Triage Centre; Setting up hot food catering for frontline NHS staff across the NHS; providing emergency childcare for keyworkers, opening community food clubs and ensuring local people were not social isolated.
Rethinking Residential
In 2022 we led a partnership (now called The Fair Care Alliance) to commission a feasibility study into Residential Childcare in Greater Manchester. This study highlights gaps in delivery and shows how the third sector can make an impact. It also sets out a plan of action. This was the groundwork for our current work in opening residential children’s homes.
Growing Spaces: An Evaluation of the Mental Health Recovery Programme
This is an external report put together by Dr. Michelle Howarth from Salford University in 2017. The report is about our Garden Needs project and how this offers a different non-clinical approach to working with people who have or who are recovering from mental health problems.
The report found that greencare should be utilized and promoted as part of social prescribing programmes as connecting with nature has a significant positive impact on mental health.
Community Impact Report
This report was produced in 2020 and gives a good background, insight and impact summary to all of the different work undertaken at Social adVentures. It includes an outline of our public health delivery model and explanation of green care and social prescribing as well as a summary of our interventions in childcare and our vision for the future.
Here’s a snapshot of some of the Impacts that we deliver every year:
- 746 people helped to connect and socialise again to tackle their own social isolation
- 1000+ healthy interventions and where 1-2-1 nutritionist was employed
- 100 free family forest school sessions
- 5,000+ Hours of volunteering from our fantastic community
- 514kg of plastic waste saved
- 951 exercise participations from Zumba through to yoga
- 30% smoking quit-rate achieved through our free E-Cigarette programme
- 20,000 hours of free support & facility use for other like-minded organisations
- 20% of those who attended skills programmes went back into work
- 2,040kg of food waste saved
Social Prescribing Social Return on Investment Report
This report was produced by Fox Advising in 2012 when Social adVentures was trialing approaches to social prescribing. It looked at the impact of social prescribers working with individuals to refer into community based services which were local to them.
It found that for every £1 spent the net social return on investment was £10.12. The report stated “the project demonstrated a profound impact on the lives of the participants….For a comparatively small initial outlay, considerable benefit was added.”
