About Us
MFactor is part of Vine Social Enterprises (VSE) the Trading arm of the Vine Trust Group.
The Vision is to be a national leading edge social enterprise that works with large companies and governments, to create a society where every young person can work without impediment.
Registered Office
The Vine Trust Walsall
33 Lower Hall Lane, Walsall
West Midlands, WS1 1RR
Telephone: 01922 621951
Fax: 01922 621984
E-mail: enquiries@thevinetrust.co.uk
Web: www.thevinetrust.co.uk
The Vine Trust Walsall
Company No. 4370289
Charity No. 1093838
Who are we?
History
The VSE Board
The Executive Team
What we do
Our Mission
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Welcome to The Vine Trust Group - The Present and the Future
Who are we?
With foundations set firmly within the Christian Faith, The Vine Trust Group is best described as a Community Development Trust that is actively engaged in economic, environmental and social regeneration. The organisation is structured to run an inclusive mix of services and facilities, which respond to the needs of the communities in which we serve, with the Christian Ethos as the cornerstone behind all activity.
We are actively involved in partnerships and alliances with the community, voluntary, private and public sectors. As a development trust we occupy the space where the business, public, community and voluntary sectors meet.
There are three distinct subsidiaries within The Vine Trust Group that enables the group to carry out its mission
The Vine Social Enterprises
The Vine Education Trust
The Vine Access Centre |
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Vine Social Enterprises
We are actively involved in partnerships and alliances with the community, voluntary, private and public sectors. As a development trust we occupy the space where the business, public, community and voluntary sectors meet.
Vine Social Enterprises will achieve its vision by:
Delivering excellence of work related learning, work placement and training in a variety of commercial disciplines leading to employment for young people.
Key Drivers
Employability
Provide a solution to the employability of local 'hard to employ' young people.
Provide an exemplar model to challenge other potential employers' negative perceptions of the young people.
Positive Activities for Young People
The scheme keeps 'problematic' young people off the street, and provides a means of engaging the young people in constructive activities, thereby keeping them away from criminal behaviour.
The positive promotion of this scheme could help change the negative perception of the young people, potentially having the effect of reducing the fear of crime.
Corporate Social Responsibility
The service offers commercial business an alternative way to demonstrate its corporate social responsibility, by sustaining its social aims through financial sub-contract. |
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The Vine Education Trust
The Vine Education Trust aims to be an exemplar in an education system where young people outside traditional school can reach their full academic and vocational potential.
The Trust will achieve its mission by:
Promoting a learning culture via the development of a wide range of learning opportunities and training programmes, which will equip young people with confidence, aspirations, skills and the qualification required to achieve their goals and to sustain employment
Key Drivers
Re-Engagement and Progression
Addressing the wide spread disengagement from traditional schooling which has resulted in an unacceptable number of students either dropping out of school or failing to attend regularly.
A student centred approach that will support each individual student to fulfil their potential within a personalised, yet holistic and integrated learning programme.
Innovative Approach to the Learning and Teaching Experience
Developing the skills and qualifications students need to succeed.
Giving young people a first-hand insight into the working world.
Developing non traditional facilities conducive to individual success. |
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The Vine Access Centre
The aim is that every young person in its sphere of influence will be able to make informed decisions for work, training, lifestyle and faith.
Its vision is cultivating and developing a social, spiritual and recreational network, using the mediums of:
Positive Activities for Young People
Endeavouring to keep ?problematic? young people off the street and providing a means of engaging the young people in constructive activities, thereby keeping them away from criminal behaviour.
Positively promoting young people in order to change the negative perception of the young with the aim of reducing fear of youth crime.
Specialist Guidance
Recognising that young people need support in making informed decisions for life, including choices for work, training, lifestyles and faith. |
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History
The Vine Trust has been in operation since 1989, emerging as a direct result of the farsighted vision of local churches. The aim was to implement a system where others had failed, to create an environment in support of the youth of Walsall who were increasingly seen as a burden to society in general.
The project began with the purchase of the notorious Vine Inn Public House on the outskirts of Walsall Town Centre, which had stood derelict for a number of years following a chequered history involving drugs and prostitution.
The facility was transformed to become a positive base for young people with the purpose of working with the 'hardest to reach young people' including: non-attendees at school, excluded pupils and young people on the edge of the drugs culture, to name but a few. The overall aim was to help young people improve their circumstances and move them into a more fulfilling way of life through encouragement and support. After miraculously raising the funds to begin this epic journey 'The Vine Trust' was born.
The location and the look of 'The Vine pub' was both unique and innovative and it has proven to be conducive in attracting 'hard to reach' young people since it began and has established itself as an effective and non-threatening venue for education, work and leisure activities. |
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The Group Board
The Board of Management has overall strategic control of The Vine Trust Group. In order to ensure effective control, the Board has delegated control of policy implementation and performance monitoring to other Committees of the Board and the Board members of our subsidiaries.
The Board and Committees operate in an open and accountable way. We embrace the fundamental need to set high standards of conduct and probity and this is embedded within the Code of Conduct for Members and Staff. In order to ensure that Accord maintains a high level of governance, we have a Governance Committee consisting of staff and Board/Committee members, which meets on a regular basis to monitor and further improve our governance.
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The Vine Social Enterprises Board
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Mr Kevin Davis
Kevin is the Group Chief Executive Officer and has been with The Vine Trust since 1997. In that time he has overseen a large amount of the change which has resulted in a large increase in staff, scope of activities and turnover. Kevin has managed large capital and revenue projects ranging from Equal, ERDF and ESF.
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Mr Richard Jolly
The part time Deputy CEO for The Vine Trust since February 2005 and also works part-time with K2 Consultancy / RLB CM as an Associate.
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The Group Executive Team
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Vacant
Head of Social Enterprise
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Gary Watson
Deputy Head of Social Enterprise
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