Trusts and Foundations

Charitable Trusts, Charitable Foundations, Community Grant Givers.

 

St Loye’s Foundation is a registered charity and therefore welcomes any funding from Grant making Trusts or Foundations towards the work we do.

 

We are predominately a ‘welfare to work’ charity, we help disabled and disadvantaged people into employment. The Foundation was established in 1937 to train injured servicemen returning from the war.  St Loye’s has continued to train anyone with a disability or health condition ever since.   We are also much more than a training facility, we give personal development and support which enables our trainees to lead a fully inclusive life

 

We specialise in helping people who have any kind of physical or mental health condition many people also invariably have other ‘barriers’ to work as well.  We have become a much respected organisation working with those who are the hardest to help and those who are furthest from the labour market.

 

It’s a big task, many people who come to St Loye’s have already been through a number of programmes that didn’t work for them for many reasons, some stay with us for up to a year before they move on into sustainable employment and an independent life.

 

People in need don’t naturally fit into little boxes that describe them, so who do we help? Here are just some descriptions of our client groups:-

 

Both Short and Long-term Unemployed

Physical health condition or Mental health condition

Multiple needs

Over 50’s

NEETS

Ex-Offenders

Lone parents

Carers

Ex-Servicemen/women

Recovering from Addiction

Over 16 years

Live all over England

Live in Devon

Live in Exeter

Live all over Wales

From Inner-cities

From Rural areas

People in Poverty

 

What do we do? – We run person-centred, case-managed services so that each person will follow their own journey as we call it.

But what do we offer? Training and development to ensure people are sufficiently skilled to gain and sustain employment.

 

Internal vocational courses run by our tutors come under these categories.

Business Skills

Office Procedures

Customer Relations

PC Support and Repair

Computer-aided Design

Portable Appliance Testing

Catering

Health and Social Care

Land and Horticulture

External vocational courses run by organisations we have agreements with.

Numeracy and Literacy

Fork-lift driver training

Driver training

HGV

Secretarial skills

Plumbing

 

 

 

Personal Development Training Modules – for example

Communication skills

Confidence Building

Self Esteem

Anxiety and stress

Well-being

Food & Exercise

Body Language

Presentation

Team-work

Coping with change

Goal setting/achieving

Positive thinking

Independent Living Skills – for example

Nutrition and Cooking

Travelling alone

Time keeping

Laundry

Financial Literacy

Banking and Bills

Housekeeping

Dressing appropriately

Shopping

Employability – for example

Researching jobs

Making a CV

Application Letters

Interview techniques

Keeping a job

Telephone techniques

Role play

Discussions

Practical steps

 

The value of St Loye’s Foundation is cannot always be attributed to any one of the above activities, it is usually a combination of many activities,  but it always embodies the very ethos of St Loye’s Foundation.

 

As with many organisations, St Loye’s has a “feel” to it which can be hard to define, but is vital to the core of our work.  We pride ourselves on our person-centred approach, treating every person as unique and addressing their own specific set of requirements and needs, whilst ensuring a realistic employment goal. We have created a special place of very caring and capable people where people can develop and grow.

 

Some of our clients are residential, staying at our new accommodation at Hope Court, others choose to train within their own home or travel to work areas to enable them to continue their home life, however they still have the special St Loye’s support from our staff. The ones that do stay, go home every weekend to their families but Monday to Friday they have a supportive and encouraging ‘home’ at St Loye’s, too.

 

We would welcome your donation to our cause, we can spend as much as you could give us and each penny would be well-spent.

 

We also value EVERY GIFT  and whatever you give is very welcome and will make a difference to the thousand or more people we help each year.

 

Your gift is a lasting one, it could help just one person get a job and keep it. It could help them learn a trade; buy a bike to get there, some tools they may need. You could change their life, their family’s life and put them in their own place in society, not outside of it. And even if over time their job ends, you will have helped to give them the knowledge, skills and confidence to get another one – you will have changed their life.

 

Here are some examples of the things we always need funds for:

 

1. Seeds and tools for the gardening, landscaping and horticulture department.

 

2. Uniforms, work-wear or boots necessary for jobs.

 

3. Transport – minibus, bus, train tickets, bicycles or mopeds, mobility aids.

 

4. ICT equipment for training plus laptops for clients use away from St Loye’s

 

5. Days out, sports, trips, Christmas party for our clients.

 

6. Kitchen equipment and other needs for residential accommodation

 

7. Rural Basic skills Programme we want to instigate in Devon

 

8. Special Programme to support people with Autism into work (currently 6%)

 

9. To set up new businesses for clients to be self-employed

 

10. Salaries and core costs as ever!

 

FOR ALL ENQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT ‘FUNDRAISING’:-

DIRECT TEL. 01392 286259 or EMAIL fundraising@stloyes.ac.uk

You are more than welcome to visit any of our sites and see our work, Please contact us on the above phone number to arrange a visit.