2005
/ 2006
A striving, healthy and prosperous
community actively contributing to the benefit of society as a whole.
Contents Page
About
Us 3
& 4
Chair’s
Forward 5
Chief
Officer’s Report
6
Core
Services 7
Aims
and Achievement 8
PMF
Performance 05-06 9
Staff
Activities
10,11
& 12
Way
Forward
13
Thanks 14
Appendix
A 15
User
Information 16-19
About Us:
Registered
Office:
Telephone:
01772 889000
E-mail:
pmforum@hotmail.com
Website:
www.pmforum.org.uk
Charity
Number:
1064609
Company
Number:
3054937
Management
Board Members- 2005/2006
Iqbal
Patel
Chair
Fatima
Master
Vice Chair / Secretary
Sabbir
Musa
Treasurer
Faruk
Patel
Arif
Barber
Latifa
Patel
Yasmin
Shakur
Co-opted
Members:
Siraz
Natha
Taalib
Shamsuddin
Shamim
Mahmud
Accountants:
SKM
Chartered Accountant
PMF
Team: 2005-2006
Anis
Faruki
Chief Officer
Shazana
Hussain
Community Development Officer
Mudassar
Iqbal
Learning Development Officer
Shirin
Ghanchi
Admin Officer (resigned October
2005)
Nafisa
Ahmed
Admin. Assistant
Ismail
Sidat
Volunteer Officer
Recipient of following awards:
Best Practice in IAG – 2004 and Best Partnership of the year - 2004
We are holder
of Matrix Quality Standard, which is nationally recognised
accreditation for
Guidance Council Standards for learning and work.
‘PMF seeks to improve the lives and well being of Muslims and the community at large by developing community led solutions fostering understanding and co-operation between communities, advocating culturally sensitive and effective public services’.
Aims
- Empower
women who are at margin of society, by promoting life long learning
initiatives.
- Develop
employability skills of the people seeking employment, through
education and training.
- Encourage
young people’s participation with a view to address issues
related to social disorder, drugs, alcohol abuse and juvenile crime.
- Work
with individuals and groups to develop their potential and capacity in
self-empowerment.
- Enhance
understanding and links with the mosques and encourage their
participation in community development and regeneration initiatives.
- Promote
awareness of environmental issues.
- Improve
health of the community and strive for health equality with special
emphasis on women, children and old people.
Chair’s Forward
It
gives me great pleasure to
present the annual report of PMF for the period 2005-2006.
On
behalf of management
committee, I would like to thank all the staff, volunteers, users,
stakeholders
and the agencies for their positive contribution in making PMF what it
is
today. A pro-active and friendly organisation meeting diverse needs of
the
community. PMF through considerable hard work has evolved into an
effective
‘partner’ organisation, providing a much needed
link with the community and a
platform to reflect the ever changing needs of the community.
The
past year has once again
been a very busy and successful period for PMF. The new location has
seen a
steady increase of service users. It is heartening and encouraging to
the board
members to hear the appreciation from the service users and agencies
for the
work we undertake. I have no hesitation in attributing the credit to
all staff
members for their efforts and commitment.
I
acknowledge the financial
support for our work provided this year by Preston City Council, Sure
Start
Preston East, Awards for All,
Iqbal
Patel
Chairman
Chief
Officer’s Report
This
year has seen PMF continue
to flourish and provide support to increasing and diverse needs of the
community. The move to new premises in September 2005 although hectic
and at
times chaotic has helped in attracting record number of service users.
We
served in excess of 5000 people last year, making it one of the busiest
drop-in
community centres in
We
also saw sharp increase in
people accessing our services for various forms filling and requiring
our
assistance to liase with statutory agencies, utilities and insurance
companies,
banks, solicitors and so on for the issues that affect them.
In
the current climate, it has
never been more important to work in partnership with others. We have
formed
meaningful relationship with Sure Start Preston East and Job Centre
plus
through Preston Employment Partnership. These projects are aimed to
deliver
services from PMF. This would not only help statutory agencies to
enhance their
capacity and reach community members who normally do not access these
services
but would also provide opportunities for both parties to share valuable
expertise
and experience of each other.
One
of the major challenge
which whole of the voluntary sector is facing and PMF is no exception,
is
volatility of funding opportunities. The increasing rigorous criteria
from the
funders under the pretext of ‘better value’ and
‘changing priorities’ puts
additional pressure on the limited resources of an organisation.
The
shrinking resources of UK
on-line and Preston College’s detachment from delivering
learning initiatives based
at community centres under the pretext ‘changing
priorities’, has also severely
affected our capacity to deliver popular community based IT courses and
sustainability of Hamaara Centre. Lack of any core funding and
commitment to
community based youth services agenda from Lancashire County Council
also meant
our inability to deliver professional and effective youth and other
core
activities.
The
high light of the year was
confirmation of Young People’s Fund from Big Lottery. The
three year project
from 2006-2009 will hopefully make significant difference to the lives
of young
people.
We
welcome new board members
and hope that their dedication and commitment would bring valuable
benefits to
the organisation. My personal thanks to Siraz Natha for his continuing
support
and advice.
Anis
Faruki
Core
Services – Last 12 Months
Information,
Advice and Guidance (IAG):
IAG
on employment, education
and training continued to be the core services and also one of the most
popular. This involved help with:
- job
search, CV
building, job application forms, interview techniques, educational and
other
life long learning courses
We
closely liase with Job
centre plus, Connexions, Learning Skills Council, next steps,
Accrington
College, Asian Business Federation, Lancashire County Council etc in
order to
provide these vital services to the community.
Advice
and Guidance Pays:
A
challenging project from next
steps, where we target people who are not in receipt of core benefits,
have
educational background below NVQ level 2 and are unemployed by providing extra help to get them back
on track with job hunting or re-training. This involves one to one
intensive
guidance, help choosing a career, individual assessment and an action
plan.
Connexions were the only other organisation from
PMF
through this project is
proud to be contributing to the government agenda of raising learning
and
employment standards.
PMF
has also been successful in
renewing Matrix Quality Standard, which is nationally recognised
accreditation
for Learning and Work.
Aims
and Achievement
We
are more than half way into
meeting our strategic aims as agreed in the Business Plan 2005-2008. We
are
also proud to achieve what we aimed for in our 2004-2005 Annual Report. Following is what we aimed
for in last year’s
annual report, and how we achieved it.
|
Aims |
How
achieved |
|
Enhancing staff training |
The staff members are constantly updating their
skills through courses and training events. See section staff activities |
|
Constantly reviewing policy developments and
internal procedures |
This piece of work continues with review of
policies related to health & safety, fire safety, sessional
workers, accident reporting, user information, staff performance
monitoring etc |
|
Expansion of capacity building |
ERDF funding has now been extended until March
2007. 10 community groups benefiting from various capacity building
initiatives. |
|
Development of volunteer capacity |
Youth volunteers trained and offering services
in the areas of youth activities. Funding for Youth work level 3 course
secured. |
|
Diversification of services |
New projects undertaken related to environment, mental
health, families and children, employment |
|
Management Review |
Review of management board/members and their
roles is continuing. Article of Association is in process of being
amended. New board members have been recruited through selection
process. 3 board members have resigned due to personal reasons. |
|
Widening Partnership |
Meaningful partnership has been established
with Sure Start and Job Centre plus |
|
Social Cohesion |
Increased participation in multi-agency
inter-faith activities. |
|
Relocation |
Moved to new premises that is more visible and
accessible to the agencies and service users. |
PMF
Performance April 2005 – March 2006
|
Services |
Beneficiaries |
|
Number of people trained and obtaining qualifications |
46 |
|
Number of people benefiting from projects promoting personal and social development |
88 |
|
Number of people given access to new health and sports facilities/opportunities |
224 |
|
Number of people communities provided with capacity building support |
10 |
|
Number of residents accessing employment through targeted advice and training |
58 |
|
Number of disadvantaged groups obtaining jobs |
16 |
|
Number of people signposted/provided one-off advice and referral |
2688 |
|
Number of people assisted with forms filling |
1822 |
|
Number of people assisted to access statutory and voluntary agencies |
410 |
|
Number of agencies supported to deliver initiatives in partnership |
14 |
Mentoring
The project DOSTI (Friendship) has been set up in partnership with Lancashire Access Mentoring Point. The project is proving to be a popular initiative and fills the gap of these much-needed services. PMF staff members have been trained by Lancashire Mentor Point. The project intends to serve people of all ages and background for confidential and one to one Information, Advice and Guidance services including referrals to relevant agencies. Appendix A reflects PMF’s performance against other organisations
Youth
Club
The
youth club at the Hamaara
Centre has been running on ad-hoc basis. This was due to extensive
damage it
suffered due to vandalism. We have now secured 3 years young
people’s fund from
Big Lottery and hope to relaunch the centre from April 2006 with a
dedicated
project administrator.
ERDF
Project – Making the Change
The
capacity building project
due to its success and continuing benefit it is delivering to 10 groups
has
been extended until March 2007. This would provide timely and
appropriate
services which unfortunately could have come to an abrupt end.
Staff
Activities – 2005/2006
Following
are some
of the activities/events staff members participated and attended:
- Chair
of sure start fishwick & St.Mathews
- AGM-Sure
Start Fishwick and St.Mathews
- AGM-Sure
Start
- Trustee
of CVS
- Thematic
working group-Preston Community Network
- Board
Member-ERDF committee
- Preston
Muslim Girl’s School
- Close
working and capacity building of 10 community groups
- Arts and Crafts festival
- Organ
Donation-Muslim Perspective – UCLAN
- Child
Minding Event-LCC
- Phoneix
consultation
- AGM-
Preston Community Network
- AGM-
Naemia academy
- Trip
to
- Deepdale
Steering Group
- The
dialogue magazine
- Adults
Learner’s event – Flag Market
- Summer
School Holiday camp
- Community
Consultation Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- NorthWest
Men’s Network
- Dad’s
Workers
- AvenCentral
- Building
Bridges
- Employment
Action Plan at GHS
- ERDF
Management meetings
- Diversity
Day – Kirkham Prison
- Steering
Group-Lancashire Criminal Justice Board
- Volunteer
Recruitment –
- Holocaust
Memorial day
- Eid
Celebration – PMF
- Every
Child Matters – LCVYS
- Area
Forum meetings
- Men’s
Health – PCT
- Neighbourhood
Renewal-Consultation
- Christmas parties-Sure Start, CVS, YMCA
- Consultation- Children
centre – Longridge
- Social
- Money
Buddies –
- Next
steps for change up event-
- Health
Mela
- Grandparents
Event
- Establishment
of Deepdale Dad’s Group
- Job
Fair- St.Joseph’s Centre
- Learning
Disability Employment Partnership
- Engaging
Ethnic Heritage
- Grants
for Growth
- Preston
Women’s Network meetings
- Active
Sport 4 women
- Women
and Business conference – ABF
- Building
Bridges
- Sport
and Spice
- Sure
Start Netwoking Lunch events
- Community
Sports
- Student
Placement from UCLAN
- Prescap
- Edgehill
College- BME recruitment advice
- Meena
Bazaar
- LCC
Library Services
- Young
Muslim Womens Youth Group
- Community
Celebration day
- Health
Leaders Walk
- Counselling
Conference
- Mental
Health Women’s Focus Group
- Women
Support Group- Police
- LAMP
meetings
- Coffee
mornings
- Inspiring
Women- ABF
- Women
only PACT meetings
- Consultation-
Social Services
- New
Leaf
- Family
Health day
- Women
Fun Day- Mental Health
- First
Aid
- MIDAS
- NVQ4-Advice
and
Guidance
- NVQ3
– Management
Training
- Child
Protection
- Employment
Laws-Peninsula
- Working
with men
- PQASSO
– Quality
Assurance
- Appraisal
Training
- Men’s
health
- Constructive
Dismissal
– CVS
- Communication
Skills
- Project
Management
- Monitoring
and
Evaluation
- Adult
Learner
Support – Level 2
- AQA-
funding finder
- Learn
to Teach
- ECDL
- Health
and Safety
- Mentoring
- Domestic
Violence
- Business
Planning
- Immigration
Training-CAB
In-House Surgeries during 2005/2006
ImmigrationCitizen
Advice
Bureau
Housing
Council
Tax
Counselling
Job
Centre Plus
Way Forward –
2006/2007
The
continuation and
enhancement of Making the Change project.
- Mental
Health
Identification,
consultation and event based project to tackle mental health issues
affecting
BME community
A
project to support
and increase participation of older people
Continuation
of review
of management board/members and their roles.
- Youth
Club
Development
of
innovative and uninterrupted youth activities
- Sustainability
Explore
long term
funding streams for stability and sustainability for next 5 years.
- Widening
Partnership
Develop
meaningful
relationship with Sure Start Preston east and Job Centre plus.
- Quality
Assurance Standard
To
achieve quality
assurance standards from PQASSO and CEMVO
Thanks for your support
Primary
Care Trust
Age
Concern
European
Regional
Fund
Lancashire
Constabulary
LAMP
Asian
Business
Federation
Sure
Start
Sure
Start
Fishwick/St.Mathews
Catherine
Beckett
BME
Pact
CEMVO
Job
Centre
Plus
BCTV
Next
steps
Community
Chest
All
the mosques of
Community
Groups
Mark
Hendrick – MP
City
and
Mayor’s
Office
Volunteers
Appendix
A
Mentee
Claims against Allocation
|
Organisation |
Target
Allocated |
Targets
Met |
|
Action
Mentoring |
5 |
0 |
|
Amity
Befriending |
5 |
0 |
|
|
3 |
0 |
|
|
6 |
6 |
|
HomeStart,
|
17 |
0 |
|
HomeStart,
|
17 |
17 |
|
HomeStart,
Morecambe |
12 |
0 |
|
HomeStart,
|
4 |
0 |
|
|
8 |
0 |
|
|
10 |
10 |
|
Signpost |
4 |
0 |
|
Supporting
Fylde Families |
0 |
0 |
|
Women
Centre, |
4 |
0 |
|
Youth
Action |
8 |
0 |
|
Youthworks |
8 |
0 |