Impact

Every year hundreds of vulnerable people's lives are improved with the support and assistance provided by Seaview Project's staff and volunteers.

Directors and Trustee Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2020

AGM 2020-2021 Presentation

Seaview's impact in numbers (between 2018/19)

• Provided support to 1,489 individuals across all of our programmes of service
• Seaview staff had 22,393 engagement contacts with clients across all services
• Provided Wellbeing Centre contact, support and recordable services for 773 people (some of whom attended several times a week), and informal support to many more
• Served an average of 93 different individuals daily at the Wellbeing Centre tea bar
• Served over 6,804 affordable hot, nutritious meals and countless teas, coffees, juices, soups & rolls and desserts
• Gave specific housing related advice and accommodation support on 2,300 occasions
• Outreached 332 rough sleepers verifying their identity, checking on their welfare and inviting them to engage with support
• Provided a 5 month placement for an overseas social care student
• Provided more than 50 people with volunteering, training and work experience opportunities, both for service users and people from the wider community
• Gave help, support and encouragement to people on a wide range of issues including substance misuse, emotional wellbeing/mental health, literacy, relationships, cultural, faith and language needs
• Provided peer support for 121 people who undertook 3,685 recovery based activities through our RADAR project ( gym, choir, running, peer support groups)
• Engaged with 42 people through our Arts project
• Supported 538 Individuals to access medical appointments
• Were involved in averting crisis for individuals on 7,298 occasions
• Made 1,234 contacts with 227 individuals through our street activities work

GSK Impact Award Winner 2018

Seaview are incredibly proud to announce that we are one of 8 national winners of a GSK/Kings Fund Impact Award 2018.
The awards are made to voluntary sector organisations who have had an exceptionally positive impact on the Health and Wellbeing of the communities they serve.

Lisa Weaks, Head of Third Sector at The Kings Fund, said: The Seaview Project does hugely valuable work in supporting its local community and combating health inequalities. Crucially, its work focuseson empowering people through improving confidence and increasing access to services.

In particular, the judges were impressed by how the Seaview Project has a big reach despite being relatively small. It shows an organisation making the best use of its resources and making a real difference to peoples lives. It is a worthy winner of the award.

Annie Whelan, Chief Officer of the Seaview Project, said: We are absolutely thrilled to be a GSK IMPACT award winner. It lets us know that what we have been doing to improve the health and mental health of a very excluded community in our little corner of the country has been recognised and has been measured as important. The awards are well recognised and understood in the sector and beyond, and it is such a boost to receive one. It will also allow us to network and grow, learn from other winners and develop our practice and approach further. We are really looking forward to the opportunity to develop and profile our work on a wider platform.

GSK IMPACT Awards The GSK IMPACT Awards, run in partnership with The Kings Fund, are designed to recognise the outstanding work of community-based health care charities.
The awards are open to charities working in health and wellbeing with an annual income of between £80,000 and £2.5 million that are at least three years old.
The name IMPACT derives from the criteria that winners must have demonstrated in their application submissions: Innovation, Management, Partnership, Achievement, Community Focus and Targeting Need.
For more information visit The Kings fund website

The 2018 winners have been selected by a judging panel of health and charity experts including Sir Philip Hampton, Chair of GSK; Sir Christopher Kelly, Chair of The Kings Fund; Dawn Austwick, Chief Executive of Big Lottery Fund; Gilly Green, formerly Head of UK Grants at Comic Relief; Michelle Mitchell, Chief Executive of MS Society and NHS England board member; and Paul Streets, Chief Executive of the Lloyds Bank Foundation.

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