by Site_Admin | Jul 14, 2017 | News
Dear All
We are delighted to announce that Entrust Care Partnership’s Out and About Volunteer Service has received a generous grant for a further three years funding following a successful funding application to BBC ‘Children in Need’. Well done and thank you, Lynne!
We are so excited about this news and we wanted to take this opportunity to THANK EVERYONE who has supported us, especially our fantastic volunteers – without their support the activities we provide just would not be possible.
With this voluntary help this organisation has, since the start, supported over 500 young people/families and provided over 30 different opportunities. In the last two years and ten months volunteers have given over 3,650 hours of their time to make a difference – and what a difference that is!!
OUR VOLUNTEERS ARE ALL AMAZING! We are looking forward to the next three years, we hope that our team and supporters will be there for what so far has been an amazing journey.
Never forget, Jigsaw
Thank you all …
Selina, Lynne, Emma & Carole x
by Site_Admin | Jul 1, 2017 | News
How delighted were we last night … WE WON at the TouchFM Pride of Warwick District Awards, held at Chesford Grange Hotel, Kenilworth.
Dressed up in our finery, we excitedly met up with the special Sanchia Hansen, who WE had nominated for an award … !
We’re all looking excited and enjoying the evening, having a great meal and catching up with old friends and colleagues … then it’s all about to get a whole lot better! The lights dim, Kirsty’s on stage to host the evening and we’re off … Business Awards first and then the Community Awards, and here’s our category Carer of the Year, we’re thrilled to even have been nominated (second year in a row however!) and then they’re calling our name and we’re up on our feet, amazed and dazed heading for the stage!
Luckily Lynne had a few little words of thanks ready …. great speech, Lynne! And it’s back down to the table where we then heard that old friend Nicola Enoch had won Citizen of the Year for her long-standing group the Ups of Downs – well done Nicola!
Finally the icing on the cake …. our nominee Sanchia Hansen, our lovely 17 year old volunteer with our recent Siblings Group, won a Judges Special Achievement Award for her ongoing contribution of voluntary work with not just us but other great organisations across the area! How delighted does she look here!
So thanks again @102TouchFM for another fabulous Awards evening, supported again through the generosity of Phillips 66 and all the companies and organisations associated with the event …FSB, Cov & Warks Chamber of Commerce, Chesford Grange to name but a few!
Looking forward to next year already … nominations start next Spring!
by Site_Admin | Mar 28, 2017 | Testimonials
Many members of the Warwickshire Parent & Carer Forum have known the Director and founder member (Lynne Barton) of Entrust Care Partnership C.I.C. since 2005 when she established a Parent and Carer Forum.
The purpose of this group was to ensure there was a focus on the views of families caring for children or young people with a disability and that their aspirations were considered as new and existing services were provided by the Local Authority.
She further facilitated the setting up of a thriving Parent and Carer Steering Group to mirror the Senior Leadership Team within disability services.
At times of challenge she could be relied upon to act with integrity and is always open and honest regarding the influence families can have. The pride all committee members took in undertaking the role and the achievements attained by the Steering Group, is testament to, in no small part to the esteem in which she was held.
She has over many years gained the respect of significant numbers of families across the County. She demonstrates an understanding of family issues and this has been evident in the times we have worked together. She is clearly passionate in wanting to deliver services which are valued by families.
I personally worked alongside her and others to develop the Aiming High Programme, the online assessment for the personalisation agenda, the information module and the market place. During the many months of meetings I felt I was listened to and that I was a valuable member of the team, reflecting her leadership skills.
Warwickshire Parent & Carer Form will continue to act in an advisory capacity to the organisation helping develop services to meet need.
We are pleased to provide this testimonial and feel that Entrust Care Partnership will develop, in time, to become an enterprise which families will be able to approach with confidence and trust.
Ruth Walwyn
On behalf of Warwickshire Parent & Carer Forum
by Site_Admin | Jan 14, 2015 | Testimonials
I have known the Director and founder member (Lynne Barton) of Entrust Care Partnership C.I.C. for nine years both in the capacity of a working colleague for Warwickshire County Council and as a vital partner to the South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust.
I was part of the recruitment process when Lynne was appointed; she was the first choice of all involved and professionally totally lived up to our expectations.
She had the responsibility of leading the establishment of an integrated health, education and social service model of working, for children with disabilities, based on a key working system; this proved to be extremely effective and was emulated by other Authorities. It is testament to the robust foundations she built that this way of engaging with families remains as popular and well respected today.
She worked with me to secure a significant change in the Child Development Service across Warwickshire and colleagues valued her input and expertise in the discussions. She has the skill of being a credible and knowledgeable individual whose contributions resonate with many professional groups and organisations as well as responsive to the aspirations and opinion of parents. She manages to assist colleagues in reaching a compromise by overcoming barriers in a sensitive and intuitive manner.
She led an amazingly successful government initiative which secured new moneys for Warwickshire’s disabled children and young people known as the Aiming High Programme. We regularly met with the appointed independent monitoring body who was consistently impressed with the relevance and quality of services, the extent of parental engagement, creativity, evaluation and financial accountability we were able to demonstrate. Lynne was able to bring together a multi agency team of professionals and parents, create a productive partnership and over a three year period and she successfully chaired the group through the challenges collaborative working can produce.
She is a person of integrity who has gained and retained the respect of families across the County and beyond, ensuring their interests were at the heart of service provision and enabling them to maximise control over their lives. She is able to resolve problems, solving them with imaginative and innovative solutions and so to secure positive outcomes for families and the staff she has managed.
She has over the years taken on new challenges with energy and vigour and I have no doubt that this experience has enabled the not for profit company to be a success.
In a short period of time, less than eighteen months, Lynne’s vision has created a range of new viable services for disabled children and families funded by a variety of sources. These services are rooted in positive partnerships with health colleagues and the wider voluntary and community sector; they provide additional choice and support both the public health agenda and contribute to an integrated, holistic approach to support. By these means, Entrust has already enhanced the quality and diversity of the market.
I look forward to future developments in the growing portfolio of Entrust Care Partnership C.I.C. a new provider who which shares my own social values.
Jane Williams
Head of Children, Young People and Family Services
