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Business in the Community:
Monthly briefing - September/October 2004
Monthly briefing - September/October 2004
On Tuesday 28 September, Phil Nunnerley, Deputy Managing Director, Distribution, at Lloyds TSB Group led a group of key Bristol business leaders, on an HRH The Prince of Wales's Seeing is Believing visit to three organisations involved with the homeless agenda in Bristol.
The venues they visited were the Jamaica Street Hostel (run by English Churches Housing Group), Crisis Centre Ministries Wild Goose Coffee Shop and Training Centre and the social enterprise - Aspire's warehouse and office in Barton Hill.
At the Jamaica Street Hostel the business leaders met with support workers and residents to get an understanding of what it means to be homeless in Bristol. Jamaica Street Hostel provides priority access for homeless people within the centre of Bristol and offers shelter and support to many of the most vulnerable people in the city.
From the hostel the group walked over to the Crisis Centre Ministries' Wild Goose Coffee Shop and Training Centre on City Road. The Coffee Shop is where people can come in off the street, receive a hot meal and drink, and find someone to talk with and provide help and advice. The Centre offers a training course called the LITE course, designed to help the homeless and long term unemployed find work.
The final destination of the visit was Aspire, a community enterprise in Barton Hill. Aspire is a not-for-profit company providing full time employment, training and support. The aim is to enable homeless people to gain full time employment and independent living through sustainable social enterprises.
This visit was part of the Seeing is Believing Programme, a national programme of visits organised by Business in the Community, of which The Prince of Wales is President. The aim of the programme is to ensure that responsible business practice is recognised as an integral part of successful business behaviour, and remains so with the next generation of business leaders.
Commenting on the initiative, HRH The Prince of Wales said: "The Seeing is Believing Programme has succeeded in bringing business leaders face to face with people and problems they may never have encountered. Most importantly these visits encourage action, and I believe that they remain one of the most powerful ways, not only of changing business behaviour, but of stimulating new and increased community investment in areas of greatest need."
Business in the Community invites senior business leaders on visits to see for themselves how business can play a role in tackling some of Britain's most pressing social issues in some of the UK's most deprived areas. The visits focus on issues such as under achievement in schools, youth unemployment, homelessness and regeneration of disadvantaged communities.