BCT Regenesis

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The BCT Regenesis Team is 11 people with a wide range of specialisms and expertise.

The BCT Regenesis Team has particular strengths in:

• Business incubation & enterprise generation
• Community engagement & capacity building
• Social enterprise & social accounting
• The ‘clean & green’ agenda
• The ‘strong & safe’ agenda
• Inclusive children’s & young people’s services
• Community health & well-being
• Asset development
• Economic links between urban & rural communities
• Building consensus & long-term partnership networks
• Dedicated training solutions

Our ‘niche’ proposition is focused around social enterprise development and enterprise generation in disadvantaged areas:

• Social Enterprise development – as part of our work on behalf of the Development Trusts Association, Adventure Capital Fund, Cheshire County, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough, Communities First Wales, Lancashire County Council, Bank of America and many others, we provide dedicated mentoring and tailored support programmes for social enterprises across the UK;

• Enterprise generation in disadvantaged areas - our work in developing and delivering the ‘Firm Start’ neighbourhood business incubator in Chester on behalf of UK Business Incubation is acknowledged as a model of excellence in addressing typical barriers to enterprise creation within disadvantaged communities. Building upon this work, we also manage a major Enterprise Coaching programme on behalf of the North West Development Agency across 10 of the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Cheshire & Warrington.

As a social enterprise and a wholly owned subsidiary of Blacon Community Trust, the proceeds from our work across the UK are dedicated to supporting the Trust in its work with disadvantaged children and young people. The Trust delivers an integrated range of services within Blacon, a relatively disadvantaged community of 18,000 people on the edge of Chester. It does this in response to evidenced community need working with and on behalf of key public agencies responsible for delivering local services. In particular, the Trust works closely with the 6 local schools and the local Children’s Centre in shaping and delivering a wide range of extended services. These services include: childcare (daycare, after school, playscheme, breakfast clubs, crèche); statutory education though an independent school for young people excluded from other mainstream provision; a variety of adult education programmes encompassing personal development, parenting support, offender rehabilitation and NEET groups; and vocational training covering catering, childcare, health & beauty and building trades.

Blacon Community Trust also runs local community centre facilities delivering a range of recreational activities and courses in conjunction with FE and other partner agencies. It leads also on community based volunteering, well-being, recycling, broader capacity building and sustainability programmes as part of strategic partnership effort to regenerate the area over the next decade. This overall programme of extended services is delivered under contract to key partner agencies. Specific services are offered on an affordable basis and subsidized as necessary up to 100% in some cases to ensure accessibility.