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Announcement: Time to Shine partnership with The National Lottery Community Fund

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Sefydliad Rank

We are delighted to announce that The Rank Foundation has partnered with The National Lottery Community Fund to co-fund the Time to Shine Leadership Programme over the next three years.

The programme has been running successfully for nine years, and aims to address organisational development gaps within charities, as well as enabling a leader with the right skills mix, talent and work ethic to experience a 12 month Living Wage paid position in a meaningful work role.

The programme aims to bring about sustainable improvements to a charity’s performance, improve employment prospects and build interest in career opportunities in the social sector.

Applications will open in early August here on our website, so please check back here for criteria and more details nearer the time.

Caroline Broadhurst

“Our partnership with the National Lottery Community Fund is a great boost for the Time to Shine Leadership Programme.  We share a passion for bringing new talent and skills into the social sector and future-proofing the role of small and medium-sized charities. This grant will help scale Time to Shine across the U.K.” 

– Caroline Broadhurst, Deputy CEO at The Rank Foundation

Time to Shine Launch 2019

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Last week, 31 brand new Time to Shine Leaders and their managers were at The Midland Hotel in Morecambe for the 2019 launch. The cohort was split into two groups: Group 1 who attended from Monday to Wednesday, and Group 2 who arrived on Wednesday afternoon, leaving on Friday.  The managers joined their respective Time to Shine Leaders a day after their arrival. This meant that each group of leaders had 24 hours to get to know one another, participate in ice-breaker sessions, and engage with their Action Learning Set groups.

There were sessions were run by our very own Caroline Broadhurst and Kai Wooder to introduce the programme, a ‘Leadersmithing’ session was run by the fantastic Eve Poole (whom many of you will have engaged with at our Annual Conference in October 2018), an introduction to Action Learning Sets was delivered by RankNet Leaders Action Group member, and CEO of Blackpool Carers Centre, Michelle Smith, and a ‘Leading through a Growth Mindset’ session was run by Jen Mackay. The groups were engaged, willing and ready to dive in, which was a joy to witness.

The launch was also a fantastic opportunity for new Time to Shine Managers to meet other managers in the same situation, but also to meet with those who had managed a Leader in previous years. There were some guidance sessions for the managers, with time for questions to clear up an uncertainties.

The Rank Foundation team had a wonderful week meeting the new Leaders and their managers, and we are looking forward to watching the leaders, managers, and their respective organisations develop and grow over 2019.

Time to Shine Launch 2018

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In January, The Rank Foundation hosted three residential sessions for the new Time to Shine interns and their managers at the Midland Hotel, Morecambe. There were a number of close-calls with the weather forecast (plenty of snow and rain due!), but everyone arrived safely and appeared to enjoy the residential.

This year, the Time to Shine internship programme has been co-funded by Big Lottery, Garfield Weston Foundation and Jack Petchey Foundation, so the groups were split accordingly to facilitate for this.

We had arranged a tight schedule, packing in lots of activities and sessions for the interns and their managers to participate in together and also separately. This included film making with Vivid Echo for the interns (you can watch these videos below), Nordic Walking with Matt Gibbs for the managers, ‘Four Seasons’ profiling with Steve O’Smotherly from ‘Now that’s Different’ for all, and some group-introduction work for the interns and their managers to get to know each other, and get to know us at The Rank Foundation.

We were genuinely impressed at the enthusiasm, vigour and proactive nature of all of the interns, and we are excited to see what they will achieve over the next year.

Time to Shine Residential – Windermere

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The 2017 Time to Shine Interns are now 6 months into their internships at their organisations, so The Rank Foundation run a ‘halfway point’ residential to check in with the interns and their managers.

The residential was held at the very beautiful Low Wood Bay Hotel in Windermere, and three groups of interns and their managers visited for 24 hours over 3 days. Activities included film making with our good friends Vivid Echo (videos to follow on RankNet), preparing for the showcase at the Blackpool Conference in October, Mindful Leadership with Dr Jan Goss and pottery with Crafty Monkeys.

The weather was unfortunately not kind to us, so most of the activities were restricted to inside, but the groups appeared to have a good time engaging with the activities and getting to know each other a little more.

We would like to thank the interns and their managers for traveling the long journey, and engaging so well in the activities.

Group 1:

Ciaran Rooney (I) & Joe McNeill (M) – Ardoyne Youth Club

Niall O’Neill (I) & Billy Boyd (M) – BCSDN

Laura Cloughley (I) & Andrew McCreery (M) – Community Intercultural Programme

Jamie Gargan (I) & Catriona Clifford (M) – Extern Northern Ireland

Maxi Panayi (I) & Louisa Searle (M) – First Give

Jenny Geddis (I) & Sandara Kelso-Robb – Giving NI

Meghan Gilleece (I) & Martin Reid – GROW

Alex Dukes (I) & Sunil Birdy (M) – PACE Charitable Trust

Kerri-Ann Hughes (I) & Jude McCann (M) – Rural Support Services

David Thomas (I) & Sandeep Shah (M) – The Jack Petchey Foundation

Luke Billingham (I) & Jon McIntosh (M) – The Reach Foundation

Darren Smith (I) & Jillian Miskelly (M) – VOYPIC

Jack Bibb (I) & Caroline Redpath (M) – YouthAction NI

Group 2

Rebecca Thompson (I) & Matthew Powell (M) – Breaking Barriers

Rhiannon Griffiths (I) & Jeane Lowe (M) – Centre 63

Lloyd Newman (I) & Caroline Burkie (M) – Embercombe

James Rymer (I) & Terry Radcliffe (M) – Hop, Skip and Jump

Ruby Thorogood (I) & Clare Thomas (M) – Hope Support Services

Charlotte Young (I) & Steve Lennon (M) – Ocean Youth Trust

Elona Jetullahu (I) & Chris Wigmore (M) – Soft Touch Arts

Anna Newsum (I) & Victoria Costello (M) – Speakers Trust

Lloyd Marime (I) & Jenny Antrobus (M) – Spectrum Days

Alex Marshall (I) & Lydia Hodgins (M) – Student Hubs

Lizzie Dalley (I) & Rachael McCrea (M) – Venture Trust

Sam Whyte (I) & Liam Clark (M) – Vikings Sports Foundation

Group 3

Ethan Dalziel (I) & Carina Mitchell (M) – Advocating Together

Chloe Yates (I) & Michelle MacKay (M) – Bauer Media

Gregor Aitken (I) & Clare Heaton (M) – Cash for Kids

Norrie Miller (I) & Damon Herd (M) – Dundee Comics

Max Chase (I) & Nick Parr (M) – Dundee Rep & Scottish Dance Theatre

Badar Khan (I) & Brigitta Lazslo (M) – HANA

Katie Young (I) & Dave Rawding (M) – Rank Representatives for Hull

Jodie McAlpin (I) & Mike Thompson (M) – HYST

Jasmine Wood (I) & Jan Garril (M) – Two Ridings Community Forum

Nikolaos Xypolitis (I) & Lesley Caldwell (M) – Volunteer Centre Dundee 

Gillian Kelly (I) & David Dorward (M) – Rank Representatives in Dundee

Shortlisted for the Charity Awards!

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We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the ‘Grantmaking and Funding’ accolade in The Charity Awards 2017 for our Time to Shine Programme.

The Time to Shine programme has been amended and refined over the last seven years in line with feedback from the two main beneficiary groups, the charities and the interns. To date it has supported 180 interns in 120 different charities and social enterprises. All interns come to the programme from an underemployed starting point and bring significant and widespread life experience. They include young ex-offenders, people with disabilities, those with higher degrees and former young carers.

Their success on the programme is based on their skills set matching directly with the charity’s challenge. For some the programme offers the opportunity to develop confidence skills in a safe environment.

The value of the interns is shown by the number who have remained with their host charity. From those employed in 2016, half are staying with the host charity, 30 per cent have secured employment elsewhere, and 20 per cent have gone on to further study. All are no longer underemployed.

The Charity Awards, is the charity world’s longest-running, biggest and best-known awards ceremony. This year’s charities have been judged by an independent panel of charity leaders as having demonstrated outstanding best practice which other organisations can learn from.

The winner of the Grantmaking and Funding Award and the other nine category winners, plus the recipients of the Overall Award for Excellence and the Outstanding Achievement Award will be announced at a black-tie dinner on 8 June, held in the grounds of the Tower of London.

The evening will be hosted by BBC presenter Louise Minchin, who will be joined by representatives of the shortlisted charities, as well as leaders from Britain’s best known and best loved charities.

Julian Chislett, Chief Executive of Civil Society Media, which organises the Charity Awards, congratulated all the shortlisted charities on making the highly-coveted shortlist. He said: “The standard of entries this year was incredible, and the charities we shortlist remain a constant inspiration to all of us. Our rigorous judging process singles out those charities with the most innovative ideas and the most inspirational approaches to delivering maximum impact.”

Alexander Peter – T2S and Conference Review

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My Dear Time to Shiners, Class of 2016,

What a year we’ve had! From that trepidatious first encounter in the bitter month of January up in Morecambe, to the serenity of Lake Windermere and finally on to the buzzing and blustery city of Blackpool (it’s a wonder people only chose to sample the night life of the first of these three and not the last), our tour of the ‘Hotels of the North’ is complete.

Over the past nine months we have all had the opportunity to engage with a sector of society that strives to support marginalised people. From film making and fundraising, to events management, being the ‘Jack of all trades’ and the start of a hopefully illustrious career as a chimney sweeper! We have, thanks to the Time to Shine Programme, each contributed to the important work that our organisations undertake on a daily basis.

This last conference in Blackpool brought our Time to Shine programme to a close in the best possible way. By gathering together the whole Rank Foundation family we were able to meet with the people who make up the Rank network (now helpfully available online through their new initiative RankNet). At the conference we: received mentor training; learned, through our respective showcases, more about the work that the Time to Shine programme has enabled each of us to do; attended informative workshops which gave us further insight into matters of importance to the social sector such as fundraising, pitching, and social media to name a few; and we met some of the inspiring people from across this country who are driving social change and championing a vision of Britain that puts mutual understanding and support before self-interest and disunity.

At the heart of this vision of Britain is empathy. Empathy is the driving force of the social sector. It is certainly the reason I applied for Red Balloon; the reason I have, at times, worked late into the night; the reason I fill in fundraising application after fundraising application after fundraising application. As we watch the run-up to the US elections, a race that has been marked by its distinct unempathetic rhetoric, I thought I would turn to the thoughts of the incumbent President, Barack Obama. In the chapter entitled Values in Obama’s book The Audacity of Hope, he mentions the importance of empathy in today’s world. There is a line that I think resonates particularly well with my experiences in the social sector. Obama writes, ‘Talk is cheap; like any value, empathy must be acted upon.’ Taking action is key to the work we do and the purpose of each organisation. As Siobhan said in our mentoring session, it is no wonder that there are so many ‘Activists’ amongst us! And based on what I have heard from everyone about their year, we have all been very busy getting stuck in, organizing events, activities etc.

But, alas, all good things come to an end and so must our journey as ‘Time to Shiners’. It has been a fantastic year and, like I said last Thursday night, one that I shall not forget. Thank you to each and every intern for being brilliant and a barrel of laughs (see you at Blackpool next year for T2S 2K16 reunion?); thank you to the Rank Foundation (in particular Helen and Caroline) for your tireless work and support throughout the year; and thank you to the line managers for initiating us so well into this world.

As we all move on either to pastures new or to a permanent position in our respective organisations, I should like to leave you with a quote from ‘Little Gidding’, one of four poems comprising T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets:

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.

Whilst this year of the Time to Shine Programme is over, we now pass the baton on to the next crop of ‘Time to Shiners’ who will bring, in another voice, new and innovative ideas that will support their organisations, enabling them to address and fill development gaps, and have a fantastic time doing it.

We, my friends, are the future of the social sector. We are the leaders who, thanks to this year, will be able to carry forward what we have learned and ensure that, wherever we end up, the disadvantaged people whom we have supported this year will always have their voices heard. The Rank Foundation has supported us thus far; now it is up to us.

Alex Peter (Time to Shine Intern, 2016)