Entrepreneurship, Profit and The Kibble Experience

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Entrepreneurship, Profit and The Kibble Experience

• Jim Mullan
• Enterprise Manager

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Reclaiming youthful offenders against the law

• Established 1859
• Governed by trustees
• Operating from original site
• Day to day operations are the responsibility of
  the Executive Directors

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The story so far..

• For most of the 20th century the organisation was
  100 grant funded by local or central government.
• From the 80s investment in Kibbles facilities
  was virtually non-existent.
• By the mid 90s the campus was running at 50
  occupancy.

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31.03.96
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The Entrepreneurial Board

• On 1st April 1996 Kibble entered the social
  market
• Focus on Excellence
• Creation of an organisation to make Miss Kibble
  proud
• Our aim, self-sufficiency

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The Social Enterprise story so far.

• Today, the Kibble Centre is the largest
  multi-service centre in the UK specialising in
  work with young people at risk.
• It provides a comprehensive range of education,
  training and social welfare services.
• It works with over 100 young people from across
  Scotland and N. England.

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The Numbers

• In 1996/97 Kibbles turnover was 1.8m, in
  2004/05 it was 9.7m
• Trading surplus year on year since 1996 has
  averaged 4 of turnover
• Grant assistance as a proportion of turnover is
  less than 7
• In 1996 Kibble employed 80 staff, in 2005 it
  employs 300 staff

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The Future

• Continuous Improvement
• New Service Development
• Spreading the Risk / Blended Income Streams
• The D word The Safe Centre

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The Lessons

• You cant help poor people if you are poor
  yourself !
• If the rate of change inside your organisation
  is less than the rate of change outside,the end
  is in sight.
• Dont flog a dead horse.
• Dont confuse a worthy cause with an opportunity
  to earn.
• A true understanding of what you do will help
  identify what else you can do.

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More Lessons

• If youre not 1st or 2nd, find somewhere you can
  be.
• Funny, the more I practise, the luckier I get
• Dont confuse Jimmy Johnstone with Alex Ferguson
• The Noah Principle / if you always do what you
  have always done, youll always get what youve
  already got

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To finish,

• Whether you believe you can,or whether you
  believe you cant, youre absolutely right
  
• Henry Ford