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Speaking Up was a small Cambridge based charity that was mostly grant funded and running on very tight budgets. The organisation was focused on implementation which meant that it could not manage future growth effectively. At the same time, it had an ambitious leader and a powerful delivery model. The impetus for our involvement with Speaking Up was to help the organisation expand from its Cambridge based operation to become a positive and obvious choice for people with learning disabilities wanting speak up and represent themselves.
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To become a leading player in empowering people with learning disabilities, mental health problems or disabilities to take control of their own lives by:
- Extending their reach beyond Cambridgeshire and increasing the number of people helped five fold from 500 to 2,500.
- Tripling 2004/5 income to £2.5m by 2008/9
- Changing the proportion of earned income to other income, such as grants, from 1:2 to 2:1
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- Six-fold increase in the number of people who participated in a Speaking Up project or service, from 500 to more than 3,000 in 2006/07
- Thirty-fold growth in the number of people helped in 1-to-1 advocacy work, reaching a total of 1,865 people
- 53% annual growth in income, from £640,000 in 2003/4 to £2.3m in 2006/7, driven by several major advocacy contract wins.
- Increase in the proportion of earned income from 30% of total income in 2003/04 to over 60% in 2006/07
- Substantial expansion of advocacy projects from a single project in Cambridgeshire to 27 projects as of September 2007
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210,000 people have severe learning difficulties
30-fold increase in number of people helped in 1-to-1 advocacy work since partnering with Impetus
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