Sailing adventure sponsorship opportunity available for local businesses
The Association Of Pension & Benefits Claimants Cic (THE ABC) SAILING ADVENTURE June 12th.
The ABC’s main aim is to help those receiving state pensions and state benefits. Our ABC website is a directory of organisations that help people on low incomes. Many of these organisations do not have a marketing budget and this is valuable work helping the offeree and those needing support. We have been building this directory with students from Essex University, Student Union, VTeam (volunteers). The results have been fantastic and as such we have formed the Achievers Club designed to inspire and reward students that excel while working with the ABC and while helping the community. Students get a Case Study and the completed internship details are added to their transcript. Everybody wins.
We are looking for a modest £150 to sponsor our first event a sailing trip on Westerly Griffin sailing cruiser from Brightlingsea to Rowhedge (the picturesque Anchor Pub) stopping over the period of an hour each side of the 14:25 high tide. This is to pay towards a fabulous buffet meal, and also light refreshments at the University Community Sailing Club in Brightlingsea. Our goal is to create a documentary film we can show students and we can show on the ABC website and on YouTube.
The ABC have other events lined up – a visit to the Houses of Parliament in the autumn, and a day next year at a Tank Museum, with a blast on tracked vehicles, taking part in archery as well as handling WW1 and WW2 weapons. A sponsor is welcome to attend the lunch and bring guests and take part in other Achievers Club events as a VIP supporter. Extra guest would need a per head additional amount.
This is a chance to reach out to students, promote good-works and encourage those working hard to gain valuable, realistic, work experience and training, while helping others.
ABOUT THE: ASSOCIATION OF PENSION & BENEFITS CLAIMANTS CIC (THE ABC)
The ABC’s main aim is to give those receiving state pensions and state benefits formal representation through the creation of programmes and initiatives that enable those on benefits to secure beneficial and gainful employment. Also, to manage their circumstances better, while managing on a low income.
This is our website: www.abcorg.net
Our ABC website is a directory of organisations that help people on low incomes. We have been building this up with students from Essex University, Student Union, VTeam (volunteers). We will be expanding this partnership in the autumn.
There are thousands of organisations ready to help people, but often these small organisations lack a marketing budget large enough to reach everyone who needs their services. Thus, this is a valuable service both for service offerees in the third-sector and to those needing assistance. We already have over seven hundred organisations in our directory, and our goal is to grow our directory in the UK and then internationally.
We aim not simply to signpost people, but to distribute inspiring ideas.
The ABC publish a constant news stream and we have over a thousand articles in our library. We also broadcast UK Parliament TV, Scottish Parliament TV and Europarl TV both recorded and live programming. The ABC are a trusted, informative source of information. We supply ideas and insights to the UK’s DWP Select Committee for example.
We give our students case studies and the Essex University Students Union gives students accreditation to add to their academic record. In the autumn (2017), we plan to recruit a much larger team.
The ABC run events for our interns, such as a sailing voyage up the River Colne and a Houses of Parliament trip is planned for the autumn. This is partly as an incentive, partly as a reward, and as a way of developing life-skills and furthering education and learning. We call this initiative ‘The Achievers Club’ and those who wish to contribute after leaving university are still eligible to take part.
Last year we had a respectable 50,000 website visits. We have 12,000 contacts and over forty-plus students who have worked with us. Seventeen of these students have been from Essex University. Students on our internships have gone on to become teachers and civil servants.
Our goal is to launch Work TV. The ABC’s ‘WorkTV‘ TV channel, is a project in the early stages. The magazine-style programming will offer a wide range of informative videos with programming featuring news and information about career opportunities, apprenticeships, government schemes, franchising opportunities, small business briefings and the self-employed. It will share tips and ideas and offer further education advice as well as featuring recruitment professionals and their services. Work TV will act as a resource for businesspeople, careers teachers and HR industry professionals and encourages work-seekers by sharing ideas while providing morale boosting and encouragement.
We are partners of the Electoral Commission encouraging young people to vote and we have other initiatives underway. We won a ‘Colins Award’ for one of our career opportunities, documentary videos.
Future trends predict humanity entering a world of automation and part of our work is to raise the image and esteem of those needing state help. Diminution in the press and media of those needing support is often counter-productive to those who want to get on. Simon Collyer, the ABC founder and CEO was interviewed for an Applecart Films documentary – ‘Poverty the Human Face’, a film which is currently in production: http://www.applecartfilms.com/productions.php.
The ABC are the alternative voice for our community, and aiming to create better outcomes for those on low incomes, wanting to improve their circumstances.
The ABC are members of the Institute of Fundraising, the CIC Association and other third sector associations. We started with a prestigious Millennium Award for Simon Collyer personally and BIG Lottery funding