Pro
Bono O.R. – enabling managers to make more effective decisions
Pro
Bono O.R. is a scheme operated by The OR Society that places professional
analysts in short term projects with third sector organisations in the UK.
Projects
require skilled professionals who work in operational research, analytics or
related professions. If you have the
skills required for a project, we’d love to hear from you.
Please
find details of a new project below that we are seeking a volunteer(s) for:
Bullion Community Resource Centre
Information
about the organisation:
Charitable objectives: to initiate and support action to change lives,
strengthen communities and challenge inequalities across Chester-le-Street and
the wider surrounding area.
Main activities of the
organisation: Bullion Hall is a community centre which hosts activities e.g. parent
and toddler groups for approx. 800 people per weeks as well as providing office
space to a number of local charities. Planning permission has been granted to
extend the building (cost £600k) and are currently exploring how we can take
this forward. In November we took on a community café operating in Bullion Hall
since 2005 from Durham County Council. We now employ a care coordinator and
have responsibility for service users (adults with learning disabilities)
referred by DCC for which we are paid. We need to ensure that this café can
operate a surplus
Project summary:
Project: Demonstrating impact: To examine the activities that currently take
place in our community centre and identify how these impact upon participants
and whether this can be illustrated as a financial return so that we can
present this evidence to funders and commissioners. (Happy for the volunteer to
decide on the best approach).
Time commitment: approx. 5 days
Location: County
Durham, DH2 2DW (Mix of onsite and offsite meeting)
Please
read
project scope and if you feel you
are able to offer your assistance please complete the application
form and return to me along with your CV by midday on Thursday 26th May.
I look
forward to hearing from you and once again thank you for your help and support.
For further information about the scheme
please visit: http://www.theorsociety.com/Pages/Probono/Probono.aspx
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