To have a look at what happened in last years AGM please have a look here for more details on the report.

(Thursday 20^th October 2011)

I was interviewed by Phil Richards on his radio show “Phil Richards in the Morning” on Radio Verulam on Thursday 20^th October 2011. It was the first time I’d ever been on the radio but I wasn’t at all nervous, I just talked about the work of Hertfordshire PASS. This focussed mainly on our two major projects, WorkABILITY and EmployerABILITY.

It went so well, in fact, that they asked me to do another slot on Wednesday 23^rd November! It was a good example of how I’ve overcome my barrier of talking to unfamiliar people on the phone over the last few years, this took me a very long time but I’m completely comfortable with it these days.

Report done by Patrick.

Hertfordshire PASS directly influences the government’s Apprenticeship Bill: go to the link.

Enjoy the Video!

Give us your money….and get it all back from us….’ through a Charitable Bond.

Charitable Bonds are a new way of giving money to Hertfordshire PASS to support its excellent work – and getting all of it back ( – and a bit more, if you want it). You don’t believe this is true – do you???

Please read more on the ‘Supporting us with a charitable bond from Allia’  or click the button on PASS’s home page to find out.

Nigel Fenner is manager of Hertfordshire PASS, a user-driven charity using employment and self-directed support to enable disabled people to live more independently.

He was given a grant from Social Enterprise East of England (SEEE) to write a paper (representing his views alone) on “User-driven social enterprise” based on his experiences of working with disabled people.

Summary

The person-system-role framework is considered an appropriate framework to understand user-driven social enterprises.

• The starting point for ‘user-driven social enterprise’, are the PERSONAL LIVED EXPERIENCES of ‘users’ and those who work with or for them, and those who don’t, because they are ‘scared, frightened, or ignorant of disability’.
• In transforming ‘users’ into ‘drivers of social enterprise’ it is important to focus on key ROLES, such as citizen, co-producer, expert by experience, and those who collaborate with them, such as “power sharer” and so on.
• Such personal lived experiences and the roles people strive to take up are set in a context or SYSTEM defined by the system’s purpose or aim.

In applying this person-system-role framework to case studies largely focussing on disabled people striving to be independent, the authors have identified the following main findings and conclusions for establishing and developing „user-driven social enterprise‟. These include the importance of

• Using the ‘person-system-role’ framework to understand and develop userdriven social enterprises,
• Valuing the lived experience of disability especially in relation to poverty and unemployment, and citizenship,
• Using such lived experience to promote sharing and networking, and to clarify the purpose of organisations,
• Exploring co-production as a catalyst for bringing together ‘user-lead’ and ‘social enterprise’, and
• Exploring and developing the means to measure and validate user-driven social enterprise.

Download the Paper ‘User Driven Social Enterprise’

To celebrate our 10th birthday we want to find…

• 10 young disabled people and appoint them as apprentices, and place them at
• suitable projects and placements with local employers across Hertfordshire, and
• support them with mentors.

This is our ‘10 pass TEN’ challenge and we hope you can help…

The 10 apprentices we want to appoint in 2010 will join the 6 apprentices already employed by Hertfordshire PASS WorkABILITY project.

Download our 10 pass TEN leaflet »