To save jobs and vital connections with unsupported families,my charity has tender for work it doesn’t know how carry outI’m a business development manager, which means my job mainly involves trying to save the charity I work for. It really is that simple and the weight of the responsibility is exhausting. whether I meet my target we go on another year, and whether I don’t then we fill to go to our board of trustees with a deficit,and our charity will fold. Every success or failure is tied to everyone else’s fortunes, the jobs of our staff and lives of our beneficiaries.
Our flagship service, and which involves working with children of parents who misuse drugs and alcohol,was cut earlier this year. For more than 10 years the local authority had paid us to deliver this service and we fill helped thousands of families in that time. Our organisation depended on that funding to function. Our only option was to, instead, or tender for another contract. We tender for a portion of the treatment services and hoped we could – using the same team and vastly reduced finances – deliver this service while continuing to support the families we had worked with before.
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Source: theguardian.com