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Joint staff announcement w/c 2 December 2013
Announcement
On 1st December 2013 ownership of YMCA Training transferred to Central YMCA which means that YMCA Training has become part of the Central YMCA group of operations
Welcome!
About Central YMCA
The World’s founding YMCA, established in 1844.
You join five operations:
Awarding qualifications
Training fitness professionals – including apprenticeships,
Performing in schools,
Publishing to the public
Plus, the flagship London YMCA Club
About Central YMCA
1. Work with approx 60,000 individuals annually
2. Combined turnover £10 million
3. Around 150 staff and 200 volunteers
4. Assets and reserves of over £32million
5. In most areas competes as a social enterprise
Why Central YMCA and YMCA Training have been drawn together – vision
1. We are passionate about creating successful
futures for young people and those needing
additional support
2. We are both heavily into education, nationally and
internationally, and we want to do more
3. We are both YMCAs, in name, ambition and values
4. There is obvious synergy
Why Central YMCA and YMCA Training have been drawn together - tactical
1. Complementary aspirations, services and products, and
infrastructure.
2. Competing in highly competitive and increasingly
commercial marketplaces
3. We recognised that together we can be stronger
Immediately we are
1. A leading educational charity and national training
provider.
2. With 520 dedicated staff in 25 locations
3. Impacting on the lives of over 75k individuals
4. Sharing aims to inspire, develop and transform
lives, with a focus on young people.
Our Challenge as a combined organisation is to create
1. An infrastructure capable of delivering a market leading service
standard, cost effectively
2. Business practices and investment capable of securing and
advancing our position within the education sector
3. A profile and ability to influence national policy and key decision
makers
We aim to become
• We aim to be a leading educational charity recognised for our
• Vision• Impact• Quality• Outcomes • Reach
What next - Planning assumptions
• The new entity will incorporate the existing organisations
and operations in the way that best reflects their areas of
expertise and optimises the potential benefits of a merger
• We will take time to consider the best ways to
progress
Integration
• CYQ must remain a discrete entity and within the
parent charity
• Training functions (YMCAfit and YMCA Training) will,
at some point, be brought together into a single
operation, under one board.
• Non-training services will remain discrete operations
of Central YMCA
New org chart
12 month integration outline
• Existing reporting lines, approval processes
remain unchanged for the moment.
• Synergies and efficiencies will be investigated and
plans (including those for investment) identified
during 2014
• An integration project team is being formed and will
involve staff from YMCA Training and Central YMCA
Leadership Integration team:
• Rosi Prescott – CEO, Central YMCA (chair)– Andy Chesters – FD, Central YMCA– David Thompson – DCEO, Central YMCA– Anne Linsey – MD – YMCA Training – Jon Forde – Director of HR, Central YMCA
Additional staff will be co opted onto integration
workgroups over the coming weeks and months.
1. Employee engagement and communication is key,
starting today!
2. Wider staff groups will have a role in the planning
3. Rosi and Anne will be on the road visiting all
centres starting in January
4. We welcome comments and questions
