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Jan Burn

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Jan is one of the founding directors of Kingfisher Treasure Seekers. Jan's passions of creativity, innovation and above all else, people are evident in the role she has at Treasure Seekers.

Published: 26th September, 2017

Updated: 30th September, 2017

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Building Stronger Communities

People who are a fully participating member of community life have better support networks, are more resilient, have a higher sense of self worth and generally a greater sense of wellbeing.

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We help build stronger communities through:

  • Training and equipping leaders from all cohorts
  • Supporting activities in local communities to be purposeful and sustainable
  • Growing in understanding towards inclusivity
  • Developing key social skills to enhance community cohesion
  • Bringing people together - removing social isolation
  • Enabling people to sustain long term relationships
  • Helping people understand their place in community life

These themes run throughout most of our groups and activities but some specific examples include: 

  • Coffee Morning
  • Leadership First Steps
  • Better Friendships and Relationships

Published: 30th September, 2017

Updated: 29th May, 2019

Author: Katie Tucker

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Better Economic Outcomes

As we support people to improve their economic wellbeing we see real and lasting life transformation.

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We see people's economic outcomes improve as we: 

  • Upskill people for work
  • Change attitudes towards work
  • Empower people to be responsible for their own financial management

Examples of our work in these areas include:

  • Skills 4 work
  • Treasure Seekers Gift Shop
  • Better Budgeting
  • The Cavern
  • Volunteering

Published: 30th September, 2017

Author: Katie Tucker

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Improved Mental Health

The state of people's mental health can have far reaching impacts on their lives. We therefore seek to improve people's mental health.

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We seek to improve mental health through: 

  • Building resilience
  • Improving people's sense of self worth
  • Improving self-confidence
  • Growing a sense of purpose and contribution
  • Improving access to early intervention and prevention work

These themes run throughout most of our groups and activities but some specific examples include: 

  • Springboard
  • Music Room
  • Soul Talk
  • Support at The Cavern

Published: 30th September, 2017

Updated: 16th November, 2017

Author: Katie Tucker

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Better Physical Health

A major barrier to people becoming 'the best version of themselves' is poor physical health. We seek to improve people's physical health through training and empowering people to take charge of their own health.

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We are seeking to enable people to: 

  • Access health services
  • Be empowered to manage their own health
  • Access prevention and early intervention work

These themes run throughout most of our groups and activities but some specific examples include: 

  • Beat the Bugs
  • National Diabetes Prevention Programme

Published: 30th September, 2017

Updated: 8th March, 2018

Author: Katie Tucker

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Training Courses

We can offer a range of courses which we can run in school for groups of students or we can train and resource staff within the school to run the sessions.

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We can offer various courses to either students or parents as appropriate: 

  • Leadership First Steps - mostly covering the skills needed for self-leadership which ensures an authentic leadership of others. 
  • Building Better Relationships - looking at what constitutes a healthy relationship. This course has been designed to support people to be less vulnerable to CSE, 'mate' hate crime, or being exploited in any other way. It gives people the tools to spot a toxic relationship and supports people in developing healthy relationships. 
  • Better Budgeting - A short course to help people manage money more effectively
  • Springboard - A confidence building course
  • Beat the Bugs - A course, developed with Public Health England, to help people stay healthy and to self-care when ill. 

We can train staff in schools to run these courses, and all resources will soon be available to order from this website enabling you to run them as frequently and for as small a group as needed. 

For more information please contact us. 

Published: 31st March, 2018

Author: Katie Tucker

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Mentoring

We can offer a limited mentoring service to young people who frequently access The Cavern.

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For those students accessing The Cavern independently, we can offer a limited mentoring service. This service is available particularly for those students who have one or more risk factors; on the edge of criminality, vulnerable to CSE or domestic violence, have mental health problems and are not being supported elsewhere or are homeless.. 

We work closely with Gloucestershire Constabulary and are keen to work in partnership with schools as appropriate, in order to ensure consistency of approach. 

Please contact us for more information.

Published: 31st March, 2018

Author: Katie Tucker

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Interview Practice

We currently support several schools with mock interviews.

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Our staff can provide interview practice for students and give helpful, critical but kind feedback to help enhance future interview success. 

Please contact us should you want to discuss potential mock interviews. 

Published: 31st March, 2018

Author: Katie Tucker

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Placements within School Time

We have, with great success, partnered with local schools to create placement programmes for individuals struggling to maintain attendance or with extremely poor attainment.

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These programmes are designed to give individuals a different learning environment whereby we can particularly focus on building confidence, social and communication skills, work based skills and designed to maximise attendance. We work closely with schools to ensure it is fit for purpose and ensure constant communication. We can also work with a multi-agency approach, attending professionals meetings as necessary. 

We have utilised this approach with young people in the process of gender transition. Students have found it helpful to spend some time in a supportive space apart from classmates. This helps to build confidence and allows space for the young person to feel more comfortable before attending school. 

Please contact us if you want to talk through whether this approach may be of benefit. 

Published: 31st March, 2018

Author: Katie Tucker

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Work Experience

Kingfisher Treasure Seekers runs around 30 different activities/projects which are geared towards different cohorts. We can usually find a meaningful work experience placement for everyone!

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We are especially keen to support students who lack confidence, struggle with aspirational thinking or who are struggle to find a fit. Our organisation is passionate about volunteering and supporting volunteers to get the most out of any placement. We won the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service in 2017 which indicates the difference our volunteers make to the local community.

We have all necessary policies and procedures in place (which can be viewed/sent upon request) to ensure a safe and productive work experience/voluntary placement. 

People can apply for work experience or volunteering here or contact us if you want to discuss a possible placement. 

Published: 31st March, 2018

Author: Katie Tucker

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Business Class Talks

Kingfisher Treasure Seekers is a social enterprise, based in Gloucester. We can speak to students to inform and hopefully inspire as to another model of business.

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Kingfisher Treasure Seekers was incorporated in June 2012 as a social enterprise. We began with just one part time member of staff and since then have seen our organisation grow and develop. It has not always been easy, but seeing lives changed on a daily basis helps keep us on track. We are passionate about the model of social enterprise and love sharing with business men and women of the future this alternative to for-profit business models.

Contact us with your requirements and we would love to come and share our experiences. 

Published: 31st March, 2018

Author: Katie Tucker

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Assemblies

Our staff can deliver assemblies on a range of topics.. These can be tailored to individual school requirements, can be for any age and any group size.

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Some example assembly topics could include: 

  • Strategies for building good mental health
  • Supporting friends who are struggling with mental health
  • Self-esteem/self-worth
  • Learning disability awareness/social inclusion
  • Social entrepreneurship
  • The benefits of volunteering

We are also open to suggestions if we have a particular need which you feel we could meet. 

Depending on available time/appropriateness our assemblies/talks can include media elements and could be partially delivered by people with lived experience (eg Learning disability awareness)

Contact us if you would like to discuss a potential assembly or group talk. 

Published: 31st March, 2018

Author: Katie Tucker

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