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Category: Youth

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Homes and Horizons project wins prestigious MJ Award

26/06/2023

Homes and Horizons colleagues from Somerset Council, Shaw Trust and the NHS in Somerset are celebrating after winning a prestigious Municipal Journal (MJ) Award for a partnership project delivering children’s homes across Somerset.The MJ awards is the biggest annual awards ceremony for local government and announced winners at a live ceremony in London on 23 June 2023. Somerset Council and its partners – care providers Homes2Inspire (part of national charity, Shaw Trust) and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust – won the ‘Innovation in

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Why we created an art exhibition

14/04/2023

Chris Luck CB MBE, CEO of Shaw Trust Group, has recently shared his thoughts about our Inspired by Hope art exhibition.As part of Shaw Trust’s 40th anniversary celebrations we hosted an art exhibition, Inspired by Hope, with more than 70 works created by children and young people we support through our children’s services and from colleagues with lived experience of care.Although a laudable project in its own right, why, did we do it?For us it epitomised Shaw Trust’s Homes to Inspire approach of

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Matrix success for Shaw Trust teams

11/01/2023

We are delighted to announce that our Children and Young People\’s Services (CYPS) team and Ixion team have maintained their Matrix accreditation. External assessors carried out surveillance visits in November and December 2022, and confirmed that CYPS and Ixion continue to maintain the Matrix standard.  CYPS successThere were clear areas for strength identified across the accreditation, including: Leadership and clear direction. Colleagues understand the vision, values and purpose of the organisation and they know how to apply them in their work.