Looking Good Feeling Good is an award winning programme developed in partnership with the NHS. Unity in Community is helping to develop the Looking Good Feeling Good programme – combining healthy eating with exercise – for additional groups.
We are seeking to develop the success of the HU6 Community Allotments project with Looking Good Feeling Good to provide a new scheme – taking food from garden to table as an integrated process. The Allotments recently won a highly commended CityWide award and won the Northern Area first prize in the Hull in Bloom competition.
Unity in Community has revamped the computer suite at 501 Endike Lane with UK Online funding. The revitalised computer suite will be used to support training in the community.
Unity Contracts is an emerging social enterprise, under the management of Unity in Community the Development Trust for Northern Hull. The enterprise supports local residents in paid employment and offers trainees and New Deal participants a range of opportunities for skills upgrading based on hands-on work experience, linking to their personal development to move them forward into employment, training or educational opportunities.
As contractors to Hull City Council; Housing Associations; Social Services; other Development Trusts; Community Groups/Organisations, Residents and Tenants across the city, Unity Contracts provides a range of services in Painting and Decorating; Joinery/Small Repairs; Fencing Repairs/Renewals, and Garden maintenance services. All work is closely supervised, with quality inspections for work-in-progress and for completed works; quotations for work are provided free and without obligation.
Unity in Community is committed to further develop the services provided by Unity Contracts, by widening the services offered to customers and to meet the goals set by government of sustainable community enterprise that allows local job creation and local delivery of services in the community by the community.
If you would like further information on the services available from Unity Contracts, or wish to receive a free quotation for any work you may have, please contact Dennis Woods.
Four acres of the old Leo Schultz school site are to be developed as a Social Enterprise Park. This will provide 13 business units creating 70 jobs – with a focus on environmental businesses and social enterprises. The Park will include “back office” services (eg book-keeping, marketing) to support new businesses. Unity Contracts will move here as an anchor tenant.
This project has applied for funding to the European Regional Development Fund (administered by Yorkshire Forward) and the Working Neighbourhood Fund.
You can download a copy of a document outlining the plans here.
The two sites left to Unity in Community as a legacy of the North Hull Housing Action Trust – 501 Endike Lane and 147 Ellerburn Ave - have reached the end of their design life. They will be replaced to provide HQ facilities for Unity in Community, social housing and community facilities.