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JUNE 2020
MTCIC has been awarded a grant from Big Lottery to support peoples mental health due to COVID 19. This grant is for people who now do not have the ability to pay for our Acorn Service. To access this funding please contact 01284 750096.
JUNE 2017
We have moved!!
From the 1st June MTCIC moved our Bury St Edmunds base into our own premises at Acorn House, 8a Looms Lane, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 1HE.
We would like to thank the Big Lottery, St Edmundsbury Borough Council and Suffolk Foundation Trust for grants to enable us to equip our therapy and training rooms.
All client areas are on the ground floor, with easy disable access.
contact numbers and emails remain unchanged
January 2017
Big Issue Invest announces launch of Impact Loans England
New investment programme managed by Big Issue Invest, the social investment arm of The Big Issue
Impact Loans England programme is funded by Access - The Foundation for Social Investment and is designed to help charities and social enterprises
Big Issue Invest has launched Impact Loans England, a new £5 million lending scheme aimed at enabling social enterprises to access loan funding of between £20,000 and £150,000. The programme is funded by Access - The Foundation for Social Investment, with finance being provided by its partners Big Lottery Fund and Big Society Capital.
The Impact Loans England programme is now available to organisations across England with the £5 million to lend over the next three years. The funding is available to organisations keen to do more of the good work they do - whether it's buying equipment, hiring new talent, or progressing with business development plans.
Daniel Wilson-Dodd, Head of Lending at Big Issue Invest says, "A lot of great organisations struggle to access small and medium-sized loans, so we wanted to provide support for those exciting social enterprises and charities."
One of the first organisations to take advantage of the new finance scheme is MTCIC, a community Interest company, that provide counselling and mental health therapies to the population of East Anglia. It also provides training learning and development opportunities for individuals wanting employment within the field of wellbeing and mental health.
"This loan has given us the opportunity to develop our business plan to providing digital online services. It will enable us to expand our workforce so that we are better placed to work collaboratively with partner organisations, not only with social enterprises and charities, but with the private and statutory sector too. This offers MTCIC the security to build for the future." says Sue Jay MBE, Managing Director at MTCIC.
The Impact Loans England programme is a continuation of what Big Issue Invest has been doing over the past few years in other schemes aimed at helping social enterprises grow, often by accessing finance for the very first time.
Big Issue Invest anticipates the popularity of this programme and is planning to deliver a deal a week for the first six months after launch. Applications for Impact Loans England are now open. Visit bigissueinvest.com or email impactloansengland@bigissueinvest.com. A Twitter Q&A with @BigIssueInvest will be held in February, using the tag #ADealAWeek.
August 2015
People that have suffered sexual abuse can now be offered therapy within our Acorn Counselling Service. Volunteer Counsellors have been trained using money provided by Safer Suffolk Fund. To find out more call 01284 750096
July 2015
Awards for All from the Big Lottery have awarded MTCIC £9,000 to support people needing Longer Term Counselling on low income. This work will be delivered by our Acorn Counselling Service.
If you are on a low income and would like to find out more please contact us on 01284 750096 appointments are being offered in Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich.
April 2015
Safer Suffolk Fund award MTCIC £15,800 to train our volunteer counsellors in specific sexual abuse counselling and to offer 30 clients this therapy.
9th November 2014
Come and see MTCIC at the Bury St Edmunds Christmas light switch on on 20th November.
We will have lots of useful information from us and other local organisations to.
28th August 2014
The Autumn sees the start of the CPD Lectures and training on offer from MTCIC
An Indroduction to working with Gender identity presented by Madison Amy Webb Tuesday 23rd Sept 2-4pm Ipswich
Human Toolbox Practitioner training in association with Lindy Wheeler 27th & 28th September Bury St Edmunds
How to work with Eating Disorder presented by Yvonne Green Tuesday 14th October 2-4pm Ipswich
Find out more from our Lecture page LECTURES
20th November 2013
We have just completed the first year of a new project for young people, How I Feel. This is an online support and information service for 11 to 25 year olds funded by Children in Need and Suffolk County Council check it out at www.howifeel.org.uk
30th July 2012
- The Social Enterprise Mark is the only certification authority for social enterprises. The Mark identifies businesses which meet defined criteria for social enterprise, and consumers recognise that businesses displaying the Mark are trading to benefit people and planet. Visit www.socialenterprisemark.org.uk to find out more
- The most widely adopted definition of social enterprise, used by organisations such as Social Enterprise UK and Rise, is from the Government's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (previously Department for Trade and Industry): "Social enterprises are businesses with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners." Social Enterprise: a strategy for success, 2001
- The Social Enterprise Mark Company is a Community Interest Company (CIC) Limited by shares. It is owned by Rise.
- Rise aims to establish a favourable environment for social enterprises to develop and flourish. www.riseforsocent.org.uk