Future Focus Event - July 2022

On Friday the 1st of July we held a hybrid Future Focus Event with attendees online and in person. We were delighted that so many local authorities, partners, charities and even the Lord Mayor of Coventry could join us to hear about our innovations and plans for Penderels Trust in the upcoming months. 

Gary Jones, our Chief Executive Officer, presented 6 key focus areas for Penderels Trust going forward including the new payroll system. This will offer significantly more choice to payroll customers who will be able to upload timesheets to the self-service portal directly and view payslips as soon as they become available. 

Gary also spoke about our plans for the continued promotion and expansion of our new virtual PA Community Centre that we launched this year to provide support to PAs including access to local rooms with specific resources, training and support relevant to that area. 

We’re committed to improving the local communities where we work and will be expanding our impact through community days and offering our hybrid meeting room at Head Office for any third sector organisations in Coventry to use for free. This year we will also be transforming our outdoor space at Head Office into a garden, relaxation and outdoor working and meeting space. This will also be offered to local groups and organisations free of use. 

Among other initiatives regarding recruitment, we also announced the Beecham Family Award which will open for applications this summer. Grants of up to £500 will be available to people supported by Penderels Trust to be used to improve wellbeing. 

We will be releasing more information about our payroll system and how it will work as well as our Beecham Family Award when applications open in the upcoming weeks, so stay tuned! You can watch a recording of the presentation here.