Trevor's academic achievements have also caught the attention of the School for Social Entrepreneurs and the Flax Trust. He too will be awarded recognition at the Flax Trust Superbowl Ball on 10th February 2006.
Trevor Wright joined the Bryson House eighteen years ago to work on the Action for Community Employment programme. He continued to take on new roles with increasing responsibility, and was appointed a senior manager in 1999. In 2001 he graduated from Queen’s University with a Masters of Social Sciences in Organisation & Management.
Since 2003 Trevor has managed the Bryson House School’s Education Programme, and the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme distribution programme on behalf of Belfast City Council. He was appointed MBE in December 2001 for services to the disadvantaged.
Bryson House is currently developing a number of new social enterprises, including a white goods recycling scheme, the development of the Crumlin Road Gaol into a community resource, and making the transition in its environmental education programme from being project-funding dependent, to provision on a fee-for-service basis.
The charity anticipates its annual turnover will exceed £15million next year. Bryson House is one of Northern Ireland’s largest charities. It employs more than 500 people and its annual turnover this year is expected to reach £13 million. More than 75% of its revenue is generated through public sector contracts awarded on a competitive basis.
A pioneer in its field, Bryson House is an award-winning social enterprise. It won a special commendation in the 2005 New Statesman-sponsored Upstarts Awards recognizing organizations that prioritise social goals above the need to maximize profits while employing ethical business practices. More recently, the charity was a UK winner in the Social Enterprise Coalition’s prestigious “Enterprising Solutions” Awards.
This year Bryson House celebrates its centenary. Founded in 1906 to address poverty in Belfast, it has evolved into an organisation with an ambitious agenda for social change. The organisation’s primary aim of changing peoples’ lives for the better is manifest in its more than thirty diverse projects. Every year it helps around 400,000 people in some of Northern Ireland’s most socially deprived areas by providing social care, helping families in crisis, providing training for employment, creating new jobs and improving local environments.
