Cyrenians Cymru CYF (01171209): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2015-01-27
- Administrators' firm
- Begbies Traynor
- Formerly
- Swansea Cyrenians Limited
- Incorporated
- 1974-05-22
- Location
- Haverfordwest
- Industry
- 55900 Other accommodation
Why it went into administration
- Management failings / irregularities
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- Pension deficit
From the administrators' statement
“Swansea Cyrenians was founded in 1973 by Betty Willams who, with her husband, ran an all-night café in St Helen’s Road Noticing increasing numbers of rough sleepers she enlisted the help of the university and Swansea Corporation in securing a shared volunteer house to accommodate people who were homeless The name Cyrenians refers to Simon of Cyrene, who was ordered by the Romans to help Christ carry the cross, and carries the connotation of support for people as well as practical help The Swansea Cyrenians chanty remained a hostel provider until the early 1990s, and built up very good Iinks with the local community, schools and church groups, who would regularly support its work with homelessness through financial donations, harvest festivals etc
In the early 1990s the Cyrenians developed additional floating support services, to assist resettlement of people from its hostels With the advent of the National Lottery, funding opportunities increased and the charity was able to develop further projects to assist the re-integration of homeless people into the community These included a furniture recycling and resettlement scheme, a youth homelessness project and an arts project The advent of the Weish Assembly brought a new awareness of the role of chanties and the third sector in tackling poverty, that the old Welsh Office had never had, and a more productive dialogue about supporting the very vuinerable
The end of the century brought the 1999 to 2006 Objective One European Structural Funds programme to West Wales and the Valleys, and the Cyrenians was able to build upon its projects to develop training and support towards employment This was further developed with the 2007-13 Convergence Programme, with the Cyrenians Supported Employment and Training (CSET) project, which won many awards and was the most successful third sector employability project Over 1500 people were helped into work At the end of 2014 the Cyrenians were running 10 projects for the very poorest and most isolated in society, as follows
Administrators' statement of proposals (2015-04-01) · Companies House register