Our History

2015

Foundations

Bromley has a history of strong third sector and cross sector partnership working. The seed – for what became ‘Bromley Third Sector Enterprise’ – was a lottery funded information and advice partnership initiated by the local Age UK.

BTSE was formed in 2015 when 5 large local charities and 12 Associate Member charities came together under a Memorandum of Understanding to provide co-ordinated third sector support to local Integrated Care Networks (ICNs).

BTSE was soon seen as a key provider organisation within the Bromley ICNs.

Joint funding began in 2016 for

Care Navigation services led by Age UK Bromley & Greenwich
Dementia Support Hub led by Bromley, Lewisham & Greenwich Mind
Connect Well Bromley, a ‘social prescribing’ database led by Community Links Bromley.

2016

Joint Funding Begins

Joint funding began in 2016 for:

Care Navigation services led by Age UK Bromley & Greenwich
Dementia Support Hub led by Bromley, Lewisham & Greenwich Mind
Connect Well Bromley, a ‘social prescribing’ database led by Community Links Bromley.

2017

Strengthening BTSE as a “formal” provider

During 2017 we strengthened our partnership by registering as a community interest company (CIC).

August, 2017

Signing the Bromley Well contract

2017 was also the year Bromley Council and NHS South East London Clinical Commissioning Group (Bromley) selected BTSE as the preferred provider for one, large contract to deliver primary and secondary intervention services – to be known as Bromley Well.

In August 2017, this contract was formally awarded to BTSE and the new service – called Bromley Well – went live on 2 October 2017.

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Growing network, building services

Our original 5 partner charities continue to strengthen working relationships at every level and during these 3 years, we welcomed a further 44 not for profit organisations working alongside us as Associate Members.

We focussed on developing, mobilising and implementing the new Bromley Well services. This has involved immense efforts to embed the services with partner organisations as well as raise awareness across Bromley’s diverse communities.

2020

Strengthening governance

In November 2020 we became a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) following a year long development programme supported by Pilotlight.

This has enabled us to strengthen our governance as well as opening up potential for different funding and work streams.

We welcomed a new Board of Trustees to guide our future work.

And are delighted to be working with 56 Associate Members in the charity and voluntary sector as well as the original 5, founding charities.

2020 - 2022

COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic had a huge impact on our work and meant a further strengthening of our working relationships at all levels – from frontline to strategic longer term planning – and across all sectors.

We continued to build a strong external reputation by being both assertive and proud of the services that we can and do offer.

Autumn 2022

Reporting our impact

We published our Impact Report for 2021-22. Since Bromley Well started in 2017 we have helped over 29,000 residents, that’s 11% of adults in Bromley borough.

We strengthened our governance with new trustees and structures.

October 2022

New contract for Bromley Well

BTSE successfully re-tendered for the Bromley Well contract for a further five years from October 2022.

Our network of members has increased to 69 charities, all working to support the health and wellbeing of Bromley residents.

About Us

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Our Team

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Our Trustees

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